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A3Sec CTEM is a commercial exposure management tool by A3Sec. Paladin Cloud is a commercial exposure management tool by Paladin Cloud. Compare features, ratings, integrations, and community reviews side by side to find the best exposure management fit for your security stack.
CST VerdictBased on our analysis of NIST CSF 2.0 coverage, core features, integrations, company size fit, here is our conclusion:
Mid-market and enterprise security teams drowning in unknown assets and exposure backlogs will see immediate value in A3Sec CTEM's continuous discovery paired with automated attack simulation; it forces prioritization by actual exploitability rather than CVE noise. The vendor's coverage across NIST ID.AM, ID.RA, and DE.CM reflects genuine strength in asset mapping and risk contextualization where most exposure tools leak. Skip this if your organization prioritizes incident response over exposure prevention or lacks the resources to act on continuous remediation workflows; A3Sec assumes you can operationalize findings at scale.
Mid-market and enterprise security teams drowning in scanner noise will find real value in Paladin Cloud's AI-driven correlations across vulnerability, CSPM, and code scanning tools. The platform maps directly to NIST ID.AM and ID.RA by consolidating fragmented findings into a single attack surface view with severity-based SLA enforcement, cutting through the false positive problem that makes traditional aggregation tools useless. Skip this if you need deep incident response capabilities or are already standardized on a single vendor's full stack; Paladin excels at making your existing tool sprawl actually manageable, not replacing it.
Managed CTEM service for continuous attack surface & threat exposure mgmt.
AI-driven platform that unifies & prioritizes vuln findings across cloud tools.
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A3Sec CTEM: Managed CTEM service for continuous attack surface & threat exposure mgmt. built by A3Sec. headquartered in Spain. Core capabilities include Continuous asset discovery and mapping, including unknown assets, with a dynamic inventory, Real-time visibility into all assets and their exposure levels, Automated attack simulations to validate vulnerability exploitability..
Paladin Cloud: AI-driven platform that unifies & prioritizes vuln findings across cloud tools. built by Paladin Cloud. headquartered in United States. Core capabilities include AI-powered risk prioritization and scoring across assets and policies, Unified aggregation of findings from vulnerability scanners, CSPM, app code scanners, and endpoint tools, Asset inventory and real-time attack surface visualization..
Both serve the Exposure Management market but differ in approach, feature depth, and target audience.
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