The Road To Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) , Part 1: The Role Of Validation
Security Boulevard, Thursday, May 9th, 2024
Continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) is a formal program to manage cyber risk that allows organizations to enhance and optimize their overall cybersecurity posture.
As outlined by Gartner, CTEM offers a cyclical approach to finding and mitigating threat exposure-which is the accessibility and exploitability of digital and physical assets-in an ongoing, proactive, and prioritized way.
CTEM does this by unifying traditional and emerging security elements for monitoring, detection and response, threat hunting and intelligence, vulnerability management (VM), forensics, analysis, and reporting. While some new elements may be needed to support a CTEM program, the approach seeks to increase the return on investment (ROI) of tools organizations already have in place to improve the readiness, response, resilience, and efficacy of security operations.