9 Steps to Get CTEM on Your 2025 Budgetary Radar

November 6, 2024 at 06:45AM As budget season approaches, it’s crucial to prioritize Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) in cybersecurity. CTEM shifts from reactive to proactive threat management, enhancing defenses, reducing costs associated with breaches, and improving organizational resilience. Companies must present CTEM as key to managing business risks and securing long-term stability. ### Meeting … Read more

How to Get Going with CTEM When You Don’t Know Where to Start

October 4, 2024 at 06:00AM CTEM is a strategic framework to assess and manage cyber risk, consisting of stages like Scoping, Discovery, Prioritization, Validation, and Mobilization. Implementing CTEM can be complex initially, but understanding the stages and using the right tools can strengthen an organization’s security. XM Cyber offers a unified platform to simplify CTEM … Read more

Security Validation Firm Picus Security Raises $45 Million

September 19, 2024 at 08:36AM Security validation company Picus Security closed a $45 million growth investment round, reaching a total of $80 million raised. The company, with offices in Turkey and the United States, offers adversarial exposure validation solutions through an open platform, helping security teams evaluate and optimize their security posture. The funding will … Read more

Element Security Emerges From Stealth With CTEM Solution, $5M in Funding 

September 17, 2024 at 09:15AM Element Security, an Israeli startup founded in 2021 by Daniel Lublin and Omer Cohen, has raised $5 million in funding. The company has launched a cloud-based Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) platform and attracted global companies in finance, aviation, and automotive sectors. Element’s platform aims to identify and mitigate risks … Read more

NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and CTEM – Better Together

September 5, 2024 at 06:03AM The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), introduced in 2013, provides a voluntary framework to manage cyber risk by organizing and prioritizing security measures into five core functions. The latest version, CSF 2.0, emphasizes continuous improvement, broader enterprise risk management, and proactive cybersecurity. The CSF and Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) program … Read more

CTEM in the Spotlight: How Gartner’s New Categories Help to Manage Exposures

August 27, 2024 at 09:51AM Gartner’s 2024 Hype Cycle for Security Operations introduces key updates to Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). The report identifies three main categories: Threat Exposure Management, Exposure Assessment Platforms (EAP), and Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV). This reorganization aims to help enterprises navigate the security vendor landscape and prioritize vulnerabilities more effectively. … Read more

Automated Security Validation: One (Very Important) Part of a Complete CTEM Framework

August 8, 2024 at 07:45AM The article discusses the importance of Automated Security Validation (ASV) in cybersecurity strategies. It highlights ASV’s capabilities to provide a comprehensive view, prioritize vulnerabilities, scale across organizations, and align with regulatory frameworks. Additionally, it emphasizes the need to integrate ASV with the Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) framework to maximize … Read more

Blueprint for Success: Implementing a CTEM Operation

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 … Read more

Navigating the Threat Landscape: Understanding Exposure Management, Pentesting, Red Teaming and RBVM

April 29, 2024 at 07:48AM Today’s cyber threats are becoming increasingly complex, requiring better and more consolidated approaches. Exposure Management offers a comprehensive method to identify, evaluate, and address security weaknesses across an organization’s digital footprint. Contrasting it with other common approaches such as Penetration Testing, Red Teaming, Breach and Attack Simulation tools, and Risk-Based … Read more

CTEM 101 – Go Beyond Vulnerability Management with Continuous Threat Exposure Management

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 … Read more