CTEM

Continuous Threat Exposure Management

Transform your security program with continuous, risk-prioritized exposure management

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What is CTEM?

Security and AppSec teams face an endless stream of alerts, vulnerability noise, and shifting attack surfaces. Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) provides a structured, continuous framework for finding, validating, and fixing exploitable risks—aligning security priorities with business impact.

CTEM unifies the AppSec lifecycle by connecting scanning, validation, and remediation into a single, continuous cycle. Leveraging AI and automation, it separates exploitable vulnerabilities from scan results, bridges AppSec and development for faster fixes, and strengthens trust with data-backed validation.

Reduce noise and wasted effort

AI filters false positives and surfaces vulnerabilities likely to be exploited in your environment, helping AppSec teams focus on the highest-risk and impacted assets.
 

Stop bottlenecks between security & development

Continuous validation and integration into developer tools turn verified findings into faster fixes without slowing releases.
 

Understand security program effectiveness

Validate risks with real attacker data and AI-driven evidence to show measurable impact.
 

Manage overall exposure:

Real-attacker insights combined with AI-driven context allow for continuous prioritization, validation, and mobilization on what exposures matter most across your environment.

Scoping

Continuously refine your scope with real attacker insights.
Harness AI and historical data from pentests, bug bounties, and vulnerability disclosures to reveal where attackers are most likely to strike. Focus offensive security testing on the assets and exposures that carry the highest risk, so every test targets what truly matters.

  • Hai Agentic System: Uses coordinated AI agents that learn from historical findings and attacker behavior to recommend the next most impactful focus areas.
  • Pentest as a Service (PTaaS): Delivers adaptive pentesting that evolves with your assets, using AI + expert testers to pinpoint critical scope areas.
  • Bug Bounty: Provides real attacker insights that shape scope by revealing where exploitation is most likely.

Discovery

See your attack surface the way attackers do.
Uncover vulnerabilities across applications, APIs, code, cloud, and AI systems, going beyond traditional SAST and DAST. Combining AI with human intelligence provides scalable, continuous discovery across your entire attack surface.

  • Pentest as a Service (PTaaS): Delivers continuous, adaptive discovery across applications, APIs, and infrastructure.
  • Bug Bounty: Provides always-on discovery powered by the world’s largest community of security researchers.
  • AI Red Teaming: Conducts specialized adversarial testing to identify and validate safety and security issues in AI and LLM systems.
  • Code: Combines AI-assisted analysis with human validation to find vulnerabilities early in the SDLC.
  • VDP: Captures real-world discoveries from external researchers through a 24/7 disclosure channel.
  • Integrations: Consolidates scanner, cloud, and asset data into a unified, attacker-informed view.Bug Bounty: Always-on discovery powered by the world’s largest community of security researchers.
     

Prioritization

Turn discovery into clarity and action.
By combining AI-driven analysis, attacker-validated data, and business context, we deliver a clear, prioritized view of your true risk. Our systems continuously learn from historical findings and emerging exploit trends, helping you focus on the vulnerabilities most likely to be targeted and most critical to your organization.

  • Hai Agentic System: Uses deduplication and priority-escalation agents to remove false positives, deduplicate findings, and elevate the most impactful exposures.
  • Pentest as a Service (PTaaS): Provides validated results scored against exploitability and asset criticality.
  • Hai Triage: Delivers intelligent automation with expert oversight to transform raw findings into a curated, validated, and risk-ranked vulnerability pipeline.
  • Integrations: Incorporate context from tools like ServiceNow, Brinqa, and Nucleus to ensure prioritization reflects both business impact and attacker likelihood.

Validation

Prove what’s truly exploitable in your environment.

HackerOne delivers the industry’s most defensible validation layer, powered by AI agents, expert human researchers, and continuous adversarial testing. Every finding is verified with proof-of-exploit and retested to confirm real-world impact, giving you confidence that your security posture stands up to actual attacks.

  • Hai Agentic System: Uses the Insight Agent to analyze past patterns and attacker behavior to recommend the next best validation action.
  • Pentest as a Service (PTaaS): Provides ongoing exploitability testing that keeps pace with evolving assets and architectures.
  • Bug Bounty: Delivers continuous, real-world exploit validation from a global community of security researchers.
  • AI Red Teaming: Conducts adversarial testing against AI and LLM systems to confirm real-world safety and security impacts.
  • Code: Combines AI that understands business context with expert review to ensure only validated, high-signal issues reach developers.
  • Challenge: Performs focused, time-bound offensive testing to validate critical assets and confirm exploitability.
  • VDP: Captures external, outside-in submissions that provide continuous validation of real issues.
  • Integrations: Incorporate SOAR and SIEM data to enrich validation with operational and telemetry context.

Mobilization

From validation to verified resolution—fast.
Validated findings turn into rapid, measurable fixes through AI-assisted workflows and direct developer engagement. By embedding remediation guidance and automation into your existing tools, HackerOne closes the loop between validation and resolution, reducing mean time to remediation across your entire attack surface.

  • Hai Agentic System: Powers agentic workflows that automate ticket creation, guide fix recommendations, and confirm resolution.
  • Code: Delivers secure remediation guidance directly in developer tools like GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps.
  • VDP: Streamlines triage and workflows so validated reports feed directly into remediation.
  • Integrations: Embed findings across developer, IT, and security tools to align teams and track progress at scale.
The HackerOne Platform

One platform, dual force: 
Human minds + AI power

Combining human insights and AI-powered solutions for unmatched vulnerability elimination 
across the software development lifecycle.

AI Red Teaming

Test and secure your AI systems against security, safety, and trust issues.

Bug Bounty

Uncover novel and elusive vulnerabilities missed by other controls with continuous researcher-led testing.

Code

Catch vulnerabilities earlier in development with AI and expert human review.

Pentest as a Service

Access methodology-based pentesting with real-time insights and reporting.

Challenge

Discover critical vulnerabilities with focused, time-bound offensive testing.

Response

Manage and resolve vulnerabilities with the industry’s leading Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP).

Hai

HackerOne’s AI security agent drives smarter vulnerability workflows by combining deep report analysis with real-time performance data.

Ready to Operationalize CTEM?

Identify and address exposures before they’re exploited, validated by researchers, prioritized by business impact, and resolved in a single CTEM solution.

CTEM

Frequently asked questions

  • Too many findings, not enough fixes: CTEM cuts through the noise to highlight what truly matters.
  • Constantly changing environments: Cloud, SaaS, and hybrid systems evolve daily—CTEM ensures continuous validation as exposures shift.
  • Rising board expectations: CTEM translates technical issues into business risk and impact.
  • Limited resources: Focus remediation where it delivers the greatest risk reduction.

  • Overwhelming exposure volume: Scanners generate thousands—even hundreds of thousands—of findings, often with low signal-to-noise ratios. Teams can fix only a fraction.
  • Siloed tool stacks and fragmented context: Vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, identity, cloud drift — each often lives in a different toolset. CTEM aims to unify exposure data and correlate across your tech stack.
  • Unproven defenses and patch failures: Deploying patches or controls does not guarantee the exposure is closed. Without validation, you risk false confidence.
  • Lack of executive alignment: Technical severity (e.g., CVSS scores) alone is difficult to translate into business risk. CTEM reframes results for executive decision-making.
  • Rapid change, continuous risk drift: Infrastructure (cloud, containers, SaaS) changes so fast that periodic scanning leaves windows of exposure. Continuous monitoring is essential.
  • Resource constraints: You cannot fix everything. CTEM helps focus limited remediation resources on choke points that reduce risk the most.

  • Beyond CVE scanning — CTEM spans vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, identity exposures, trust relationships, and other “non-CVE” exposures.
  • Attack path and exploit validation — It doesn’t assume that every identified issue is exploitable; it probes whether exposures can be chained into realistic attack paths.
  • Business alignment and prioritization — Exposures are weighted by their potential impact on mission-critical assets, not just technical severity.
  • Feedback loop — CTEM emphasizes iterative cycles: discovery, validation, remediation, and reassessment, allowing posture improvements over time.

  • Leader in Exposure Management: Combining AI, integrations, and the world’s largest community of security researchers, HackerOne reduces risk faster, scales with your business, and delivers intelligence no one else can match.
  • The Hai Advantage: Hai Agent System continuously orchestrates validation, prioritization, and remediation.
  • Deep security testing across every layer of defense: HackerOne ensures exposures aren’t just found, but validated, ranked by business impact, and resolved, all within a single solution. This ensures exposures aren’t just found, but intelligently verified, ranked by business impact, and resolved within a single solution.
  • World’s largest validated vulnerability dataset: With the world’s largest researcher community and the deepest exploitability dataset in the industry, HackerOne’s findings go beyond theory, focusing on what attackers can actually do, so you know where to act first.
  • A robust ecosystem across all CTEM phases: HackerOne’s integration ecosystem ensures you have a solution and can work with the tools you already use for any CTEM stage. Our ecosystem bridges gaps, streamlines workflows, and ensures exposure management runs continuously across your entire environment.