What is Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM)?
Security teams rely on a growing number of cybersecurity tools, yet many still struggle to answer a simple question: Are we truly protected? Disconnected systems, inconsistent data, and unknown assets create blind spots across the attack surface, making it difficult to understand what’s protected and where gaps exist.
Teneo’s Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM), powered by ThreatAware, connects to your existing tools to deliver a single, accurate view of your devices and their security coverage. The platform continuously identifies assets, validates that security controls are working as intended, and brings disconnected data together into one trusted view.
Without clear visibility, risks go unnoticed and security investments fall short. With a unified view, teams can identify gaps, prioritize risk, and take action with confidence, helping reduce exposure and maximize the value of existing security investments.
Key challenges IT teams face when validating security controls
With accurate, trusted data, teams can reduce manual effort, close gaps faster, and make better use of existing security tools.
How Teneo’s CAASM Helps Security Teams Know What’s Protected to Reduce Risk
Reducing risk across your attack surface is not about adding more tools; it’s about gaining clarity, validating what’s working, and ensuring your existing controls are protecting the assets they should – consistently and at scale.
With Teneo’s CAASM solution, powered by ThreatAware, security teams can:
The CAASM Platform Capabilities That Deliver Complete Visibility and Control
Eliminate blind spots and take full control with our CAASM solution, powered by ThreatAware.
Visibility, Validation, and Remediation Across Your Environment with Teneo’s CAASM
Gain a single source of truth for every device across your environment, with complete visibility of managed, unmanaged, and previously unknown assets.
Track issues from identification to resolution, streamline remediation workflows, and assign actions across your existing security and IT tools.
Gain a real-time view of security posture, deployment status, control health, and policy coverage through centralized vitals dashboards across your environment.
Continuously monitor, prioritize, and remediate security issues through automated workflows, real-time tracking, and ongoing validation across your environment.
Build customized dashboards and reports with real-time security and asset insights to support visibility, compliance, and informed decision-making.
Powered by ThreatAware, Integrated into Your IT Ecosystem
Teneo’s Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) solution is powered by ThreatAware and integrates with your existing security and IT ecosystem.
By connecting to tools such as Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, ServiceNow, and AWS, the platform brings data together into a single, accurate view, helping teams identify gaps, validate controls, and reduce risk faster.
See ThreatAware’s Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management Gartner Peer Insights.
CAASM Case Study and Webinar
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“We could never tell exactly how many machines we had deployed in our estate, and whether they were all running our security agents correctly.”
Information Security Specialist, Bird & Bird
Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) FAQs
Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) is a cybersecurity approach that provides a complete, centralized view of all assets across your IT environment. It connects data from existing security and IT tools to create a single source of truth, helping teams identify unknown assets, validate controls, and reduce security gaps.
Attack surface management focuses on identifying external assets and exposure points, while Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) provides a broader, internal view of all assets across your environment. CAASM helps unify data from multiple tools to create a single source of truth and validate security controls.
CAASM works by integrating with your existing tools through APIs and aggregating asset data into one platform. It normalizes and correlates this data to create a trusted view of your environment, enabling continuous asset discovery, control validation, and gap identification.
CAASM solves the problem of fragmented visibility. Most organizations use multiple disconnected tools, which leads to inconsistent data and unknown assets. CAASM unifies this data into a single view so teams can understand what exists, what is protected, and where risks remain.
CAASM improves visibility by consolidating and reconciling data from multiple sources into one centralized platform. This creates a complete and accurate view of all assets, helping eliminate blind spots and ensuring nothing is missed across your attack surface.
A single source of truth ensures asset data is accurate, consistent, and up to date. Without it, teams rely on conflicting information from different tools. CAASM creates a unified view so security teams can trust their data and make faster, more confident decisions.
CAASM identifies unknown assets by comparing data across multiple tools and highlighting discrepancies. If an asset appears in one system but not another, it is flagged for investigation. This helps uncover hidden devices and close gaps in visibility.
Yes. CAASM validates security controls by checking whether they are deployed and active across all assets. It highlights where controls are missing, misconfigured, or not functioning correctly, helping ensure your security tools are working as intended.
CAASM identifies gaps by mapping assets against expected security controls and highlighting missing or inconsistent coverage. This allows teams to quickly find unprotected devices and take action to reduce exposure.
CAASM integrates with existing tools using APIs, connecting to platforms such as endpoint security, vulnerability management, identity, cloud, and IT service management. This allows organizations to unify data without replacing tools and maximize existing investments.
CAASM focuses on asset visibility and inventory, while vulnerability management focuses on identifying and fixing vulnerabilities. CAASM ensures you know what assets exist and whether they are protected, providing the foundation for effective vulnerability management.
CAASM is part of a broader exposure management strategy. While attack surface management often focuses on external assets, CAASM provides internal visibility across all systems. Together, they help organizations understand and reduce overall cyber risk.
Teneo’s CAASM, powered by ThreatAware, integrates with your security tools through simple API connections in less than 30 minutes, transforming disconnected data into unified, actionable intelligence.
Getting started begins with a discovery of your environment and existing tools. Teneo then integrates your systems, creates a centralized view of your assets, and helps you identify gaps, validate controls, and improve your security posture.
CAASM focuses on internal asset visibility across your entire IT environment, including devices, users, and systems. EASM focuses on external-facing assets such as domains, IP addresses, and internet-exposed services. Together, they provide a complete view of your attack surface.
ASM and CAASM are not competing solutions. ASM helps identify external exposure, while CAASM provides internal visibility and control validation. Organizations benefit most from using both together to gain a complete view of their attack surface and security posture.
CAASM provides visibility across all assets in your environment, including endpoints, users, and on-premise systems. CSPM focuses specifically on identifying risks and misconfigurations in cloud environments. CAASM complements CSPM by connecting cloud data with the rest of your asset landscape.