CTEM for Financial Services: A Practical Guide for Post-Mythos Defense

A five-stage maturity model for banks, insurers and payment processors that need to move fast and prove every risk call to auditors.

AI models like Mythos now find and weaponize vulnerabilities within days of disclosure. FS-ISAC tells members to assume every vulnerability will be exploited. CISA BOD 26-04 gives agencies three days to remediate the most dangerous flaws, and bank auditors are expected to adopt it as their yardstick.

A scanner backlog and CVSS scores won't get you there. This guide shows where your program stands today and the practical steps to reach the next stage.

What's inside:

• The Exposure Management Maturity Model: five stages from Scanning Focus to Agentic Exposure Management
• Stage-by-stage playbooks for asset discovery, scanning, prioritization, exposure hunting, and workflow
• A prioritization formula examiners will accept: internet exposure, threat intel, compensating controls, business criticality and runtime presence
• How to use the controls you already own to buy time on findings you can't patch inside the window
• SLA and exception guidance that holds up to an audit