Reduce Your Attack Surface with Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) by Zoey Chu

## Executive summary Vectra AI's 2026 State of Threat Exposure Management Report argues that exposure management must move from periodic reporting to a continuous operational process: observe, prioritize with contextual risk, act to reduce meaningful exposure, and validate remediation. The report highlights telemetry trends (e.g., newly observed devices and prevalent attacker-relevant exposures) and recommends adding continuous operational evidence to existing tools so teams can focus remediation on actions that lower real risk.