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Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)

Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a proactive cybersecurity approach of an organization's vulnerability threats. It focuses on continuously monitoring, assessing, prioritizing, resolving security posture and identifying improvements continuously.

Traditional cybersecurity methods rely on reactive measures, such as firewalls and antivirus software, to block threats.

Stages:

• Scoping

  Scoping entails identifying crucial assets to protect, and determining the risk associated with the assets.

• Discovery

  The Discovery involves identifying and cataloging vulnerable resources, such as hardware, software, databases, and network infrastructure. During this phase, businesses use a wide variety of IT discovery tools and methods to audit all their IT resources and find potential flaws and dangers, which often include conducting vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and other security audits.

• Prioritizing

  The prioritization evaluates the risk associated with each asset discovered in the discovery phase and ranks them based on their criticality to the business operations. Businesses often use a risk assessment methodology to analyze the severity and likelihood of each threat to their assets during this stage.

• Validation

  Security teams addressing the vulnerabilities and threats by priority into action and testing. This could involve adding additional safeguards, updating software, or changing security settings.

• Mobilization

  The Mobilization involves defining the scope of the initiative, setting goals and objectives, identifying key stakeholders and resources needed to support the effort, and, most importantly, conducting a readiness assessment to determine the organization’s current level of cybersecurity and exposure management maturity.