Risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM) nudged security teams beyond raw CVSS scores, yet it was only a waypoint on the exposure management journey. Security teams are still drowning in alerts, with little more than threat intel layered atop CVSS to dimly light a path forward. Threat actors are exploiting vulnerabilities and exposures using advanced tactics, automation, and even AI. The average time to exploit now sits at 5 days.
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) meets this challenge head-on, prioritizing, validating, and responding to what are actually the organization’s biggest risks. This article discusses how to migrate from RBVM to CTEM in pragmatic, business-aligned steps that every team can follow, to focus finite resources on the most exploitable threats and accrue quick wins.
