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Continuously manage exposure with a structured program that maps your entire attack surface, identifies and prioritizes the highest risk vulnerabilities and threats, and mobilizes action to combat the highest priority exposures.
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) – is a proactive and comprehensive approach to cybersecurity that continuously identifies, evaluates, and mitigates potential cyber threats and vulnerabilities. CTEM helps organizations stay ahead of the evolving cyber threat landscape, protect their valuable digital assets and data, and minimize the risk of data breaches, financial losses, and reputational damage.
How does Gartner define Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)?
According to Gartner, "CTEM is defined as a set of processes and capabilities that allows enterprises to continually and consistently evaluate the accessibility, exposure and exploitability of an enterprise’s digital and physical assets."
Gartner, Inc. · "Competitive Landscape: External Attack Surface Management", April 3, 2023
Achieve visibility across the entire attack surface
Modern organizations are agile – they continually add new systems, applications, and network devices.
In this era of digital transformation and cloud migration, with accelerated development schedules and greater complexity, your cyber landscape becomes a fertile ground for attackers to exploit.
As the attack surface rapidly expands and evolves, it becomes imperative for modern organizations to take the first crucial step in their exposure management program: gaining comprehensive visibility into their hybrid attack surface, and understanding the connections between applications, assets, and users.
In 2022 alone, a staggering number of over 25,000 new vulnerabilities have been identified. And known software vulnerabilities are not the only type of threat, but also misconfigurations and lack of security control coverage. Malicious attackers are capitalizing on these all these threats with increasingly sophisticated tools and techniques.
Our annual Vulnerability and Threat Trends Report takes an in-depth look at the forces that are reshaping cybersecurity around the world.
In an era of rapidly expanding threats, cybersecurity teams find themselves in a challenging situation. Talent shortages, budget constraints, and new regulatory demands have stretched them thin. However, amidst these challenges, prioritization becomes paramount. The real question is: how can you gain a comprehensive understanding of your organization’s vulnerabilities and determine the crucial steps to mitigate the biggest risks when valuable security data is scattered across isolated systems?
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Four phases of successful exposure management
Map the attack surface
Identify all potential targets through discovery and inventory of all assets, including endpoints, servers, network devices, infrastructure, user identities, and applications. Create a comprehensive and updated view of the entire hybrid attack surface with the ability to visualize and analyze it.
Contextualize the data
Discover all the exposures, including vulnerability scan results, misconfigurations, missing controls, and infrastructural flaws. Exposure is a much wider concept than vulnerability used to describe any threat, regardless of how it is created, that can be exploited. Many potential exposures and risks are not caused by vulnerabilities, for example a personal device that doesn’t have endpoint security; an OT device that can’t be upgraded; or a poorly configured firewall. These are not software defects, but they create huge openings.
Assess & prioritize the risk
Prioritize exactly what threats need to be addressed according to business importance and impact. Use contextual computations to consider not just the severity of the vulnerability, but also asset importance, asset exposure, and vulnerability exploitability; in order to prioritize what is most important to the business and achieve the greatest reduction of risk using scarce technical resources.
Combat the threat
Fight back against cyber threats. In addition to patching —and when patching is not practical or not possible — you need a wide range of possible mitigations like network segmentation, IPS signature updates, or firewall rule changes. And to measure and report on your CTEM program’s success, you need clear SLAs (Service Level Agreements) and financial metrics for contextualizing your exposure management reporting to management.
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