Take a different approach to CTEM
Build a scalable continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) program that actually reduces risk. A holistic assessment of your attack surface enables you to manage risk across assets, data, identity, cloud, and SaaS.
The Problem
Amid evolving threats, traditional VM programs often fail to encompass the breadth of vulnerabilities or integrate mitigating controls into risk analysis. To address these gaps, Gartner recommends organizations adopt CTEM for a structured, iterative process to reduce exposures and enhance security posture.
Solution Overview
Driving the context to power your CTEM program
Benefits
Holistic, continuous threat exposure management
Create a single view of asset “truth”
Ensure you have comprehensive, accurate, and context-rich asset inventory to fuel your CTEM initiatives.
Uncover all of your exposures
Bring exposures and findings across siloed security tools into one correlated, deduplicated view.
Prioritize your greatest risks
Identify your biggest exposures with contextual and customizable insights into your risk factors and mitigating controls.
Quantify your cyber risk
Factor financial loss estimates and map risks to compliance frameworks to further accelerate your CTEM priorities.
Solution Details
Right-size your CTEM program's scope with no data limitations
Leverage any data point from any source system to inform risk, ensuring information is not limiting your CTEM scope. Plus, quickly assess your current security posture to identify gaps and integrate them into CTEM initiatives.
Include any data from any source
Pull in risk data from anywhere to build a unified view of risk across your entire environment.
Build a common data set to drive CTEM
Rely on one source of contextualized data to fuel your most critical exposure management projects.
Plan for a changing environment
Seamlessly maintain your CTEM program as scope evolves, tools change, and new learnings emerge.
Discover all your assets and their exposures
Leverage our Data Fabric for Security to integrate feeds from numerous siloed security and IT tools. Harmonize, deduplicate, correlate, and enrich the data through our unique architecture to create a unified view of risk across your environment.
Discover all your internal assets
Bring together all your asset information to create a holistic and accurate inventory.
Understand your external attack surface
See your entire external attack surface, including known and unknown assets.
Identify all your vulnerabilities
Gather all your gaps and exposures from across siloed tools into one consolidated view.
See gaps in your Zscaler implementation
Get an immediate view into the adjustments to your of Zscaler policies that would reduce risk.
Recognize your most critical data
Discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in your public cloud environments.
Uncover SaaS application gaps
Close gaps and cloud configuration gaps as well as potential privileged access errors.
Achieve the greatest potential risk reduction with the least effort
A complete view of your assets and exposures helps you prioritize the most critical actions to reduce risk. We integrate your business context and mitigating controls to tailor the results to your unique risk profile. Rather than manually stitching together data from multiple tools, you get a focused, impactful action plan created automatically.
Get a to-do list of your riskiest exposures
Identify which security gaps and vulnerabilities to fix first, based on your unique environment.
Use OOTB and custom factors
Rely on pre-built risk calculations and adjust the weight of any risk factor or mitigating control based on your business needs.
Account for mitigating controls
Ensure the security controls you’ve deployed are factored into your risk calculation “math”.
Use financial metrics as a prioritization lens
Understand the financial risk that your exposures are causing your business with cyber risk quantification (CRQ).
Understand how attackers could exploit an exposed vulnerability
Validation helps security and risk management stakeholders better understand their vulnerabilities through methods like breach attack path simulation and pentesting. Zscaler Managed Threat Hunting provides 24/7 access to expert hunters who uncover anomalies, sophisticated threats, and signs of malicious activity that traditional tools might miss.
Enlist skilled pentesters
Rely on a team of expert threat hunters to uncover early warning signs and prevent breaches.
Incorporate pentesting results
Leverage red team pentesting results as a risk prioritization factor in your CTEM program.
Remediate gaps and measure your CTEM program’s success
Boost stakeholder engagement and buy-in by effectively communicating and assigning remediation priorities, automating custom workflows, providing detailed reports, and measuring ongoing risk.
Assign the right action to the right team
Utilize accurate asset and ownership details to assign remediations to the proper team.
Initiate customized automated workflows
Leverage bidirectional integrations to ticketing systems to ensure timely remediations are completed and tracked.
Showcase progress with robust reporting
Easily create and distribute dashboards and reports on program status, based on your team’s KPIs, SLAs, and other metrics.
Quantify ongoing levels of cyber risk
Track financial risk and compliance changes as part of reporting on your CTEM initiatives and successes.
Use Cases
Build an effective CTEM program without limits
Bring together all the data in your environment—no matter how obscure or custom the source—into an accurate, deduplicated, contextualized, and complete view of your assets and exposures.
Get a complete, accurate, and context-rich asset inventory to pinpoint misconfigurations and missing controls, and utilize automated workflows to close gaps.
Experience the power of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange
A comprehensive platform to secure, simplify, and transform your business
01 Risk Management
Reduce risk, and detect and contain breaches, with actionable insights from a unified platform
02 Cyberthreat Protection
Protect users, devices, and workloads against compromise and lateral threat movement
03 Data Protection
Leverage full TLS/SSL inspection at scale for complete data protection across the SSE platform
04 Zero Trust for Branch and Cloud
Connect users, devices, and workloads between and within the branch, cloud, and data center
Customer Success Stories
LifeLabs transforms its cyber risk program with CTEM
LifeLabs transforms its cyber risk program with CTEM
LifeLabs transforms its cyber risk program with CTEM
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1. Gartner, Implement a Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) Program, Jeremy D'Hoinne, Pete Shoard, Mitchell Schneider, 11 October 2023.
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