NetSPI Expands CTEM Offering

By Christina Richmond

The Announcement

The cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve with an increasing focus on proactive security measures. In response, NetSPI announced significant advancements to The NetSPI Platform. These enhancements represent a forward development in the continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) space, an approach that has gained traction among organizations seeking more comprehensive security postures. This consolidation of security functions addresses a key challenge faced by many security teams: tool sprawl and integration complexity.

The platform now includes:

• Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM): This feature provides real-time visibility into assets and security controls - addressing the fundamental challenge of maintaining accurate internal asset inventory in complex environments.

• Digital Risk Protection Services: The enhanced dark web monitoring and threat intelligence capabilities represent the growing recognition that external threat landscapes must be continuously monitored alongside internal vulnerabilities.

• Breach and Attack Simulation as a Service: The shift to an as-a-service model reflects industry trends toward operational flexibility and expands Azure simulation scenarios indicating recognition of the hybrid cloud reality most enterprises face.

• LLM Testing: The expansion of testing capabilities for large language models acknowledges the rapid adoption of generative AI technologies and the unique security challenges they present.

• M&A Cybersecurity Testing: This specialized assessment package addresses the often-overlooked security aspects of mergers and acquisitions - a critical area where security gaps frequently emerge during business transitions.

• Post-Incident Response Services: The expansion of these services highlights the industry recognition that incident response cannot be viewed as a standalone function but must feed back into proactive security measures.

What It Means In The Market

As organizations struggle with fragmented security tools and limited resources, platforms that integrate capabilities from asset and exposure discovery to security operations represent a natural maturation of the cybersecurity market. This platformization trend addresses the reality that discrete point solutions, while powerful individually, often create operational silos and leave visibility gaps that sophisticated attackers can exploit.

The market implications extend beyond technical consolidation. As CTEM becomes a strategic framework rather than a tactical approach, platforms that enable continuous visibility, validation, and remediation will reshape security team structures and workflows.

Organizations will increasingly evaluate security vendors based on their ability to support the entire security lifecycle while providing meaningful context across all attack surfaces. Today, not all vendors that provide products and services within the CTEM framework offer internal discovery (CAASM). The shift toward greater lifecycle platformization and inclusion of CAASM may accelerate market consolidation as vendors race to build or acquire capabilities that complete their CTEM offerings, potentially leaving specialized tools without integration capabilities at a competitive disadvantage.

The integration of these capabilities within a single platform potentially addresses the operational inefficiencies that have plagued cybersecurity teams. However, the effectiveness will ultimately depend on seamless integration, usability, and the ability to provide actionable intelligence rather than simply more security data. Additionally, CTEM as a framework can only go so far toward this goal. Many offerings in the CTEM arena do not easily port data from discovery findings to the operational side of the house. If platforms are to simplify practitioner overwhelm, the industry must make use of asset exposure, criticality and remediation suggestions and seamlessly operationalize them.

Our Opinion

Hats off to NetSPI for continuing to expand and improve its CTEM framework offerings. The company has done much post-pandemic to reframe its offerings into the CTEM philosophy, has inorganically grown its capabilities with the smart acquisition of Hubble last year, and is consistent in its messaging.

As the CTEM market develops further, NetSPI's focused approach and commitment to platform consolidation positions it well among larger competitors that may struggle with legacy product integration and messaging cohesion. This strategic clarity should resonate with organizations seeking practical implementations of CTEM frameworks rather than disconnected point solutions relabeled to fit market trends.