CTEM can give your security team a contextual edge
Brief
Traditional vulnerability management is accelerating toward a reset, with many security organizations considering continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) to better align their operations with the pace of change — and attacks — today.
Whereas traditional vulnerability management relies on periodic assessments, with security teams scanning environments, identifying vulnerabilities, and implementing fixes as necessary, CTEM takes a more agile approach, while also broadening beyond vulnerabilities with the aim to continuously understand an organization’s risk exposure across endpoints, networks, identities, cloud environments, applications, and users.
“CTEM brings something different to the table in three key areas,” highlights Fernando Maldonado, principal analyst at Foundry Spain. The first, he points out, is scope.