Picture this: It is a Tuesday afternoon. Your vulnerability management team pulls up the weekly report. Sixty-three thousand open vulnerabilities across your environment. Your patch team closes out five hundred this week — a solid sprint by any measure. Everyone nods. The meeting ends. You walk out feeling like you are making progress. Three weeks later, an attacker exfiltrates six months of customer data through a misconfigured cloud storage bucket. No CVE assigned. Not on any scan report. Not even on your radar. That gap — the one between what your vulnerability scanner sees and what an attacker actually exploits — is exactly the problem that Continuous Threat Exposure Management is designed to close. And if you are leading a security program today without a CTEM strategy in place, you are managing the wrong list. What CTEM Actually Is (And What It Isn’t) Gartner introduced the term Continuous Threat Exposure Management in 2022, and the security industry has been both energized and c...