Terra Security has announced new capabilities designed to assist security and engineering leaders in operationalizing Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) by providing a method to quickly determine if a newly disclosed vulnerability is exploitable within their specific environment.
Recent vulnerabilities found in major application frameworks, including ORM layers, routing systems, and serialization pipelines, have highlighted a systemic challenge in modern Cybersecurity programs. While organizations can detect vulnerabilities at scale, they often struggle to validate their exploitability at the same scale.
As web applications become more dynamic and interconnected, traditional vulnerability and web app scanners, SAST/SCA/DAST tools, and periodic penetration tests often fail to determine if a vulnerability is genuinely reachable in an organization’s live environment. This gap impacts the core stages of CTEM, contributing to inflated backlogs, misprioritized remediation efforts, and increased operational uncertainty. Shahar Peled, Co-Founder and CEO of Terra, stated, “Exploitability validation is the missing middle of CTEM Programs for the majority of organizations. Security teams don’t need more alerts. They need clarity and the ability to take action. Modern vulnerabilities are deeply contextual, and organizations must be able to determine whether an issue is truly exploitable based on their own code, business logic, and user flows.”
Terra’s analysis of recent vulnerability patterns indicates several key observations: Many high-severity vulnerabilities are only exploitable under specific input or logic conditions; two organizations running identical framework versions may have vastly different exposure levels based on how their applications handle data; traditional pentesting cycles cannot keep pace with the rate of code and attack surface changes; and severity scores alone often do not represent real business impact without an understanding of reachability and business context.
These trends are accelerating as engineering teams adopt AI-based tools and leverage more complex frameworks, further amplifying the need for continuous, context-aware validation over point-in-time assessments.
To address this, Terra has introduced a continuous exploitability validation approach, utilizing advanced agentic AI with human-led oversight. This system continuously analyzes code changes, business logic, role-based access, and application behavior. It then generates and tests targeted “Signals” to determine if a vulnerability is realistically exploitable within the given environment.
Iain Paterson, CISO at Well Health, commented, “The future of application risk management isn’t more visibility, it’s more truth. Appsec programs succeed when organizations can distinguish noise from impact. Continuous exploit validation provides the missing layer of certainty that security and engineering teams need.”
Terra’s continuous validation model enables organizations to reduce noise and eliminate theoretical CVEs, prioritize vulnerabilities based on real exploitability, accelerate remediation with credible and reproduction-ready evidence, strengthen CTEM cycles across discovery, assessment, validation, and mobilization, and replace annual pentest bottlenecks with continuous clarity.
Terra Security is an Agentic-AI-powered platform specializing in continuous web application penetration testing. Designed for security teams operating in complex, fast-moving environments, Terra combines the scalability and efficiency of fine-tuned AI agents with the precision and control of human oversight for safety and compliance. By aligning every test with an organization’s unique business logic and risk profile, Terra aims to deliver tailored, exploit-driven findings that highlight critical issues. The company was founded by seasoned security leaders and is backed by investors including Felicis, Dell Technologies Capital, SYN Ventures, Lama Partners, Underscore VC, and SVCI.
