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CTEM as a Service
Every remediation decision is also a decision about what waits. A security leader who moves one fix ahead of another is expected to explain why, to the IT team doing the work, to leadership approving the time, and to anyone asking how priorities were set. Severity scores alone rarely hold up under that question. Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) as a Service gives you a way to answer it with evidence, continuously, and with the platform and advisors already in place.
This guide sets out how the service works, what it includes, and what changes for your security and IT teams once remediation is ranked by the risk it removes.
Who this guide is for
Security and IT leaders in organizations who already run vulnerability scanning and want a defensible way to decide what gets fixed first. This includes CISOs and security managers accountable for posture; IT and infrastructure leads who own the remediation work; and teams of any size where the list of open exposures is growing faster than the time available to work through it.
What's in this guide
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The five stages of the CTEM cycle, and where in that cycle the evidence behind a priority is produced.
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Attack path analysis explained in enough detail to answer a scanner score that disagrees with the recommended order.
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Every element of a full engagement, from platform setup through to remediation management, and which ones are optional.
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The two service levels side by side, for a team deciding how much of the remediation work to keep in-house.
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The option of adding remediation specialists when the backlog is larger than the hours available.
Discover
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Why an exposure on several attack paths can outrank a critical CVE in the remediation order, and what that ranking is based on.
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Which exposures a scanner does not report, and why they belong in the same ranking as the ones it does.
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What changes between Security and IT when both work from one list with the reasoning attached.
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How a fix is followed from ticket to closure, and what weekly reporting gives the people approving the time.
