Security News > 2023 > May > 3 Challenges in Building a Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) Program and How to Beat Them

In this article, we'll look at another trending acronym - CTEM, which stands for Continuous Threat Exposure Management - and the often-surprising challenges that come along with seeing a CTEM program through to maturity.

Continuous Threat Exposure Management is not a technology and you can't go to a vendor in hopes of finding a CTEM solution.

What CTEM is, instead, is a continuous 5-stage program or framework intended to help organizations monitor, evaluate, and reduce their level of exploitability and validate that their analysis and remediation processes are optimal.

Hold up; setting up a CTEM program is a great initiative - but there are some challenges in implementation that need to be addressed in order for execution to be successful.

A comprehensive CTEM program covers many different areas, from Cloud, to AD, to software vulnerabilities, to network security and basically everything else.

Challenge 3 - Overcoming diagnostic overload #. Back to that point about all the different areas covered in CTEM; Another important aspect to note is that as they all have their own tools, they all yield alerts.

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