Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)

Tonic Security's Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a platform that implements Gartner's CTEM framework to address limitations of traditional vulnerability management. The platform shifts focus from static vulnerability lists to continuous assessment of exposures across the entire attack surface. The solution addresses the challenge of managing over 40,000 vulnerabilities reported annually by providing contextual awareness and business-aligned prioritization. It covers multiple exposure types including misconfigurations, security control gaps, unprotected secrets, and credentials, extending beyond traditional CVE-focused vulnerability management. The platform operates through five phases: scoping to define critical assets and risk appetite, discovery of known and unknown assets across cloud workloads and shadow IT, assessment of exposures with multi-dimensional context, validation of real-world risk, and mobilization for remediation workflows. CTEM integrates with discovery capabilities and provides centralized identification, assessment, prioritization, and remediation of exposures across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. The platform enriches findings with threat intelligence, asset criticality, exploit availability, and compensating controls to determine actual cyber risk rather than generic vulnerability scores.