What Is External Threat Landscape Management (ETLM)?

External Threat Landscape Management (ETLM) is CYFIRMA’s continuous, outside-in approach to understanding and managing cyber risk developing beyond an organization’s direct visibility. It connects external exposure, adversary activity, digital risk and third-party risk with organization-specific context.

DeCYFIR is the platform that operationalizes this approach, helping teams understand which external developments could affect them, how the risks connect and what deserves attention first.

Key takeaways

• ETLM brings cyber threat intelligence, external attack-surface management, digital risk protection and third-party risk intelligence into one connected approach. It reveals relationships that separate tools can leave security teams to piece together.
• ETLM assesses external threats against an organization’s own environment. Industry, geography, technology, assets, identities and suppliers help determine whether a threat is relevant.
• ETLM continuously tracks changes in both exposure and adversary activity. A new asset, leaked identity, supplier weakness or developing campaign can change what deserves attention.
• An ETLM platform can consolidate overlapping external-risk capabilities and reduce dependency on multiple point solutions. It also adds outside-in context to broader security tools, controls and workflows already in place.