# AttackIQ: Proactively Manage Threat Exposure with CTEM

> Run CTEM end\-to\-end\. Turn intelligence into action\. Validate security controls, break attack paths, and reduce threat debt — continuously, in one system\.

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## Pages
- [INFORM: Advance Your Threat\-Informed Defense](https://www.attackiq.com/inform/)
- [Continuous Threat Exposure Management](https://www.attackiq.com/ctem/): eatured Resource From Security Gaps to Continuous Validation Point\-in\-time security tests aren’t enough\. Continuous validation ensures your defenses are always ready by proactively identifying and addressing threat exposure\. Learn how AEV enhances your security posture through the five stages of CTEM—before attackers can exploit them\.
- [Home](https://www.attackiq.com/): eatured Resource From Security Gaps to Continuous Validation Point\-in\-time security tests aren’t enough\. Continuous validation ensures your defenses are always ready by proactively identifying and addressing threat exposure\. Learn how AEV enhances your security posture through the five stages of CTEM—before attackers can exploit them\.
- [Inform Tool](https://www.attackiq.com/inform-tool/)
- [Platform](https://www.attackiq.com/platform/): eatured Resource From Security Gaps to Continuous Validation Point\-in\-time security tests aren’t enough\. Continuous validation ensures your defenses are always ready by proactively identifying and addressing threat exposure\. Learn how AEV enhances your security posture through the five stages of CTEM—before attackers can exploit them\.

## Posts
- [Inside Everest Ransomware: Dissecting a ConfuserEx\-Protected \.NET Encryptor with Wake\-on\-LAN Capabilities](https://www.attackiq.com/2026/07/02/everest-ransomware/): AttackIQ has created and released a new assessment that emulates the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures \(TTPs\) associated with the deployment of Everest ransomware to help customers validate their security controls and their ability to defend against this threat\.
- [Finding Flaws Got Easy\. That Broke How We Measure Exposure\.](https://www.attackiq.com/2026/07/08/finding-flaws-got-easy/)
- [The Vulnerability Management Race Is Over\. It’s Time to Focus on Exposure\.](https://www.attackiq.com/2026/04/17/its-time-to-focus-on-exposure/): With Anthropic’s Mythos Preview announcement, the race to patch all vulnerabilities is over\. As defenders, we must move on\.
- [Threat Debt: The Unit of Measure Adversaries Already Use Against You](https://www.attackiq.com/2026/06/25/threat-debt-the-unit-of-measure-adversaries-already-use-against-you/): Threat debt measures the exploitable attack paths adversaries can actually use\. Learn how the Threat Debt Index helps security teams prioritize remediation, reduce exposure, and prove risk reduction\.
- [Back to the Prompt: Why AI Is Taking Us Full Circle to the DOS Era](https://www.attackiq.com/2026/06/02/back-to-the-prompt/): From clicks back to commands: AI is bringing back the command line, but this time the machine speaks your language\. Explore the future of computing\.

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## Glossary
- [Threat\-Informed Defense](https://www.attackiq.com/glossary/threat-informed-defense/): MITRE defines threat\-informed defense as the strategy of “applying a deep understanding of adversary tradecraft and technology to protect against, detect, and mitigate cyberattacks\.” The AttackIQ Security Optimization Platform enables a threat\-informed defense through continuous, automated adversary emulations that test your cyberdefenses against well\-defined threats, using the MITRE ATT\&CK framework, and then measures the effectiveness of those defenses and executes improvements continuously\.
- [AttackIQ Informed Defense Architecture \(AIDA\)](https://www.attackiq.com/glossary/attackiq-informed-defense-architecture-aida/): AIDA is a scalable and open testing architecture for verifying the integrity and effectiveness of security controls\. AIDA uses test points deployed at scale in the production network to safely emulate attacker behavior across the kill chain\. It combines multiple behavioral techniques to offer the broadest and deepest control validation solution available, with the best alignment to the MITRE ATT\&CK matrix\. AIDA is API\-first and fully integrateable into other systems\. The AIDA content library is fully open as well; users can inspect the tests, modify them, and create their own tests\.
- [Automated Security Control Validation](https://www.attackiq.com/glossary/automated-security-control-validation/): Automated security control validation is the process of measuring and validating your security control performance in an automated fashion\. The AttackIQ Security Optimization Platform tests and validates that your security controls are working as intended and does so in a continuous and automated manner across your security program, using scenarios and assessments aligned to threat intelligence and adversary behaviors in the MITRE ATT\&CK® framework\. With real\-time data on the performance of your controls, you can make smarter decisions and adjustments to your technology, processes, and personnel\. The benefits of continuous testing go far beyond security control validation into workforce management, compliance optimization, and investment decision support\.
- [Attack Graphs](https://www.attackiq.com/glossary/attack-graphs/): Attack Graphs align adversary tactics, techniques, and behaviors in a chain to emulate the adversary with specificity and realism and test a range of security controls within an environment\. They make it easier for organizations to visually measure their defense performance against a series of attacks\. Attack Graphs emerged from the AttackIQ Anatomic Engine, a component within the Security Optimization Platform designed from the ground\-up to test ML/AI\-based cybersecurity technologies\. It combines the industry’s leading atomic testing capabilities with the most comprehensive adversary emulation capabilities on the market, making it easy for operators to recreate and evoke complex, multi\-stage adversary campaigns that reflect the adversary\.
- [Compliance Optimization](https://www.attackiq.com/glossary/compliance-optimization/): Compliance optimization is the process of applying a threat\-informed defense strategy to measure your compliance effectiveness, improve your cybersecurity readiness, and decrease your regulatory burden\. The AttackIQ Security Optimization Platform aligns your threat and risk management frameworks, validating your security effectiveness using real\-world threat behaviors from the MITRE ATT\&CK framework and measuring your compliance performance under the NIST 800\-53 family of security controls and DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model \(CMMC\)\.

## Landing Pages
- [Black Hat USA 2026](https://www.attackiq.com/lp/black-hat-2026/): Black Hat 2026: Visit AttackIQ at Booth 1957 to see CTEM in action, explore threat debt, Watchtower, MITRE INFORM, and more\.
- [FIRST Conference 2026](https://www.attackiq.com/lp/first-conference-2026/): Join Jon Baker to explore the INFORM maturity model, assess your threat\-informed defense program, and connect with peers at an exclusive happy hour\.
- [Infosecurity Europe 2026](https://www.attackiq.com/lp/infosecurity-europe-2026/): Stop at Booth B105 and see how we operationalize CTEM, turning exposure management into measurable risk reduction\.
- [CTEM in 90 Days Challenge](https://www.attackiq.com/lp/ctem-in-90-days/)
- [AttackIQ Partner Champion Training](https://www.attackiq.com/lp/partner-champion-training/)

## Resources
- [AttackIQ Named to 2026 MES Midmarket 100 List for Second Consecutive Year, Recognizing Continued Leadership in Operationalizing CTEM for Midsize Enterprises](https://www.attackiq.com/resources/press-release/attackiq-named-to-2026-mes-midmarket-100-list/): Award highlights company's continued momentum helping midsize enterprises reduce threat debt by validating real attack paths and prioritizing the exposures that matter most\.
- [CTEM \+ MITRE INFORM](https://www.attackiq.com/resources/webinars/ctem-mitre-inform/): CTEM \+ MITRE INFORM made simple: learn to operationalize exposure management and measure real security maturity and risk reduction\.
- [CTEM in 90 Days: Launching Your First CTEM Cycle](https://www.attackiq.com/resources/webinars/ctem-in-90/): Launch CTEM in 90 days with a practical roadmap for building repeatable exposure validation and operational security maturity\.
- [Introducing the Threat Debt Index™ for Quantifying and Managing Adversary Opportunity](https://www.attackiq.com/resources/white-paper/threat-debt/): Get a metric that matters\. Measure threat debt—the adversary opportunity in your environment—and reduce it systematically\.
- [Advancing MITRE ATLAS Through Collaborative R\&D](https://www.attackiq.com/resources/webinars/advancing-mitre-atlas/): AI systems are now embedded in critical infrastructure, business operations, and security tooling—and adversaries have taken notice\. MITRE ATLAS™ maps how attackers target the models, data, infrastructure, and supply chains behind these systems\. Join AttackIQ and MITRE's Center for Threat\-Informed Defense for a deep dive into the latest Secure AI release and what's next\.

## Testimonials
- [Director of Security Operations \- Retail](https://www.attackiq.com/testimonial/director-of-security-operations-retail-10/)
- [Director of Security Operations \- Retail](https://www.attackiq.com/testimonial/director-of-security-operations-retail-5/)
- [Director of Security Operations \- Retail](https://www.attackiq.com/testimonial/director-of-security-operations-retail-6/)
- [Director of Security Operations \- Retail](https://www.attackiq.com/testimonial/director-of-security-operations-retail-7/)
- [Director of Security Operations \- Retail](https://www.attackiq.com/testimonial/director-of-security-operations-retail-8/)

## GreenShift Stylebook
- [Greenshift Stylebook](https://www.attackiq.com/gspbstylebook/greenshift-stylebook/)

## Categories
- [Threat Research](https://www.attackiq.com/category/research/)
- [Insights \& Perspectives](https://www.attackiq.com/category/insights/)
- [Threat Advisories](https://www.attackiq.com/category/advisories/)
- [Product \& Platform](https://www.attackiq.com/category/platform/)
- [Industry \& Community](https://www.attackiq.com/category/community/)

## Tags
- [Ransomware](https://www.attackiq.com/tag/ransomware/)
- [Broad\-Based Attacks](https://www.attackiq.com/tag/broad-based-attacks/)
- [Cybersecurity](https://www.attackiq.com/tag/cybersecurity/)
- [TTPs](https://www.attackiq.com/tag/ttps/)
- [Security Controls](https://www.attackiq.com/tag/security-controls/)

## Industries
- [Retail](https://www.attackiq.com/industry/retail/)
- [Fortune 50 Retailer](https://www.attackiq.com/industry/fortune-50-retailer/)
- [Biosciences](https://www.attackiq.com/industry/biosciences/)
- [Insurance](https://www.attackiq.com/industry/insurance/)
- [Facility Management Services](https://www.attackiq.com/industry/facility-management-services/)

## Resource Categories
- [News](https://www.attackiq.com/resource-category/news/)
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- [Webinars](https://www.attackiq.com/webinars/)
- [CISO Guides](https://www.attackiq.com/resource-category/white-paper/)
- [Datasheets](https://www.attackiq.com/resource-category/datasheet/)

## Use Cases
- [Automated Testing](https://www.attackiq.com/use-case/automated-testing/)
- [Ease of Use](https://www.attackiq.com/use-case/ease-of-use/)
- [Demonstrate ROI](https://www.attackiq.com/use-case/demonstrate-roi/)
- [Save Time](https://www.attackiq.com/use-case/save-time/)
- [Security Control Effectiveness](https://www.attackiq.com/use-case/security-control-effectiveness/)

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