Understanding CTEM
CTEM represents a holistic initiative that empowers enterprises to consistently evaluate their cybersecurity status, prioritize vulnerabilities based on risk, and proactively address them. It revolves around five essential phases:
Scoping: Defining the resources, settings, and potential attack vectors to monitor.
Exploration: Spotting both visible and obscured resources, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations within the previously identified areas.
Prioritization: Grasping the real-world implications of threats and concentrating on the most critical risks by taking into account factors like urgency, available safeguards, and business consequences rather than attempting to fix every single issue.
Verification: Validating which vulnerabilities are exploitable, examining potential attack routes, testing and simulating attacks to assess exploitability.
Action: Implementing remedial actions, automation, security enhancements, and transparent risk communication.
This ongoing process ensures that organizations not only identify threats but actively minimize their vulnerability before threat actors can exploit them.
How CREM Aligns with CTEM
Our Cyber Risk Exposure Management solution is designed to facilitate the efficient execution of a comprehensive CTEM initiative. Here is how it aligns:
Comprehensive Insight into Your Attack Surface
A major hurdle in CTEM is scoping and exploration. CREM offers continuous attack surface discovery and monitoring, ensuring organizations possess a transparent, real-time perspective of their resources, cloud environments, and third-party risks.
Risk-Oriented Prioritization
Given the multitude of vulnerabilities and exposures to handle, organizations need a more effective method to concentrate on the most severe risks. CREM utilizes threat intelligence, exploitability insights, attack path analysis, and business impact assessments to prioritize vulnerabilities efficiently, seamlessly aligning with CTEM’s risk-focused methodology.
Vulnerability Validation and Analysis
An essential aspect of CTEM is verifying the exploitability of identified vulnerabilities. While CREM does not directly integrate penetration testing or real-world attack simulations, we offer services within the Trend ecosystem that deliver these capabilities, ensuring security teams can effectively assess real-world threats.
Automated Rectification and Workflow Integration
CTEM stresses the importance of swift action implementation. CREM supports automated mitigation workflows, guided remediation procedures, and integrations with SOAR and ITSM tools, streamlining the operationalization of risk mitigation. Additionally, CREM acts as a vital communication medium that assists in bridging the gap between security teams and business stakeholders, enabling clearer risk communication to drive prompt informed decisions.
Gaining an Advantage with CREM
Enterprises aiming to implement CTEM do not need to initiate from scratch. With CREM, you obtain a pre-established framework that aligns with CTEM principles, hastening the adoption of a proactive vulnerability management approach.
Instead of struggling to construct CTEM capabilities internally, CREM provides:
- Swift value realization with inherent attack surface visibility, risk prioritization, and mitigation.
- Proactive security outcomes by ensuring continuous evaluation and mitigation of vulnerabilities.
- Seamless integration with current security tools and a services ecosystem to amplify efficiency and response times.
In Conclusion
With cyber threats evolving in complexity, organizations must shift from reactive defense to proactive vulnerability management. CTEM furnishes the strategic framework, and CREM offers the capabilities to execute it effectively. If you seek to establish a CTEM initiative, CREM can aid in expediting your journey, providing practical insights, automated workflows, and continual risk mitigation.
Are you prepared to advance? Let’s discuss how Trend Vision One™ Cyber Risk Exposure Management can bolster your CTEM endeavors.
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