Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a framework, not a product category. Many technologies can contribute to a CTEM program, but the challenge is determining what those technologies can actually demonstrate across the operating model.
The CTEM Technology Evaluation Scorecard provides security leaders and technical evaluation teams with a practical framework for assessing technologies based on repeatable evidence, not feature claims.
Evaluate Technologies Across the CTEM Operating Model
Use the scorecard to assess how a technology contributes across six areas of a CTEM program:
- Discover Exposure: Identify the conditions and relationships that create potential exposure
- Validate Exploitability: Prove which exposures attackers can actually exploit and what successful exploitation makes possible
- Prioritize With Confidence: Use demonstrated exploitability and impact to improve remediation decisions
- Remediate With Clarity: Give remediation teams the evidence and context needed to eliminate exposure
- Verify Risk Removal: Actively retest to prove remediation removed the demonstrated exposure and attack path
- Repeat: Test frequently enough to demonstrate whether exploitable exposure is decreasing over time
Score Capabilities Based on Evidence
Rather than scoring technologies based solely on stated capabilities, the scorecard uses a 0–3 evaluation scale based on what the technology can demonstrate.
Scores range from capabilities that are not supported or depend primarily on inference and manual processes to evidence-based capabilities directly demonstrated through repeatable evidence in your environment.
For every score, evaluators also record the strongest evidence provided: none, documentation, demo, or proven in your environment.
Identify Critical Evidence Gaps
A weighted overall score provides a view of capability across the CTEM operating model, while dedicated evidence thresholds help prevent critical validation and verification gaps from being hidden by a strong overall score.
The scorecard places particular emphasis on Validate Exploitability and Verify Risk Removal, helping teams determine whether a technology can prove both that an exposure is exploitable and that remediation actually eliminated it.
Evaluate CTEM Technology Based on What It Can Prove
Download the CTEM Technology Evaluation Scorecard to compare technologies across the CTEM operating model, document the evidence behind each score, identify capability gaps, and assess whether a technology can help your organization continuously reduce exploitable exposure.