CTEM and Resilience Validation
Tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are published every year, and scanners return thousands of results. CTEM organizes this work: we constantly discover what is exposed to attack, determine what matters, and check if it can be exploited in a safe, controlled attack. Powered by Pentera and Check Point technologies.
31%
of breaches start with the exploitation of a vulnerability – for the first time more often than from password theft. This is according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2026.1
48,185
vulnerabilities (CVEs) were published in 2025 – 20.6% more than the previous year.2
67%
of large companies in the US had a breach in the last 24 months, despite extensive toolsets.3
2,000
alerts per week are received by companies using more than 75 security tools.3
3×
lower risk of breach was predicted by Gartner for 2026 for organizations investing according to a CTEM program.4
Conclusion: the problem is not a lack of information about vulnerabilities, but an excess of it. CTEM narrows the list down to what an attacker can actually exploit in your environment – and tests it in practice.
Scenarios from Verizon, Pentera, and Check Point reports. None require an unknown flaw – a known weakness that no one linked to others or tested in practice is enough. For each: what our technology does in this area.
A test server, an old subdomain, an admin panel exposed “for a moment.” Attackers scan the internet non-stop – company inventory is only updated once in a while.
Check Point Exposure Management: automatically discovers the organization’s attack surface and correlates it with attacker activity – campaigns, exploited vulnerabilities, and malicious infrastructure.5
VPN, firewall, email gateway – devices at the interface with the internet are the first target. According to Verizon, 31% of breaches start with the exploitation of a vulnerability.1 And a vendor’s patch isn’t always available immediately.
Check Point Exposure Management: sets priorities based on real exploitability, business context, and existing security controls, and can enable a virtual patch or IPS rule via API in already running tools until a patch is released.5
The scanner reports thousands of vulnerabilities, but the team only has time for a few dozen. Companies with over 75 security tools receive about 2,000 alerts per week.3
Pentera: confirms which weaknesses can actually be exploited in your environment and determines the order of remediation based on proven risk.6
A weak password, an account with excessive privileges, an unpatched server. Each of these things alone has a “medium” rating. Together, they lead to a domain takeover.
Pentera Core: conducts automated validation of the internal network and shows verified attack paths – step by step, from entry point to target.6
There’s EDR, there’s segmentation, there’s SIEM – but will they stop a real attack? 67% of large companies in the US had a breach within two years, despite an average of 75 security tools.3
Pentera: operates in the production environment and checks whether security controls stop actual attack techniques – not just whether they are turned on.6
The ticket is closed, but the patch didn’t cover all servers, the configuration reverted to the previous one, and the attack path still exists.
Pentera: repeats the test after remediation to confirm that the exposure is gone. Pentera Resolve automates the handover of remediation tasks to teams.6
A vulnerability scan once a month and a penetration test once a year is common practice. But the environment changes every week, and the attacker doesn’t wait for a schedule.
The CVSS score tells you how dangerous a vulnerability is in theory. It doesn’t tell you if it can be exploited in your network.
Pentera
Pentera conducts automated penetration tests designed to work in production environments – in the internal network, on internet-facing assets, and in the cloud. Instead of a list of potential problems, you get verified attack paths and priorities based on proof.6
Pentera Core: internal network validation – from the first foothold to key systems.
Pentera Surface: external attack surface validation – what an attacker sees from the outside.
Pentera Cloud: validation of cloud identities and hybrid environments.
Every finding shown as a verified path: from entry point to target.
You fix what actually leads to the target first – not what has the highest CVSS score.
Pentera Resolve automates the remediation workflow, and a retest confirms that the exposure is gone.
According to Pentera: the platform is used by over 1,200 companies in more than 60 countries.7
Validation answers the question “can this be exploited?”. Before that, you need to know what is even exposed to attack and what attackers are exploiting right now.
This part is covered by Check Point Exposure Management – based on Cyberint and Veriti technologies and Check Point’s global threat visibility.5
Article 21(2) of the directive lists vulnerability handling and disclosure (point e) and policies and procedures to assess the effectiveness of risk management measures (point f).8
The amendment to Poland’s National Cybersecurity System Act (KSC Act) implementing NIS2 is effective from April 3, 2026. Essential and important entities have until April 3, 2027, to implement the obligations, and managers are also responsible for cybersecurity.9
Articles 24–26 require a resilience testing program – from vulnerability assessments to penetration tests – and for designated financial entities, advanced TLPT tests at least once every three years.10
Regulations do not specify products. Continuous validation provides what they require: documented proof that security controls are working and a trail of what has been remediated.
SafeWave has been operating since 1998 as a vendor-agnostic integrator. We build the CTEM program in five stages described by Gartner and repeat it in a cycle.4
We determine what we protect first: critical systems, internet assets, cloud, identities.
Check Point Exposure Management discovers assets and exposures – including those outside of inventory.
We correlate exposures with attacker activity and what is important for your business.
Pentera checks in a controlled attack what can actually be exploited and through which path.
We hand over tasks to system owners, monitor deadlines, and repeat the test after remediation. Support in English and Polish.
Let’s start with a controlled test in your environment. We will show verified attack paths and a list of fixes in an order that makes sense.