Legacy players were designed for a different era. They deliver siloed, point-in-time vulnerability scans and compliance reports, but stop short of addressing the challenges that matter most:
Find the 2% of exposures driving 80% of risk by using business context and threat intel.
Unify siloed, incompatible signals from tens of narrow tools into a single risk framework.
Translate cyber-risk in financial terms to help communicate business-risk to the board.
Understand cyber solutions efficacy and prove the ROI on every dollar spent in security.
Where legacy players leave gaps, Balbix goes deep across six critical CTEM dimensions.
| CTEM dimension | Scanning player | Compliance player | VM + detection player | Visibility payer | Balbix advantage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Severity and threat signals |
Strong CVE detection, but fragmented across many vendors / tools. | Good at scanning for compliance (PCI, CIS). | CVE detection plus threat intel integration. | Primarily asset data, limited vulnerability analysis. | Aggregate 100M signals daily, correlating vulnerabilities, misconfigs, exploit intel, and business context into a unified risk model. |
2 Instance-level control efficacy |
Checks deployment, not actual effectiveness. | Focused on reporting, not validation. | Limited in validating if controls block threats. | Asset view only, no control testing. | Validates 20M+ control mappings in real time, testing EDR, MFA, segmentation, and cloud policies to provide defensible assurance. |
3 Risk propagation modeling |
Focused on scanning, no risk propagation modeling. | Static compliance-style reports, no propagation. | Limited context for chaining exposures. | Asset inventory only, no risk propagation modeling. | Dynamically calculates risk propagation across IT, cloud, OT, and IoT, showing the real impact of exposures in material breach scenarios. |
4 Prioritization and actionability |
Outputs large queues of CVEs. | Prioritization tied mostly to CVSS scores. | Some context-aware prioritization in Insight platform. | No prioritization capability. | Context-driven prioritization factoring adversary TTPs, exploit likelihood, control efficacy, and business impact — surfacing the 2% of exposures driving most risk. Enterprises cut patch backlogs by 40%. |
5 Businesscontext |
Technical severity only. | Strong compliance mapping, but limited financial context. | Doesn’t tie risk to dollars, primarily technical focus. | Asset data only, no financial context. | Maps every asset to owner, sensitivity, and blast radius, then quantifies potential breaches in financial terms. CISOs walk into boardrooms with dollar-based scenarios and ROI models. |
6 Telemetry quality |
Broad scanner coverage, integrates with VM ecosystem. | Cloud-based platform with continuous scanning. | Integration with detection/response tools. | Strong asset aggregation across multiple systems. | Unifies telemetry from 150+ tools (VM, EDR, CNAPP, IAM, ITSM, cloud) into a living, continuously updated asset inventory, improving visibility by 87%. |
Balbix transforms exposure management from a compliance checkbox into a measurable, board-ready program. Customers report:
Legacy tools stop at scanning. Balbix delivers continuous, contextualized, and quantifiable exposure management —making CTEM real.
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