CTEM 101 - Go Beyond Vulnerability Management with Continuous Threat Exposure Management

**Executive Summary:** This contributed article introduces Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) as a programmatic approach to continuously discover, prioritize, validate, and remediate real attacker-focused risks across cloud, on‑premises, and remote assets; it outlines CTEM's five stages, contrasts CTEM with legacy vulnerability management and assessment methods, and provides high-level guidance for organizational adoption and tooling to improve security posture.