NSFOCUS was Selected as a Representative Provider of Gartner® “Innovation Insight: Adversarial Exposure Validation in China”

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 24, 2025 – Recently, Gartner released the 2025 “Innovation Insight: Adversarial Exposure Validation in China”¹, NSFOCUS was selected as a Representative Provider for its adversarial exposure validation (AEV) capability in the continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) service.

Why has ASM become a pain point for enterprises?

Asset data is scattered and lacks a unified asset account

Enterprise assets are scattered in various systems, and their comprehensiveness, accuracy and real-time performance are difficult to guarantee. The security department needs to sort out a unified network asset management account.

Lack of external attack surface management (EASM)

The Internet exposure has increased, the asset types are numerous and wide-ranging, and there is a lack of monitoring and mapping management of exposed assets, making it difficult to timely detect changes in external assets and locate internal assets.

Massive risks cannot be prioritized

As the business develops and expands, the number of assets and new vulnerabilities is growing exponentially. Prioritizing risks has become a new problem that enterprises must face.

Risk offline closed-loop efficiency is low

The risk closed loop is not connected with the existing IT process system of the enterprise, resulting in difficulty in combining security work with daily operation and low disposal efficiency.

In response to the above pain points, NSFOCUS has proposed CTEM solution that covers all assets, vulnerabilities, and sensitive data based on vulnerability management, through internal and external asset mapping, continuous assessment and verification, and closed-loop operation.

NSFOCUS CTEM: Implementation plan from exposure to governance

Scenario-based asset management

NSFOCUS CTEM provides multi-dimensional asset management capabilities from the attacker’s perspective. By integrating internal and external data, companies can fully understand asset exposure and avoid security blind spots. For example, the solution supports monitoring of internal assets, shadow assets, Internet exposure threats, data leakage and other scenarios to ensure comprehensive and accurate asset management.

Multi-source data integration

NSFOCUS CTEM supports the access and integration of multi-source security data, including active scanning engines, passive traffic engines, EASM, BAS, penetration testing, CMDB, and third-party vendor security products. After data scrubbing and consolidation, it provides comprehensive analysis capabilities to help enterprises extract valuable security information from massive data.

Intelligent risk assessment and convergence

NSFOCUS CTEM uses deep learning to evaluate the priority of vulnerabilities and achieve continuous assessment and dynamic convergence of risks. Through vulnerability scanning, threat intelligence analysis and attack simulation, enterprises can quickly identify high-risk assets and take targeted protective measures.

CTEM core value

Establish a unified asset account to improve asset visibility

NSFOCUS CTEM accesses internal asset systems and Internet mapping data, uses traffic protocol analysis technology to passively identify assets, comprehensively sorts out customers’ internal and external network assets, and establishes a detailed asset account through comprehensive asset collection and analysis, which can clearly see the risk status of global assets.

Accurate risk identification and positioning to optimize attack surface management

NSFOCUS CTEM conducts a comprehensive assessment from multiple dimensions such as assets, vulnerabilities, weak passwords, non-compliant configurations and external attack surfaces to understand enterprise security risks. With the help of advanced vulnerability priority assessment methods, it guides users to track the mitigation status of key assets and key vulnerabilities, perform indicator operations, and present the results of security management work.

Build a dynamic operating system to promote continuous improvement

NSFOCUS CTEM has built a dynamic asset sorting and risk operation system that encourages organizations to continuously review and improve their own security practices, allowing users to clearly understand corporate asset risks, effectively close the loop for repair, and continuously accumulate corporate knowledge base in the process to improve risk operation capabilities.

When enterprises are in the stage of upgrading from traditional vulnerability management to closed-loop attack surface management, they need to invest more resources and cross-departmental collaboration to support complex security scenarios. NSFOCUS will continue to expand the adapter access capabilities and large language model application scenarios of the CTEM platform to guarantee enterprise security.

[1] Gartner, Innovation Insight: Adversarial Exposure Validation in China, 18 March 2025

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