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Fri, October 31, 2025
The Unified Linkage Model: Reframing Cyber Risk in Practice
🔗The Unified Linkage Model (ULM) reframes cyber risk by focusing on the relationships — not just individual assets — that allow vulnerabilities and adversaries to propagate across systems. Drawing on the Okta 2023 support-credential compromise, the model highlights three structural linkage types: adjacency, inheritance and trustworthiness. ULM shifts analysis from topology or isolated CVE lists to the connective tissue that enables systemic exposure. Applied correctly, it clarifies prioritization, accelerates impact analysis and unifies threat and vulnerability data into actionable risk pathways.