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As cyber threats continue to evolve, it’s crucial to assess whether your defense strategy has kept pace. A newly released, complimentary guide, available here, highlights the importance of Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) in proactive cybersecurity.
This concise report presents a compelling business case for adopting CTEM’s comprehensive approach to enhance a company’s cyber defenses against evolving attacks. It also provides a real-world scenario illustrating how a business would fare against a formjacking attack under three different security frameworks: Vulnerability Management (VM), Attack Surface Management (ASM), and CTEM. While VM might allow an attack to go unnoticed for weeks, CTEM’s simulated attacks detect and neutralize threats before they begin.
Notably, CTEM builds upon existing VM and ASM solutions, eliminating the need to replace current systems.
First, it’s essential to understand—
What is CTEM?
In response to increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, Gartner introduced Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) in 2022 as a proactive security strategy. This strategy involves a five-step sequence of phases:
Limitations of VM and ASM
CTEM’s holistic approach enables security teams to assess both internal and external threats and respond based on business priorities. The primary issue with relying on a VM framework is that it focuses on identifying and patching known vulnerabilities within a company’s internal infrastructure. This approach is limited in scope and reactive by nature, making it less effective in dealing with evolving attacks. ASM offers a broader scope but still lacks continuous validation capabilities, as the report explains.
CTEM combines the strengths of VM and ASM, providing continuous monitoring, threat validation, attack simulation, penetration testing, and prioritization based on business impact.
CTEM: A More Business-Relevant Approach
For CISOs, prioritizing security efforts based on business impact is vital. Modern websites are highly dynamic, and security teams cannot afford to block and investigate every single change without severely limiting website functionality and negatively affecting the business.
CTEM seeks to strike a balance between the competing demands of risk and cost by identifying and prioritizing the most potentially damaging risk factors. Each business has a unique risk appetite, and by implementing a CTEM solution, it can respond to threats according to its own definition of risk tolerance.
CTEM is a mature and effective strategy for managing today’s complex threat landscape. While it can unlock better security cost-effectively, it requires strategic implementation. Various CTEM solutions are available, and the downloadable PDF lists several options (as well as a selection of VM and ASM solutions).
A good CTEM solution will map all assets in a website’s digital infrastructure, monitoring them for changes that signal the start of Magecart, ransomware, and other attacks. It will deliver timely alerts according to the company’s risk appetite, assist with compliance monitoring, and more. Download the guide now to learn how CTEM can proactively protect your business from formjacking, ransomware, and other advanced threats.
