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SafeBreach launches AI-driven CTEM platform with Helm

Thu, 23rd Apr 2026 (Today)

SafeBreach has launched an artificial intelligence-based Continuous Threat Exposure Management product centred on its Helm AI Agent.

The product is designed to bring together exposure validation and data from a customer's existing security tools across the full CTEM process, from scoping and discovery to validation and remediation. The goal is to help security teams act on findings that are often spread across separate systems and workflows.

CTEM, a framework that has gained traction among large organisations seeking a more continuous approach to cyber risk, depends on identifying exposures, assessing which matter most, and fixing them. In practice, many companies still rely on separate products for threat intelligence, vulnerability management, external attack surface management, security operations, and ticketing, leaving teams to connect results manually.

Helm is designed to span those steps through a conversational interface. SafeBreach says the system uses data from threat intelligence tools to define business priorities and critical assets, then draws on internal and external exposure data to support discovery and prioritisation.

It also connects with the company's existing breach and attack simulation and attack path validation products. These are used to test whether highlighted exposures are actually exploitable and to map how an attacker could move through an environment to reach important assets.

For remediation, the platform can translate validated findings into guidance that can be sent to security information and event management, security orchestration, automation and response, and workflow tools including ServiceNow and Jira. The intention is to help teams move from detection to action more quickly.

The launch comes as security teams face pressure from growing alert volumes, a larger attack surface, and the emergence of threats created or adapted with AI tools. Across the cyber security sector, vendors have responded by trying to combine more data sources and automate more of the decision-making process, though buyers remain wary of adding another layer of complexity.

Validation Focus

SafeBreach is positioning validation as the distinguishing feature of its approach. It argues that CTEM programmes fall short when they identify large numbers of potential weaknesses without confirming which can be exploited in realistic attack scenarios.

"With this launch, we are enabling organizations to evolve from fragmented security practices to a unified, intelligence-driven CTEM program that is grounded in validation," said Guy Bejerano, Chief Executive Officer, SafeBreach.

He added: "That is critical. You cannot have a CTEM program without validation, and SafeBreach is the leader in AEV. When combined with our enterprise expertise, the rich body of empirical data we have from millions of simulations against the most mature security organizations in the world, and the powerful AI orchestration capabilities of SafeBreach Helm, we are able to provide a complete solution that not only removes the complexity of operationalizing CTEM, but also meets the safety and scalability requirements our enterprise customers have come to expect from SafeBreach."

The company's CTEM package also includes what it calls AI Remediation, intended to provide guidance linked to existing operational systems, and Breach Studio, a feature for designing custom attack scenarios. SafeBreach also referred to an Exposure Hub, described as a centralised view that correlates information from vulnerability management, external attack surface management, and other tools, although that element has not yet been released.

Market Context

The wider market for exposure management has become increasingly crowded as established cyber security suppliers and newer entrants seek to move beyond point tools. Many are trying to offer a broader operating layer spanning asset discovery, prioritisation, and workflow orchestration, particularly for large organisations with distributed environments.

SafeBreach has built its name around adversarial exposure validation, an area focused on simulating attacker behaviour to test how controls stand up in real-world conditions. By putting that testing approach at the centre of a CTEM product, the company is trying to address a common complaint from security teams: too much risk data arrives without clear proof of exploitability or a direct path to remediation.

In the new product, Helm acts as the interface that ties those parts together. Users can start each CTEM phase with simple prompts, while the system draws on connected tools and its own validation technology to assemble findings and recommended next steps.

The result is intended to support a closed-loop programme in which exposures are identified, checked, prioritised, and then passed into operational systems for action. Whether customers see that as a meaningful simplification may depend on how well the product integrates with the security tools they already use and how much manual work it removes from day-to-day operations.

SafeBreach says the platform is built for large, distributed enterprise environments and is intended to give security teams a single way to manage exposure data and validated remediation steps.