ROC vs. CTEM: How a Risk Operations Center Evolves Beyond Continuous Threat Exposure Management in 2026

This vendor whitepaper contrasts Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) with a Risk Operations Center (ROC), arguing that while CTEM provides the framework for exposure management, a ROC delivers real-time, business-aligned risk operations—adding unified asset inventory, aggregated risk factors, threat intelligence, remediation orchestration, compliance automation, and financial risk quantification—powered by agentic AI and exemplified by Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM).