CTEM & Threat Intelligence
10 articles
What is a Business Impact (BI) Score?
How PentaTrail computes the BI Score from three axes (purpose / data_classification / availability), and how it combines with TDL to produce TER bands.
Threat Exposure Risk: Integrating Technical Risk and Business Risk
How PentaTrail's Threat Exposure Risk framework unifies technical threat severity with business impact for holistic risk assessment.
What is Threat Discovery Level (TDL)? — Vulnerability Ranking from CVSS × EPSS
How PentaTrail computes Threat Discovery Level (TDL) — the 5-step vulnerability ranking — and how Evidence Grade, AI Deep Scan, and KEV adjust the result.
Leveraging the KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities) Catalog
How to use CISA's KEV catalog to identify actively exploited vulnerabilities and integrate it into your security strategy.
What is EPSS? Prioritizing Vulnerabilities by Exploitation Probability
How EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) works and how combining it with CVSS enables smarter vulnerability prioritization.
Understanding CVSS Scores — And Their Limitations
How CVSS scoring works, how to interpret scores, and why CVSS alone isn't enough for effective vulnerability prioritization.
What is CTEM? A Complete Guide to the 5 Phases
An overview of CTEM (Continuous Threat Exposure Management), how it differs from traditional vulnerability management, and why organizations should adopt it.
ASM (Attack Surface Management) — A Beginner's Guide
What is Attack Surface Management, why it matters, and how to get started with continuous external attack surface monitoring.
Shadow IT: How to Surface and Manage the Risks You Can't See
What shadow IT is, why it grows in modern organizations, and how Attack Surface Management (ASM) brings the unseen risks under control.
What is a Security Score? PentaTrail's 400-Point Model for Quantifying Your Attack Surface
PentaTrail's Executive Dashboard shows a composite score on a 400-point scale, made up of three axes: Threat, Management Maturity, and Response. Here's what each axis means and how it's measured.