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Security Fundamentals

What is CTEM? The Complete Guide to Continuous Threat Exposure Management

CTEM is a security framework developed by Gartner that shifts organisations from reacting to breaches to continuously finding, prioritising, and eliminating exposures before attackers exploit them. This guide explains what it is, why it matters, and how to implement it.

March 2026 12 min read
Dark Web Monitoring

How to Find Leaked Credentials on the Dark Web: A Practical Guide

Compromised credentials are responsible for 41% of data breaches. This guide explains where leaked credentials end up, how attackers use them, and how to monitor for your organisation's exposure before that window closes.

March 2026 10 min read
Security Leadership

Why Monthly Security Reports Beat Annual Audits: A Guide for Security Leaders

Annual security audits tell you what your risk posture was 12 months ago. Monthly security reports tell you what it is today. This guide explains why cadence is one of the most underrated variables in security management.

March 2026 9 min read
Brand Protection

What is Typosquatting? How Attackers Use Fake Domains, and How to Stop Them

Typosquatting is the registration of domains that closely resemble legitimate websites, designed to catch people who mistype a URL or click a convincing link. Here is how it works and what you can do about it.

March 2026 10 min read
Comparisons

Scrutex vs UpGuard: An Honest Comparison for Security Teams

UpGuard and Scrutex CyberInsights both address external risk management, but they approach it from different angles. This comparison lays out exactly what each tool does, where each falls short, and which is the better fit for different organisational needs.

March 2026 11 min read
Enterprise Security

What Continuous Monitoring Catches That Monthly Scans Miss

Monthly security scans are categorically better than quarterly or annual ones. Real-time continuous monitoring is categorically different from monthly scans. This post covers the specific risks that live in the gap between your monthly reports.

March 2026 10 min read
Third-Party Risk

Vendor Security Assessment Template: A Complete Framework (Free Download)

Third-party breaches account for the majority of significant data incidents. This guide provides a complete vendor security assessment framework with a downloadable template covering seven control domains.

March 2026 13 min read
Security Leadership

How to Present Security Risk to a Non-Technical Board: A Practical Guide for CISOs

Board members are not technical. Your job as a security leader is to translate technical risk into business risk, in a format that enables governance decisions. This guide explains how to do that, with a one-page board security summary template.

March 2026 11 min read
Security Operations

You're the Only Security Person at Your Company. Here's Your 90-Day Plan.

Being the sole security person at a growing company is one of the most overwhelming jobs in technology. This 90-day framework shows you exactly where to start, what to prioritise, and how to make your programme visible to leadership.

March 2026 13 min read
Practical Guides

How to Read a Security Scan Result When You're Not a Security Expert

You ran your first external security scan and now you're staring at hundreds of findings. This plain-English guide explains severity ratings, CVSS scores, false positives, and how to decide which findings to fix first.

March 2026 10 min read
Cyber Insurance

Cyber Insurance and Your External Attack Surface: What Underwriters Are Actually Checking

Cyber insurance premiums have risen 50 to 300% over the past three years. Underwriters now actively scan your external attack surface before quoting. Here is what they look for and how external risk monitoring directly affects your coverage and premium.

March 2026 11 min read
Identity & Access

The Hidden Cost of Employee Churn: Why Offboarding Is a Security Event

When an employee leaves, the HR process ends but the security risk does not. Credentials persist, API keys outlast employment contracts, and the average stolen credential sits idle for 41 days before being used.

March 2026 10 min read
Attack Surface

Your Competitors Can See Your Attack Surface. Can You?

Right now, anyone with a basic security tool and your company's domain name can see your internet-facing infrastructure, exposed services, and leaked credentials. The question is whether you can see it too.

March 2026 10 min read
Comparison

Best CTEM Platforms in 2026: An Honest Comparison for Security Teams

A practical comparison of the leading Continuous Threat Exposure Management platforms in 2026, covering features, pricing, deployment models, and who each platform is best suited for.

March 2026 14 min read
Guide

External Attack Surface Management Best Practices for 2026

A practical guide to external attack surface management: discovery, prioritisation, remediation, and continuous monitoring workflows that security teams can implement immediately.

March 2026 13 min read
Security Operations

How to Detect Brand Impersonation Online: A Practical Guide for Security Teams

Brand impersonation costs organisations millions annually. This guide explains how attackers clone your brand online, and what security teams can do to detect and shut down impersonation campaigns.

March 2026 11 min read
Compliance

RBI Cyber Resilience Guidelines and CTEM: Mapping Your Obligations

A practical guide for Indian BFSI security teams: how the Reserve Bank of India's cyber resilience framework maps to Continuous Threat Exposure Management, and what you need to implement.

March 2026 12 min read
Comparison

Scrutex vs Recorded Future: An Honest Comparison for Security Teams

Comparing Scrutex and Recorded Future across threat intelligence, attack surface management, pricing, and deployment. Two different approaches to external security visibility.

March 2026 11 min read
Comparison

Scrutex vs CrowdStrike Falcon: Different Tools for Different Problems

CrowdStrike Falcon and Scrutex solve fundamentally different security problems. This comparison explains where each platform fits and why many organisations need both.

March 2026 10 min read
Compliance

DORA Compliance Checklist: What Financial Sector Security Managers Need to Know in 2025

DORA compliance checklist for financial sector security managers: the 5 pillars explained, continuous monitoring obligations, and 20 actionable items to close your gaps.

March 2026 12 min read
Compliance

APRA CPS 234 Compliance: What Australian Financial Entities Must Do, and How to Evidence It

APRA CPS 234 compliance guide for Australian financial entities: 7 core requirements, the 6 gaps APRA found in its own audit, and how continuous monitoring builds your evidence trail.

March 2026 14 min read
Research

Notable Data Breach Incidents You Need to Know

A roundup of significant data breaches from the past year: what happened, what data was exposed, and what security teams can learn to reduce their own exposure.

February 2026 8 min read
Research

How Typosquatting Campaigns Evolved in 2025

Threat actors are registering hundreds of lookalike domains per campaign. Here's what defenders need to know.

February 2026 10 min read
Guide

CTEM vs Traditional Vulnerability Management: What's the Difference?

Continuous Threat Exposure Management shifts the question from 'are we patched?' to 'are we exposed?'. A crucial distinction.

January 2026 9 min read
Case Study

How a Financial Services Firm Cut Detection Time by 92%

By replacing manual dark web monitoring with Scrutex's automated curation, the team went from weeks to hours.

December 2025 8 min read