About
About CTEE
CTEE is an independent reference for CTEM (Continuous Threat Exposure Management). The site exists because exposure management is now a budgeted category, every vendor claims it, and buyers need an independent reference.
What we do
- Explain CTEM in plain language for practitioners and the people who approve their budgets.
- Maintain an editorial directory of vendors with honest coverage notes.
- Publish a free maturity self-assessment so teams can score their own program.
- Send one short newsletter a month.
Who is behind it
CTEE is written and maintained by Dan Swihart. It is run independently: not owned by or affiliated with any security vendor or analyst firm, and funded only by clearly labelled sponsorship and listings. Vendor summaries and assessment advice are the author's own and are revised when shown to be wrong.
Method
- Every vendor entry is compiled from public vendor documentation. Each entry records the CTEM stages we believe the product genuinely serves, scored 0 to 2 per stage against the published rubric.
- The self-assessment maps four statements to each of Gartner's five CTEM stages. Statements are scored 0 to 4; stage scores are the percentage of points earned; the overall score is the mean of the five stages. Maturity levels are fixed 20-point bands of that score.
- Saved assessment results (email, optional name, scores and answers) are stored so you can compare them next quarter and, in aggregate and anonymised, to publish benchmarks. The newsletter is a separate, optional choice. Details are in the privacy notice. Quick-check answers are never stored.
- Vendor entries and the directory carry a reviewed date. Corrections are logged on the page they affect.
Disclosure
There are no affiliate or referral links on the site today; if that changes, each one will be labelled. Directory listings are free; vendors can pay for a sponsored listing, which appears in a separate, clearly labelled block above the directory table, and one labelled sponsor appears in each newsletter issue. None of this changes what we write, how a product is scored or where it sits in the table. Editorial summaries in the directory are ours, unpaid, and corrected when we are shown to be wrong.
Dan also takes on a small number of fixed-price CTEM advisory engagements, under a published conflict rule: Work with Dan.
Contact
Corrections, tips and partnership enquiries: hello@ctee.org.