CVEasy AI is the first and only platform on Apple hardware to deliver all 5 stages of Gartner's CTEM framework in a single local-first application, powered by proprietary TRIS™ scoring, BASzy™ attack validation, and a built-in AI engine that runs 100% on your hardware. No cloud. No agents on targets. No per-asset fees.
Discover. Validate. Remediate.
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a five stage program introduced by Gartner in 2022 for continuously discovering, prioritizing, validating, and remediating the exposures an attacker would actually use against your organization. It is a framework, not a product category. It exists because traditional vulnerability management is losing: scanners produce tens of thousands of CVSS-scored findings, teams patch by severity label, and attackers exploit the mediums nobody got to.
CTEM flips the model. Instead of asking "what vulnerabilities do we have," it asks "which exposures can actually be exploited here, what would that cost us, and did the fix work." Scope, discover, prioritize, validate, mobilize, then loop.
"By 2026, organizations that prioritize their security investments based on a continuous threat exposure management program will be three times less likely to suffer a breach." GARTNER, IMPLEMENT A CONTINUOUS THREAT EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT (CTEM) PROGRAM, 2022
It is 2026. That prediction came due. Most vendors sell you one or two stages of the loop and call it CTEM. CVEasy AI ships all five, local-first, on hardware you already own.
Five stages, run continuously. The output of Mobilize feeds the next Scope.
Identify your crown jewels, business-critical assets, and attack surface boundaries. CVEasy automatically classifies assets by criticality and maps them to business units.
Most CTEM programs die in stage 1 because scoping becomes a six month committee exercise. Start with one business-critical slice: the payment path, the domain controllers, the customer-facing edge. CVEasy's auto-classification gives you a defensible first scope in hours, and the loop widens it every cycle.
CVEasy is a second source of truth for your attack surface. Agentless. It consolidates the exports from the scanners you already run, adds a lightweight local service sweep and BASzy findings, then deduplicates everything into one asset, exposure, and attack-path graph. No agents on target hosts. This is not a replacement enterprise scanner, it is the layer that consolidates and enriches what you already have.
Discovery is not "buy another scanner." You almost certainly have the data already, split across Nessus exports, cloud consoles, and EDR inventories that disagree with each other. The stage 2 problem is consolidation and dedup into one graph. That graph is what makes stages 3 through 5 possible.
TRIS™ v2 12-layer scoring goes beyond CVSS. Combines exploitability (EPSS), active exploitation (CISA KEV), threat actor targeting, asset criticality, business context, BASzy validation, attack-path blast radius, supply-chain propagation, defense efficacy, predictive trajectory, and FAIR-based financial impact into a single defensible score.
CVSS answers "how bad is this in a lab." It never answers "how bad is this on that host, in this network, for this business." Fewer than 6% of CVEs are ever exploited in the wild, so a severity-sorted queue wastes most of your remediation budget. Score the exposure in context or you are prioritizing blind. Try it yourself in the TRIS Calculator.
BASzy runs real attack simulations, 158,271 payloads, 10 pre-built campaigns, 18 endpoint security tests. Don't guess. Know.
Validation is the stage most "CTEM platforms" quietly skip, because it requires actually attacking things. A prioritized list you never validated is still a guess. BASzy™ runs the real technique against the real control stack, so "critical" means "we proved it" and "resolved" means "we re-ran the attack and it failed."
This is where every other vendor stops. Tenable tells you what's wrong. Qualys gives you a CVSS score. SafeBreach proves it's exploitable. None of them tell you how to fix it.
CVEasy AI™ generates exact remediation commands per vulnerability, per OS, per asset. Not "apply the latest patch", the actual apt-get command, the iptables rule, the Set-MpPreference PowerShell one-liner, the auditctl detection rule, the verification command to confirm the fix worked, and the rollback command if it breaks something. Upload your internal runbooks to the Knowledge Base and the AI references your standards, not generic advice.
Mobilization fails on handoff friction: security files a ticket that says "patch CVE-2026-XXXX" and IT spends a day figuring out what that means on their fleet. Hand them the exact command, the verification step, and the rollback, and the same ticket closes in minutes. That is the difference between a report and a fix.
| Traditional VM | CTEM | |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence | Periodic scans (monthly, quarterly) | Continuous loop |
| Coverage | CVEs on scanned hosts | Full exposure surface: vulns, misconfigs, identity, cloud posture, attack paths |
| Prioritization | CVSS severity labels | Exploitability, threat activity, asset criticality, business impact |
| Proof | None. Assumes severity = risk | Validation: prove the exposure is exploitable before it jumps the queue |
| Output | A ranked list handed to IT | Mobilized remediation with owners, SLAs, and re-validation that the fix worked |
| Success metric | Vulns closed per month | Provable reduction in exploitable exposure and shorter time-to-remediate |
Deeper dive: the CTEM framework explained and a 90 day implementation plan.
None of these categories compete with CTEM. Each one is a partial input to it. Here is where every adjacent acronym fits in the loop, and what it misses on its own.
| Category | What it does | Where it fits in CTEM | What it misses alone |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASM / EASM | Maps internet-facing assets and shadow IT | Stage 2, Discover (external surface) | No prioritization, no validation, no fix loop |
| RBVM | Ranks scanner findings by risk instead of raw CVSS | Stage 3, Prioritize (partial) | Still CVE-only, never proves exploitability, stops at a list |
| BAS | Runs attack simulations against your controls | Stage 4, Validate | No asset context or prioritization ahead of it, no remediation behind it |
| Pentest / Red team | Point-in-time human-driven attack exercise | Stage 4, Validate (snapshot) | Expires the day the report lands. CTEM makes it continuous |
| CSPM / CIEM | Finds cloud misconfigurations and identity risk | Stage 2, Discover (cloud surface) | Cloud-only view, findings live outside the main risk queue |
| Patch management | Deploys updates across the fleet | Stage 5, Mobilize (execution arm) | No idea which patch matters. Burns cycles on unexploitable noise |
CVEasy AI folds all six into one loop: agentless discovery and CSPM in stage 2, TRIS™ scoring in stage 3, BASzy™ validation in stage 4, and patch orchestration in stage 5.
The benefits, in the order your board cares about them:
The honest challenges, and how CVEasy was built around them:
Most CTEM programs stall on three things. Tool sprawl: the loop normally takes five products and three consoles, so CVEasy ships all five stages in one application. Data gravity: your exposure map is your most sensitive dataset, so CVEasy keeps it 100% local instead of in a vendor cloud. Team friction: security hands IT a PDF and hopes, so CVEasy hands IT the exact command, the verification step, and the rollback.
If you cannot measure the loop, you do not have a program, you have a subscription. These are the numbers that prove CTEM is working, and every one of them is a first-class object in CVEasy:
Take these into every vendor call, including ours.
CVEasy AI answers all eight, and number seven is the one no cloud vendor can match: the whole platform, AI included, runs on your hardware.
| CTEM Stage | CVEasy AI™ | Tenable | Qualys | Rapid7 | SafeBreach |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Scope (Asset Classification) | ✓ Auto | Manual | Manual | Manual | - |
| 2. Discover (Agentless) | ✓ Agentless | ✓ Scanner | ✓ Scanner | ✓ Scanner | Needs Agents |
| 3. Prioritize (Beyond CVSS) | ✓ TRIS™ v2 12-Layer (Patent Pending) | VPR | TruRisk | Risk Score | - |
| 4. Validate (Exploit Proof) | ✓ 150 Modules | - | - | - | ✓ BAS |
| 5. Mobilize (AI Remediation) | ✓ Exact Commands + Verify + Rollback | - | - | Generic | - |
| Cloud posture (CSPM/CIEM) | ✓ AWS + Azure + GCP | Add-On | Add-On | Add-On | - |
| Patch orchestration | ✓ Intune, Automox, Tanium, Jamf, PDQ | - | - | - | - |
| Local-First (Air-Gapped) | ✓ 100% | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud |
| Per-Asset Fees | ✓ None | Per Asset | Per Asset | Per Asset | Per Agent |
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Gartner's five stages broken down for practitioners, with what each stage actually requires in tooling and process.
A staged rollout plan: first scope, first loop, first board report. Built from real engagements, not analyst slides.
Why the exposure graph, the scoring engine, and the AI should run on your hardware instead of a vendor's cloud.
Score any CVE against your environment with the 12-layer model and see how contextual risk differs from CVSS.
Signed IOC and exploit intelligence bundles, published weekly, free to ingest into any stack.
The week's exploited vulns and exposure trends, TRIS-scored and prioritized, in your inbox every Monday.
No. CTEM is a program framework defined by Gartner in 2022. Vendors sell tools that support some or all of its five stages. Most cover one or two. CVEasy AI is built to run the entire loop in one application: scoping, discovery, TRIS™ prioritization, BASzy™ validation, and AI-driven mobilization.
Vulnerability management finds and ranks CVEs, usually by CVSS, on a periodic scan cycle. CTEM is continuous, covers the full exposure surface including misconfigurations, identity, and cloud posture, prioritizes by real-world exploitability and business impact, validates that exposures are actually exploitable, and closes the loop by verifying fixes landed.
No. Your scanners are stage 2 inputs. CVEasy consolidates findings from more than a hundred integrations (Nessus, Qualys, Rapid7, and others, spanning 57 file imports and 27 native API connectors), deduplicates them into one asset and attack-path graph, then runs prioritization, validation, and mobilization on top. You keep the scanning investment you already made.
Validation proves an exposure is exploitable before you spend remediation budget on it. BASzy™ runs real attack modules, 150 of them across 10 pre-built campaigns, against your environment and your controls (EDR, firewall, DLP, SIEM). After remediation, the same attack re-runs to prove the fix worked.
A CTEM platform holds your complete exposure map: every asset, every weakness, every attack path. Cloud platforms ship that map to a third party, which makes the vendor a single point of catastrophic compromise. CVEasy runs 100% on your hardware, works air-gapped, and your exposure data never leaves your building.
ASM maps what you have exposed, mostly from the outside in. That is stage 2 of CTEM, discovery of the external surface. CTEM wraps ASM with scoping, contextual prioritization, exploit validation, and a mobilization loop that verifies fixes. ASM tells you the doors exist; CTEM tells you which ones an attacker can open and gets them locked.
No. RBVM improves stage 3 by ranking CVEs with threat intel instead of raw CVSS, but it stays CVE-shaped, never validates exploitability, and ends at a prioritized list. CTEM covers the full exposure surface including misconfigurations, identity, and cloud posture, proves exploitability in stage 4, and drives fixes to verified closure in stage 5.
Any organization that patches by CVSS severity and hopes is a candidate. Mid-market teams arguably need it more: same attack surface classes, a fraction of the headcount, so wasted remediation effort hurts twice. CVEasy's local-first model was built for exactly that team, one application on hardware you own, no per-asset fees that grow with your own discovery.
Validated exposure count trending down, MTTR by priority band, SLA compliance per asset tier, validation coverage of the scope, fix verification rate, control efficacy against MITRE ATT&CK, and financial exposure avoided. See the measurement section above for how each maps to CVEasy.
With a scoped first slice, days, not quarters. CVEasy auto-classifies assets on import, scores findings immediately, and ships pre-built validation campaigns. A realistic first loop on a critical business segment runs inside the first week; broadening scope happens cycle by cycle. See our 90 day implementation plan.
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