What Is Exposure Management? A New Blueprint For Modern Cyber Defense
SC Media, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Most of us are familiar with the concept of vulnerability management. But in recent years we've heard newer terms like cyber exposure, continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) and the more-encompassing exposure management.
What exactly is exposure management, and how is it different from CTEM? Broadly speaking, exposure management is an expansion of vulnerability management that covers other sorts of exploitable weaknesses, such as misconfigurations, compromised identities, excessive permissions, potential attack paths, shadow IT and forgotten assets.
"It goes beyond traditional vulnerability management by unifying business and risk contexts with threat intelligence to expose, prioritize and help you close vulnerabilities while reducing risk and shrinking your attack surface," explains a Tenable guidance page.