Fortify your enterprise: The top CEM security platforms of 2025

Picture this: Your enterprise is hit with a major cybersecurity incident, and every second counts. Who gets notified? What actions are taken? How quickly can you contain the damage? That’s where continuous exposure management (CEM)  security platforms come in. 

According to ESG’s Attack Surface Management report, seven out of ten organizations have been compromised through unmanaged or poorly managed internet-facing assets within the past year. As a result of the increased risks, external attack surface management has become one of the top investment priorities for large enterprises.

CEM security platforms support this by providing continuous visibility into an organization’s digital footprint, identifying exposures in real time, and prioritizing risks accordingly. 

The best CEM solutions of 2025 don’t just send alerts—they coordinate a swift, intelligent response to keep your business running smoothly. 

In this blog, we’ll break down the top CEM security platforms that enterprises are relying on to stay ahead of ever-evolving threats.

What is a CEM security platform?

Continuous Exposure Management (CEM) allows your team to monitor security risks associated with your IT systems at all times. CEM security platforms assist with this by continuously identifying vulnerabilities, assessing their potential impact, and prioritizing remediation efforts.

Types of CEM security platforms

Since CEM is a relatively new market (G2 first introduced the term for exposure management in 2023), there are a few different kinds of CEM solutions available. The types of CEM security platforms include:

1. Attack surface management (ASM) platforms: ASM tools continuously identify, monitor, and mitigate risks across digital and physical assets. The key features include asset discovery, risk-based prioritization, and automated response.

2. Vulnerability scanning tools: Vulnerability scanning tools search for and report on known vulnerabilities in an organization’s IT infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure, networks, and applications. 

3. SIEM software: SIEM software collects user activity, network data, and logs, from a wide range of devices and applications, and then processes it to detect security incidents.

4. XDR software: XDR tools offer visibility across multiple security layers, including networks, endpoints, servers, and cloud workloads. Unlike EDR and SIEM, XDR software offers a more unified approach.

5. Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) software: BAS tools help organizations gain a deeper understanding of their security posture vulnerabilities by automating testing of threat vectors such as external and insider attacks, lateral movement, and data theft.

Why invest in a CEM security platform

Why should enterprises invest in CEM security platforms? 

Arguably the five main benefits of CEM security platforms are: 

1. Proactive threat detection: CEM should begin long before an incident occurs and continue long after it has been resolved. To accomplish this, CEM security tools offer capabilities like continuous monitoring, real-time assessments, and automated processes for identifying and responding to vulnerabilities. 
2. Comprehensive risk assessment: CEM security platforms look at every aspect of your IT environment, including the most unnoticed areas, providing a complete picture of your security status.
3. Quick incident response: CEM platforms have predefined incident response workflows and playbooks, which enable organizations to respond quickly and effectively to security incidents.
4. Increased connectivity: With the continuing evolution of the work economy, such as working from home, bringing your own device, and the Internet of Things (IoT), organizations are more connected and interconnected than ever before. CEM provides a defense for the increased complexity and expanded attack surface.

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5. Increased cost savings: As any security analyst knows, preventing cyberattacks is more economical than paying for their aftermath. CEM techniques, such as ASM, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence, provide the right insights, which helps to address vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.

Best CEM security platforms in 2025

Below, we have reviewed the best CEM security platforms and ranked them based on their quality, pricing, and customer reviews – according to our own research.

1. Cymulate

Cymulate is a cybersecurity software that supports every stage of CEM, from continuously identifying vulnerabilities to prioritizing them according to severity and providing remediation guidance to address them. With Cymulate, you can discover attack surfaces, identify misconfigurations, and scan for vulnerabilities.

Cymulate users also have access to frameworks, heatmaps, and an AI-powered assistant. The AI assistant converts threat intel, threat advisories, news articles, and plain language commands into custom assessments.

G2 Rating: 4.9 out of 5.0 stars (100+ reviews)

Capterra Rating: n/a

Cymulate Pricing:

• To get the pricing, you need to fill in a form on Cymulate’s website and go through a demo call.

2. Skybox

Skybox helps organizations minimize exposure to risk through three main capabilities: attack surface management (ASM), vulnerability and threat management (VTM), and network security policy management (NSPM). With the ASM feature, you gain a complete inventory of your network, server, and cloud assets, giving you a better picture of your threat surface.

Based on factors like asset importance, exploitability, asset accessibility, and severity, Skybox’s VTM solution measures risks and offers actionable insights to address vulnerabilities. Finally, the NSPM feature helps you gain better control over firewall security policies, analyze rules, optimize configurations, and manage policy changes effectively.

G2 Rating: 4.3 out of 5.0 stars (5 reviews)

Capterra Rating: n/a

Skybox Pricing:

• Pricing is based on a custom quotation. To learn more, request a demo from Skybox’s website. 

3. Wiz

Wiz is a cloud security platform offering a range of security products for enterprises. It assists with exposure management by scanning your environment from the outside to verify its exposure, identify which resources are at risk, and uncover how they became exposed. It examines network configurations, communication patterns, and interdependencies to ensure that every potential point of exposure is investigated.

After identifying threats, Wiz provides actionable recommendations that help you close gaps in your security and make it stronger.

G2 Rating: 4.7 out of 5.0 stars (600+ reviews)

Capterra Rating: n/a

Wiz Pricing:

• To get the pricing, you need to fill out a form on Wiz’s website, and their team will prepare custom pricing for you.

4. CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management

CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management enables vulnerability management programs across the entire asset lifecycle, from asset discovery and vulnerability assessment to effective remediation. With Falcon Exposure Management, you can identify attack sources and take decisive action with guided endpoint remediation steps.

Falcon Exposure Management is used alongside other security products from CrowdStrike, such as Falcon Endpoint Protection. Similarly to other CrowdStrike products, Falcon Exposure Management uses AI for more accurate and automated threat detection.

G2 Rating: 4.3 out of 5.0 stars (6 reviews)

Capterra Rating: 4.7 out of 5.0 stars (40 reviews)

CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management Pricing:

• To obtain pricing, request a demo from CrowdStrike’s website.

5. ESET PROTECT

ESET PROTECT is software for protecting your business environment assets, such as endpoints, servers, mobiles, cloud applications, and integrations. It helps with exposure management by monitoring and identifying vulnerabilities on your network, offering predefined workflows for responding to incidents, and accessing threat intelligence feeds to help prioritize emerging threats.

For capabilities, such as RMM, IT ticketing, patch management, and remote access, ESET can be integrated with Atera, alongside other IT management tools.

G2 Rating: 4.6 out of 5.0 stars (800+ reviews)

Capterra Rating: 4.9 out of 5.0 stars (8 reviews)

ESET PROTECT Pricing:

• Starts at $287.72 for 5 devices, per year. Contact ESET’s sales team for the exact pricing details. 

6. Cynet

Cynet 360 combines endpoint, network, and user attack prevention and detection with automated investigation and remediation capabilities. Unlike using separate tools, such as EDR and SIEM, Cynet aims to combine these functions into a unified platform. Plus, it offers managed MDR software, where experts monitor your environment on your behalf.

As part of the MDR layer, Cynet prioritizes and notifies customers of critical events, conducts attack investigations, performs proactive threat hunting, and provides incident response guidance. Cynet can be integrated with Atera for capabilities such as RMM, patch management, and remote access.

G2 Rating: 4.7 out of 5.0 stars (200+ reviews)

Capterra Rating: 4.8 out of 5.0 stars (4 reviews)

Cynet Pricing:

• Cynet Elite: Starts at $7 per month, per endpoint
• Cynet All-in-one: Starts at $9 per month, per endpoint

7. IBM Randori

IBM Randori is attack surface management software that identifies hostnames, networks, IP addresses, and social entities associated with your organization from public and private sources. After an asset is discovered, it finds what is running and responding, finds additional assets, and gathers metadata to determine the services that are running.

Based on the targets identified, IBM Randori provides guidance that outlines steps your organization can take to improve resilience. From the dashboard, you can get an overview of your active assets, which displays your networks, hostnames, and IPs.

G2 Rating: 4.3 out of 5.0 stars (20+ reviews)

Capterra Rating: n/a

IBM Randori Pricing:

• To get the pricing, request a demo from IBM’s website

8. XM Cyber

XM Cyber helps simplify the process of identifying, classifying, and addressing exposures. The platform displays a list of the most current exposures affecting your environment and analyzes misconfigurations and human error to determine what open pathways lead to your critical assets.

In addition, XM Cyber helps your teams understand how exposure affects devices and the patches that can fix it so you can remediate the issue as quickly as possible.

G2 Rating: 3.5 out of 5.0 stars (only 1 review so far)

Capterra Rating: n/a

XM Cyber Pricing:

• Request a demo from XM Cyber’s website to get the pricing. 

For holistic and secure all-in-one IT management: Atera 

At Atera, we understand the importance of an IT management platform that combines continuous exposure management with broader security and management features. That’s why Atera integrates with the leading tools for CEM, such as Cynet and ESET.

Atera’s CEM integrations are accompanied by a range of built-in IT management features, such as:

• RMM – for continuously monitoring endpoints, such as workstations and servers, for their performance and health. When there are issues, technicians will be automatically notified through alerts.
• Patch management – for keeping devices and third-party applications up-to-date with the latest security patches. Ponemon Institute study found that 60% of breaches involved a known vulnerability not being patched, so this one is very important.
• Network Discovery – for detecting all end-user networks and devices for a comprehensive hardware and security overview of all connected devices.
• Agentic AI™ – with a deep foundation in Agentic AI, Atera offers a digital workforce of AI agents that proactively and autonomously support your entire IT operation. 
• Remote access – to access devices remotely for troubleshooting.

And much more. For a full list of the features and what they can be used for, we encourage you to read our Atera review!

If you’re ready to try Atera and its CEM integrations yourself, you can do so easily with the available 30-day free trial. 

Or, you can get in touch with our sales team to discuss your needs in more detail!