ATTACK PATH MANAGEMENT

CTEM finds CVEs.
That’s not your problem.

Your attack paths are.

Your CTEM tells you which vulnerabilities are exploitable. Mesh shows you the exact chain, from identity misconfiguration to cloud gap to SaaS blind spot, that leads an attacker straight to your Crown Jewels. When that path becomes active exploitation, Mesh detects it.
Connect your stack in 3 minutes. No agents.
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CVE & Vuln Prioritization

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Misconfigs & Posture Gaps

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Threat-Intel Exposures

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Prism Risk Scoring

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Attack Path Analysis

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Exposure Reduction & SLA

Why Mesh

Platform Comparison

CTEM
Mesh Security – CSMA
Core approach
CVE-driven vulnerability prioritization
Cross-domain attack path elimination
Risk model
Individual asset exploitability scores
Viable paths to crown jewels – live graph
Identity visibility
Limited

Compensating control mapping only

Full

Human, NHI, and AI identities – full fabric

Cross-domain attack paths
None
 Real-time graph
Shadow AI & MCP visibility
None
AI inventory + MCP agent detection
Detection engineering
Posture only

No runtime detection

Adaptive + autonomous investigations
Crown jewels discovery
Generic tags
Auto-discovered by business context
Stack integration
API-based, limited shared context
150+ integrations, unified context graph
REAL-WORLD SCENARIO

Scenarios CTEM can’t solve

The over-privileged service account

An intern account with transitive admin rights to a production database. No single tool flags it. CTEM sees a CVE list. Mesh sees the path.

Three findings, one attack chain

Misconfigured S3 bucket + over-privileged role + missing EDR coverage. CTEM produces three tickets. Mesh shows you the single viable path to your IP.

The AI tool no one approved

An unsanctioned AI integration moving sensitive data outside your boundary. No CVE exists. No alert fires. CTEM can't see it. Mesh maps it and flags the exposure path.

Active lateral movement

CTEM tells you what could be exploited. Mesh tells you what's being exploited now – with full attack timeline reconstruction across cloud, identity, and SaaS.

The exposure that became an incident

CTEM has no runtime layer. When a known misconfiguration gets exploited, CTEM still shows a ticket. Mesh fires a detection with the full attack context already attached.

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Detection engineering

Posture without detection is half the picture

Traditional CTEM stops at exposure identification. Mesh prioritizes on full context: attack-path analysis and blast radius. The same context graph that maps attack paths also powers runtime detection.
When something moves, you know immediately.

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Adaptive detection engineering

Detections aren't static rules. They update continuously based on your current attack paths, open exposures, and crown jewel access – so coverage reflects your actual environment, not a snapshot from six months ago.

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Autonomous investigations

When an alert fires, AI agents traverse the security graph to reconstruct the full attack story automatically – initial access, lateral movement, privilege escalation – in minutes, not hours of manual triage.

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Full attack timeline

Every detection includes the complete relationship chain: what path was taken, which identities were involved, which crown jewels were at risk. Context your SIEM can't assemble on its own.

Most CTEM platforms inventory assets and flag CVEs. Mesh goes further: identity-centric visibility across human, non-human, and AI identities, combined with real-time log analysis that reveals actual activity paths and attack chains — something traditional CTEM platforms simply cannot do.
Mesh Security Architect's Guide

7 day POC · no commitment · no agents

See your actual attack paths. Connect in 3 minutes. See them immediately.

Agentless. Mesh connects to your existing stack and surfaces cross-domain attack paths to Crown Jewels – including the ones no other tool sees.

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