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 endless alerts, vulnerability noise, and shifting attack surfaces. Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) provides a structured, continuous approach to finding, validating, and fixing exploitable risks—aligning security priorities with business impact.

CTEM unifies the AppSec lifecycle by connecting scanning, validation, and remediation into one 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.
 

The Five Phases of CTEM

Identify critical assets, map business risk, and delineate attack surface boundaries. This brings together business relevance and exposure data from every part of your attack surface–cloud, SaaS, code repositories, and third-party services—so security teams know what assets require their immediate attention. 

HackerOne helps you define the exposures that matter most. Centralize asset visibility across your testing programs for a continuously refined scope around high-value assets and areas of greatest risk.

scoping CTEM

Continuously scan for vulnerabilities wherever attackers might strike: code, cloud, IoT, and third-party ecosystems. Discovery goes beyond traditional vulnerability scans to uncover hidden assets, giving a true view of your attack surface. 

HackerOne combines automation with adversarial insight to see your attack surface the way attackers do.

Discovery CTEM

Evaluate exploitability likelihood, business impact, and attack path context to highlight the exposures most likely to disrupt critical operations.

HackerOne turns thousands of findings into a clear, ranked view of risk by combining attacker insights, AI-driven analysis, and business context. 
 

Prioritization

Use simulated attacks, red/blue teaming, and attack path analysis to verify which exposures matter, identifying confirmed risks with proof of exploitation instead of theoretical vulnerabilities.

HackerOne separates real risks from noise. Through automation and attacker activity, we confirm which vulnerabilities can actually be exploited in your environment.

Validation

Move validated findings into action by orchestrating cross-team workflows and integrating with IT and developer processes to ensure exposures are closed for good.

HackerOne embeds remediation directly into developer environments, from code-level guidance to ticketing system integrations, so fixes happen faster, cross-team alignment improves, and risk reduction is measurable.

Mobilization
HackerOne Platform

CTEM is the playbook. HackerOne is how you run it.

HackerOne combines human expertise, automation, and AI agents to support every CTEM stage—from scoping to mobilization. These solutions run continuously and integrate seamlessly with your existing security stack to strengthen your overall security posture.

AI Red Teaming

Specialized adversarial testing to identify and validate safety and security issues in AI and LLM systems. Find where LLMs are exposed, test real attack scenarios, and help apply fixes.

Bug Bounty

Tap into the world’s largest community of security researchers for continuous, real-world discovery and exploit validation. Findings are verified, prioritized, and enriched with the attacker's perspective, so teams can focus on exposures that truly matter.

Code

Combine AI-assisted code analysis with human-in-the-loop validation, delivering secure remediation built for developers. Identify and validate vulnerabilities early in the SDLC, deliver fix guidance directly in workflows like GitHub or Jira, and close the loop between discovery and remediation.

Pentest as a Service

Adaptive pentesting that evolves with your attack surface. Combine AI-driven automation and expert testers to continuously scope, discover, and validate real attack paths—turning offensive testing into an ongoing process that keeps pace with change.

Challenge

Focused, time-bound offensive testing to validate critical assets and confirm real exploitability before attackers can. Supported by AI-driven analytics, findings are prioritized and contextualized to accelerate risk reduction and strengthen overall resilience.

Response

A 24/7 channel for external researchers and trusted partners to safely disclose vulnerabilities—providing continuous, real-world validation of your security posture. AI-assisted triage and integrated workflows turn external reports into prioritized, validated insights that feed directly into remediation.

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.