July 5, 2024 at 07:43AM
The evolving attack surface poses a significant challenge to business security. Gartner introduced Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) as a solution, predicting 3 times less breaches for organizations that prioritize it. CTEM offers a comprehensive view of the attack surface, emphasizes vulnerability management and validation, and urges organizations to adapt and continually refine their approach. #CTEM #Security #RiskManagement
Based on the meeting notes, it is evident that the focus of the discussion was on the challenges related to the evolving attack surface and the need for better security measures. The adoption of Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) framework, as coined by Gartner, was highlighted as a priority for organizations to improve security readiness and resilience.
The CTEM framework was broken down into three pillars:
1. Pillar #1: Expand visibility of the attack surface, encompassing internal, external, and cloud exposures, and obtaining a greater understanding of the real security risk profile.
2. Pillar #2: Level up vulnerability management by prioritizing exposures based on exploitability and risk impact on critical assets, rather than relying solely on CVSS scores or chronology.
3. Pillar #3: Validation, involving offensive testing methods to prevent the exploitation of security gaps and ensuring ongoing efficacy of security controls.
The framework was portrayed as an ongoing and agile cycle of discovery, mitigation, and validation, with a focus on always extending the scope of existing asset management and vulnerability management systems and putting validation at the center of the CTEM strategy.
The meeting notes also mentioned a recommendation to learn more about implementing a validation-first CTEM strategy with Pentera.
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