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CTEM as a service
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What is Continuous Threat Exposure Management?
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is an ongoing security program for identifying, validating, prioritizing and reducing the exposures that could be used to compromise your critical systems. It runs as a repeating cycle across five stages: scoping, discovery, prioritization, validation and mobilization.
CTEM extends past CVE lists and severity scores. Every exposure is assessed in context, which means answering four questions:
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Is it exploitable in your environment?
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Does it sit on a path to a critical asset?
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What would the business impact be?
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How effective are the controls already around it?
Assessment is continuous and covers vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, identity risks and cloud exposures across your infrastructure together, in one ranking.
CTEM as a Service gives you the platform, the specialists and the operational support to run that cycle.
The threat exposure challenge
Finding exposures isn't a challenge for most security teams who already have more findings than they can realistically fix. The real challenge is understanding which exposures create routes to critical assets, which ones are most likely to be exploited, and which remediations will reduce the greatest amount of risk.
Your team is no longer defending a single network perimeter. They operate across cloud platforms, SaaS applications, remote users, endpoints, identities, third-party connections, legacy infrastructure, and internet-facing assets. Every change can introduce new exposures, from misconfigured cloud services and excessive permissions to unpatched systems, unmanaged assets and insecure access paths.
Continuous exposure management gives you a continuous, risk-based way to identify exposures, validate attack paths and focus remediation where it matters most.
The reality of CTEM as a Service
CTEM as a Service is a fully managed exposure management service powered by the XM Cyber Continuous Exposure Management Platform and delivered by our cyber security experts.
The service helps you to discover exposures on a continuous basis, map attack paths, prioritize remediation and reduce the risk of compromise across complex IT environments. Rather than overwhelming teams with long lists of findings, the service identifies the exposures that contribute most to realistic attack scenarios and provides clear guidance on what to fix first.
Our experts support platform setup, operational management, exposure analysis, remediation prioritisation and ongoing reporting, helping security and IT teams work from a shared view of risk.
The elements of CTEM as a Service
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Platform setup and operational management
Gain visibility quickly without adding pressure on your people. This is done by supporting deployment, configuration, sensor integration and ongoing management of the CTEM platform.
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Exposure discovery and attack path analysis
Continuously identifying exposures across your environment and assessing how attackers could chain them together to reach critical assets.
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Risk-based prioritization
Prioritize remediation based on exploitability, business impact, asset criticality and the role each exposure plays in realistic attack paths.
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Remediation management
Receive practical recommendations and work with your IT and security teams to help track, manage, and reduce high-risk exposures.
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Resource augmentation
When and where internal capacity is limited, we can provide specialist support to help address remediation demands and accelerate risk reduction.
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Reporting and continuous improvement
Receive clear reporting that helps your security leaders measure exposure reduction, demonstrate progress, and support ongoing cyber risk governance.
The benefits of CTEM as a service
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Reduce exploitable cyber exposure
Identify the exposures that create real attack paths to critical assets and prioritize which actions reduce the greatest amount of risk.
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Move beyond vulnerability volume
Recognize which exposures matter most and why so you can focus on those that have the greatest impact on your organization.
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Improve alignment between security and IT
Give your security and IT teams a shared, prioritized view of remediation, making it easier to determine their priorities.
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Accelerate remediation
Use expert support, prioritized recommendations and remediation tracking to help close high-risk exposures faster.
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Improve cyber resilience
Continuously assess how your environment is changing and reduce the opportunities attackers have to gain access, move laterally or disrupt operations.
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Support board and compliance reporting
Use exposure reduction metrics, prioritized risk data and remediation progress reporting to support governance, compliance and executive decision-making.
Gartner Recognized
We are thrilled to share that Integrity360 has been recognized as a Gartner Representative Vendor in 5 of their Market Guides, including: Managed Security Services, Managed Detection and Response, Gartner's Market Guide for Co-Managed Security Monitoring Services and Managed SIEM Services.
Gartner has included a range of providers within its market guide for managed services to ensure clear coverage from a geographical, vertical and capabilities perspective. Those included in the Gartner market guide display clarity in the vision for an end-user outcome-focused offering distinct from a pure technology-driven offering.
Why Integrity360?
Enhance your cyber resilience with our Continuous Threat Exposure Management services. Speak to a specialist today to identify the ideal solution for your organization. Protect your business with ongoing threat monitoring and mitigation support.
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CTEM FAQs
What is Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)?
CTEM is a proactive cybersecurity approach that continuously identifies, prioritizes, and helps remediate exposures across an organization’s environment. It aligns security efforts with real-world threats by simulating how attackers would exploit weaknesses.
How does CTEM differ from penetration testing and red teaming?
Unlike periodic pen testing or red teaming, CTEM is continuous. It provides real-time visibility of exposures and threat scenarios, allowing organizations to prioritize and fix risks before they’re exploited, not just report them after the fact.
What are cyber security exposures?
Exposures are weaknesses that could be exploited by attackers. They include unpatched systems, misconfigurations, overly permissive access, shadow IT, and other flaws, not all of which are CVEs or vulnerabilities in the traditional sense.
Why is CTEM important for modern businesses?
CTEM enables businesses to stay ahead of attackers by constantly validating their security posture. It supports decision-making, drives continuous improvement, and helps security teams focus resources on the most pressing risks.
What does Integrity360’s CTEM as a Service include?
Integrity360 delivers CTEM through a five-stage model: scoping, discovery, prioritization, validation, and mobilization. This helps our clients to continuously identify exposures, validate threats, and take targeted action based on business risk.
Who should use CTEM as a Service?
CTEM is ideal for organizations that want to mature their cybersecurity strategy. It’s particularly valuable for regulated industries, businesses with complex IT environments, or those seeking to move beyond traditional vulnerability management.
How often are assessments or validations run?
CTEM is designed to run continuously or at a cadence that matches your business needs. This ensures exposures are always being reviewed and prioritized in line with emerging threats and infrastructure changes.
What makes Integrity360’s CTEM service different?
Integrity360’s CTEM as a Service is expert-led and tailored to your environment. It goes beyond technology, delivering context-rich insights, prioritized actions, and clear mobilization steps to both identify issues and then close the exposure loop.
Is CTEM the same as vulnerability management?
No. Vulnerability management focuses mainly on known vulnerabilities. CTEM takes a broader approach because it prioritizes exposures based on attack paths, exploitability, asset criticality, business impact and the likelihood of compromise.
What are examples of cyber exposures?
Cyber exposures often include unpatched systems, misconfigured cloud services, excessive permissions, exposed remote access, unmanaged internet-facing assets, weak identity controls, shadow IT and exploitable attack paths.
How quickly can CTEM as a Service provide value?
CTEM can provide value quickly by identifying high-risk attack paths, prioritizing critical exposures and giving security and IT teams clear remediation actions.
