Free guide gives security leaders a practical path from periodic testing to continuous, validated defense

AttackIQ, the leading Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) platform and founding research partner of the MITRE Center for Threat-Informed Defense (CTID), today announced the publication of CTEM + MITRE INFORM For Dummies, AttackIQ Special Edition. Written by Jon Baker, Vice President of Threat-Informed Defense, and Pete Luban, Field CISO, the book provides security teams with a working blueprint for pairing Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) and MITRE INFORM to build a threat-informed exposure management program that’s designed to scale.

Most organizations run vulnerability scans monthly and commission penetration tests once or twice a year. That testing produces snapshots. Attackers do not operate on audit schedules, and the gap between knowing controls exist and knowing they work is where breaches happen. The guide addresses that problem directly, walking through CTEM's five-stage cycle of Scoping, Discovery, Prioritization, Validation, and Mobilization alongside MITRE INFORM's threat-informed defense maturity model.

“During my 22-year career at MITRE, I watched organizations spend years investing in security controls without a reliable way to know whether those controls hold up in practice,” Baker said. “CTEM and MITRE INFORM solve that by making validation a continuous process anchored in how adversaries actually operate, not how we assume they do. This guide is for security leaders who are done assuming and ready to prove it.”

A chapter-length case study applies both frameworks to a multinational healthcare organization, tracing the path from compliance-driven reporting to board-level assurance metrics. The book also carries a foreword by Brigadier General Paul Craft (United States Army, Retired), former U.S. Army Chief of Cyber and Electronic Warfare.

“Boards stopped accepting yes-or-no answers on security a long time ago,” Luban said. “They want to see the data. This guide gives practitioners the tools to build a program that produces that data continuously, not just at audit time, and to communicate it in terms that resonate outside the security function.”

CTEM + MITRE INFORM For Dummies, AttackIQ Special Edition is available as a free download at https://www.attackiq.com/resources/ebook/ctem-mitre-inform-for-dummies/.

About AttackIQ

AttackIQ is the industry’s leading Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) platform, enabling organizations to measure true exposure, prioritize risk, and disrupt real-world attack paths. By moving beyond static vulnerability data, AttackIQ operationalizes CTEM by continuously validating exposures against real adversary behavior and defensive controls. The platform connects vulnerabilities, configurations, identities, and detections into adversary-validated attack paths—quantifying the likelihood of attacker movement and impact. This evidence-based approach empowers security leaders to focus on what matters most, optimize defensive investments, and strengthen resilience through threat-informed, AI-driven security operations.

The company is committed to supporting its MSSP partners with a Flexible Preactive Partner Program that provides turn-key solutions, empowering them to elevate client security. AttackIQ is passionate about giving back to the cybersecurity community through its free, award-winning AttackIQ Academy and founding research partnership with MITRE Center for Threat-Informed Defense.

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