CTEM vs Vulnerability Management
Where traditional vulnerability management ends and continuous exposure management begins.
Why it matters
Vulnerability management is focused on identifying vulnerabilities, assigning severity and driving remediation. CTEM expands the operating model to understand the broader exposure landscape and continuously determine which exposures deserve action first.
What a mature approach looks like
A mature program combines vulnerability data with attack surface discovery, identity context, misconfiguration data, attack paths, exploitability and business criticality.
What to consider
The distinction is practical: vulnerability management answers what is vulnerable, while CTEM aims to answer what can materially hurt the business and what should be fixed next.
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