Stop managing vulnerabilities. Start managing business risk.
Vulnerability exploitation now starts 31% of breaches — but two-thirds begin somewhere else: credentials, misconfigurations and identity gaps.¹ Accenture Edge continuously identifies these exposures and prioritizes remediation by business risk, so security teams can focus on the threats most likely to cause harm.
AI operations
Your security posture improves with every cycle, not just every engagement. Our agentic security operations capability runs continuously across identity, cloud and endpoint environments, analyzing exposure patterns in real time and improving risk prioritization accuracy with each cycle.
Threat intelligence
Every finding is tied to your actual exposure, not a generic vulnerability framework. Attack surface discovery and risk prioritization are built on the industry's leading endpoint and threat intelligence platform, so each finding reflects your real risk posture rather than a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score that treats all vulnerabilities equally.¹
Risk prioritization
AI analysis prioritizes which vulnerabilities to fix based on business risk. This broader view matters because 85% of successful intrusions involve compromised credentials or exposed identities.²
Consolidated operations
Your point-in-time testing stack, replaced by one managed program.
The CTEM managed service consolidates multiple point-in-time testing tools into a single continuously managed program. One unified view of the actual attack surface and a lower cost of security operations.
Assess and plan
We map your attack surface across internal, external and cloud environments, then assess exposure against business risk. You get a ranked list of high-risk exposures, a remediation baseline and a service scope grounded in live discovery.
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Deploy and configure
Continuous discovery goes live across your environment, aligned to the scope and priorities set in assess and plan. AI ranks exposures by business impact, and your security team gets guidance on the highest-risk findings first.
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Confirm and enforce
The attack surface model stays live as exposures are tracked to closure. Your team can measure time-to-patch and posture against the original baseline, with a before-and-after report for your board.
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Expand and scale
Coverage extends to AI workloads, operational technology and additional cloud environments as the program matures. CTEM findings feed prioritized alerts and configured response workflows into your SOC, without resetting the engagement.
AI-driven operations
Agentic security operations run continuously across identity, cloud and endpoint environments, improving risk prioritization accuracy with every cycle.
Risk-led remediation
AI analysis closes the highest-risk exposures first — not the ones with the highest CVSS scores.
CrowdStrike Falcon platform
Falcon Exposure Management powered by Charlotte AI, Falcon Surface, Falcon Intelligence and Falcon OverWatch put findings in the context of your real risk posture.
One managed program
Multiple point-in-time testing tools consolidated into a single continuously managed program with a unified view of your attack surface.
Measurable posture improvement
Tracked against the baseline established at scoping — not a point-in-time report that goes stale.
Built-in value, from start to finish
- Continuously updated attack surface model with real-time exposure visibility across identity, cloud and endpoint environments.
- Shortened time-to-patch with guided remediation verified against business impact, not a CVSS backlog.
- AI-prioritized remediation roadmap tied to actual business risk, not vulnerability scores. Highest-risk exposures close first.
- Continuous posture improvement tracked against the baseline established at scoping, not a point-in-time report that goes stale.
- AI driven operations with consolidated tooling and a measurable reduction in cost of security operations.
- Executive-ready reporting that shows exposure trend, remediation ownership and evidence-based risk reduction over time.
Frequently asked questions
Vulnerability management finds issues; CTEM fixes them. The gap between a CVE list and actual risk reduction is where breaches happen. CTEM as a Service shifts the focus from patch counts to the exposures most likely to lead to a real breach — and closes the loop from finding to fix to verified outcome.
Yes — that’s exactly the point of the service. Accenture operates the full program, including the cross-team coordination most high-growth organizations can’t build internally. You don’t need to staff up; we handle it.
You don't have to commit blind. The CTEM Discovery Workshop maps your attack surface, identifies duplicative spend and produces a cost justification before you commit to anything. By the end, you'll have the numbers to make the call with confidence.
Tools surface exposures; they don't connect findings to remediation owners, validate fixes or produce an executive risk-reduction story. That's the gap CTEM as a Service closes — turning scattered alerts into coordinated action and outcomes leadership can actually act on.
31% of breaches start with CVE exploitation — more than any other vector.1 Yet most attacks take a different path, moving through credentials, misconfigurations and identity gaps that a patching program never touches. Scanning and patching is necessary, but it still leaves most of your attack surface unaddressed.
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Sources
¹ Newsroom.accenture.com (Accenture + CrowdStrike partnership, 2025)
² Gartner, Top Cybersecurity Trends for 2024.
³ World Economic Forum, “Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026.”