Ebook
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM): What It Is and How to Build an Effective Program
This ebook explains Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), a proactive framework for continuously identifying, assessing, validating, and reducing cybersecurity risks across an organization's attack surface. Moving beyond traditional vulnerability management, CTEM expands risk assessment to include vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, security control gaps, and business context. The guide walks through Gartner's five-stage CTEM process—Scoping, Discovery, Prioritization, Validation, and Mobilization—and explains how each stage helps organizations build a repeatable, risk-based security program. It also explores how Zero Trust principles, exposure management, asset visibility, and contextual risk analysis improve remediation efforts and security decision-making. By integrating vulnera
