Beyond Vulnerabilities: Your Guide to Cyber Threat Exposure Management (CEM) & The Power of AI| EP 97

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Beyond Vulnerabilities: Your Guide to Cyber Threat Exposure Management (CEM) & The Power of AI| EP 97
Jun 16, 2025
Prashant Mishra

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Today's episode offers a comprehensive overview of Cyber Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), defining it as a proactive framework for continuously evaluating digital and physical asset accessibility, exposure, and exploitability. It clarifies foundational cybersecurity concepts such as vulnerabilities, attack surface, threats, and impact, explaining how their interplay creates exposure. The speaker categorizes various types of exposure, from internet-facing systems to data leakage and phishing susceptibility, emphasizing the expanding attack surface due to interconnected IT infrastructure. Furthermore, the discussion elaborates on exposure management processes and related technologies, including vulnerability scanning, patch management, penetration testing, breach and attack simulation, and external attack surface management, alongside an explanation of how these tools are evolving to support a more unified CTEM approach. Finally, the transcript explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is enhancing CTEM through automated discovery, smarter prioritization, intelligent remediation, and enhanced automation.

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