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The CTEM Lifecycle, run by Zafran
Continuous threat exposure management on one platform: discover every asset and finding, prove what is exploitable, mitigate with the controls you already own, route the fixes, and report the result, with AI agents running the loop under human oversight.
01 · Continuous Discovery & Detection
Agentless, runtime-aware inventory of every asset, component and finding across hybrid cloud.
Zafran builds a live, runtime-aware inventory of every asset, software component and finding across hybrid cloud, endpoints, servers and containers.
- Exposure Graph: assets to findings
- Normalized, de-duplicated findings
- Agentless Zafran Detector
02 · Assess & Validate
Prove what is actually exploitable using runtime presence, reachability, threat intel and control coverage.
Zafran scores every finding on exploitability rather than CVSS alone: runtime presence, internet reachability, exploitation in the wild, asset criticality and the mitigating controls already in place.
- Exploitability score
- From criticals to exploitable
- Evidence behind every verdict
03 · Risk Mitigation
Close the exposure window now with the security controls you already own, without waiting on patch cycles.
Zafran closes the exposure window before a patch exists or is scheduled by activating the compensating controls you already own: EDR, firewall, WAF, IPS and identity.
- Compensating controls, ready to switch on
- Step-by-step mitigation guidance
- Exposure window, closed
04 · Remediation Workflows
Consolidate, route and track fixes across Security and IT with AI-optimized remediation plans.
RemOps turns thousands of findings into a short list of fixes.
- Many findings, one ticket
- Ticket noise reduction
- AI-optimized remediation plan
05 · Reporting & Analytics
Board-ready exposure reporting with validation evidence, SLA tracking and trend analytics.
Zafran gives CISOs a board-ready exposure map and gives operators the SLA, MTTR and trend analytics behind it.
- Exposure trend over time
- Board-ready exposure map
- SLA and MTTR tracking
06 · Agentic Exposure Management
Autonomous AI agents that investigate, validate and mobilize across the entire lifecycle with human oversight.
Zafran agents run the exposure lifecycle end to end: they hunt zero-day exposure, validate exploitability, find asset owners, analyze impact and draft the report, then wait for a human to approve the action.
- Top Exploitable Vulnerabilities
- Zero-Day Exposure Hunting
- Exploitability Validation
Compare
CTEM vs. traditional vulnerability management
Same scanners, different operating model: continuous, validated and mitigation-first instead of periodic and CVSS-driven.
| Dimension | CTEM with Zafran | Traditional VM |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment frequency | Continuous | Periodic |
| Risk focus | Validated exploitable threats | All vulnerabilities |
| Prioritization criteria | Runtime, exposure, threat intel, defenses, criticality | CVSS score |
| Outcome | Targeted remediation, faster MTTR | Patching compliance |
| Mitigation | Existing controls, now | Patch or accept |
FAQ
CTEM and Zafran: questions buyers ask
What is Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)?
CTEM is a program approach, popularized by Gartner, for continuously discovering, prioritizing, validating and acting on exposures rather than running periodic vulnerability scans. Zafran delivers the lifecycle on one platform: discovery and detection, assessment and validation, mitigation, remediation workflows, reporting and analytics, run by AI agents with human oversight.
How does Zafran's CTEM lifecycle differ from Gartner's five stages?
Gartner describes Scoping, Discovery, Prioritization, Validation and Mobilization. Zafran's lifecycle maps to the same outcomes but is organized around what the product does: it separates mitigation via existing controls from remediation workflows, adds reporting as its own stage, and places agentic exposure management at the center.
Do I need to replace my vulnerability scanner to run CTEM with Zafran?
No. Zafran ingests findings from the scanners, cloud security and AppSec tools you already run, adds agentless runtime detection, and de-duplicates everything into one Exposure Graph.
What does "validated exploitability" mean?
A finding is validated when Zafran has confirmed the vulnerable component is loaded at runtime, the asset is reachable, exploitation is feasible or observed in the wild, and no existing control blocks the attack path. Only validated exposures drive mitigation and remediation.
How quickly can a team start the CTEM lifecycle with Zafran?
Because deployment is agentless and integration-based, most teams connect their cloud accounts and existing security tools first and see validated exposure in the same session. Exact onboarding times depend on environment size and are covered in the demo.
Run the whole lifecycle on one platform
See how Zafran discovers, validates, mitigates, remediates and reports on exposure, with agents doing the legwork.