March 12, 2024 at 07:27AM
Organizations are increasingly considering establishing a Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) program to reduce cyber risk. The CTEM approach combines attack simulation, risk prioritization, and remediation guidance to identify and address the most urgent risks and vulnerabilities. CTEM offers advantages over alternative approaches, covering all assets and continuously discovering all types of exposures. For more information, refer to XM Cyber’s whitepaper on operationalizing the CTEM framework by Gartner®.
Based on the meeting notes, the main takeaways are:
– Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is gaining popularity as an approach to cyber risk management.
– CTEM focuses on identifying and prioritizing actionable risks to critical assets, providing actionable recommendations for fixing them, and continuously monitoring security posture.
– The CTEM program consists of five stages: Scoping, Discovery, Prioritization, Validation, and Mobilization.
– CTEM offers advantages over alternative approaches, such as covering all assets, continuously discovering all types of exposures, and providing real-world insights into the attacker view.
– Organizations can benefit from CTEM by quickly reducing overall risk, increasing the value of each remediation, improving alignment between security and IT teams, and fostering a common language of risk for Security and IT.
Additionally, XM Cyber is hosting a webinar featuring Gartner VP Analyst Pete Shoard about adopting the CTEM framework on March 27, with an on-demand link available for those who cannot join. For more information on getting started with a CTEM program, XM Cyber has a whitepaper available.