CTEM (Continuous Threat Exposure Management) is an ongoing security programme that continuously discovers, validates, and monitors your attack surface. Unlike point-in-time penetration testing, CTEM operates continuously to catch new exposures as they appear.

How is CTEM different from penetration testing?

Penetration testing is a point-in-time assessment. CTEM provides continuous monitoring with weekly testing cadence, discovers unknown assets, and delivers findings in real time rather than in a single report at the end.

What does CTEM monitor?

CTEM monitors your external attack surface, cloud configurations, data exposure, credential leaks, application security, and network perimeter. Every finding is validated by a human operator, not just a scanner.

How often does CTEM test?

CTEM operates on a weekly testing cadence. Critical findings are alerted within 48 hours. This continuous approach catches exposures that appear between quarterly or annual penetration tests.

Is CTEM required for compliance?

While not explicitly mandated by name, NIS2 and DORA both require continuous risk management and regular security testing. CTEM satisfies these requirements better than periodic testing alone.

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Real testing by experienced operators. Threat-informed scoping, actionable reporting, and verified remediation.

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What We Do

Penetration Testing

Manual testing that finds what scanners miss

Red Team Operations

Multi-week adversary simulations

CTEM

Continuous threat exposure management

Threat Intelligence

Data breach, dark web, and credential monitoring

EDR & XDR Testing

Endpoint detection gap analysis and evasion testing

Phishing & Social Engineering

Real campaigns, not generic templates

AI & LLM Security

Testing AI systems and LLM integrations

Zero-Day Research

Hunting undiscovered vulnerabilities

Reverse Engineering

Binary analysis, malware, and firmware

How We Work

From scoping to verified remediation in four phases. Every engagement follows the same structure, adapted to your threat landscape.

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The Process

01 Scoping & Threat Model

Profile threat actors, map attack surface, define objectives

02 Testing & Exploitation

Manual testing, chained vulnerabilities, real attack paths

03 Reporting & Debrief

Proof, impact, remediation path, live walkthrough

04 Remediation & Validation

Re-test fixes, confirm they work, measurable improvement

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Continuous Threat Exposure Management

Quarterly pen tests are snapshots. CTEM keeps testing continuously: discovery, validation, and monitoring, all run by human operators.

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Snapshots miss what changes tomorrow

Forgotten subdomains, shadow APIs, stale credentials. Your attack surface grows faster than quarterly tests can track. CTEM closes that gap with continuous human-validated testing.

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Pentest vs. CTEM

Point-in-time snapshot

Continuous monitoring

Scoped to known assets

Discovers unknown assets

Quarterly or annual cycle

Ongoing, weekly cadence

Scanner + manual validation

Human operators, every finding validated

Report at the end

Real-time findings delivered as found

What We Monitor

Full attack surface coverage

External Attack Surface

Continuous discovery and monitoring of internet-facing assets, subdomains, exposed services, and shadow infrastructure.

Cloud Configuration

Ongoing validation of AWS, Azure, and GCP configurations including IAM policies, storage permissions, and network exposure.

Data Exposure

Automated and manual checks for leaked credentials, exposed databases, and sensitive data in public repositories.

Credential Monitoring

Dark web and paste site monitoring for compromised employee credentials and API keys associated with your domains.

Application Security

Continuous lightweight testing of web applications and APIs for newly disclosed vulnerabilities and configuration drift.

Network Perimeter

Regular validation of firewall rules, open ports, and exposed internal services that may have appeared since the last assessment.

Continuous

Discovery

Weekly

Testing Cadence

48hr

Critical Alert

Real-time

Findings

The CTEM Cycle

The CTEM cycle

Discover

Find everything: domains, subdomains, IPs, cloud assets, exposed services, and the shadow infrastructure nobody in your team knows exists.

Prioritise

Prioritise exposures by how exploitable they actually are and what the business impact would be. Real threat intel, not CVSS scores from a scanner.

Test & Validate

A human operator validates every finding to weed out false positives and confirm it is actually exploitable. Scanners suggest. Operators prove.

Remediate & Monitor

Findings go straight into your workflow. We re-test your fixes and keep monitoring for new exposures as they appear.

Case Study

SaaS provider discovers 340 unknown assets in first CTEM sweep

340 Unknown Assets12 Critical ExposuresSaaS Platform

The first CTEM sweep found 340 hosts, APIs, and staging environments nobody remembered deploying. Twelve had critical exposures. Within a week every one was patched.

VP of Engineering

Enterprise SaaS Provider

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Your attack surface is bigger than you think

Quarterly pen tests are snapshots that age quickly. CTEM runs continuous discovery and validation with human operators checking every finding. Talk to us about a programme that keeps up with your actual attack surface.

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