# Accelerate your CTEM program with _real-time control validation_

Exposure management is an often time-intensive, manual exercise. Prelude automates your program by continuously validating controls, surfacing risks, and showing you where to focus your remediation.

## Manage your risk while minimizing your effort:

Within minutes of connecting your tools, Prelude automatically highlights your hidden exposure and risk that matters most so you can start actioning on data right away:

- **Hidden coverage gaps** like unmanaged devices and missing controls
- **Misconfigurations** that impact your ability to observe and detect attackers
- **Critical exposure** against relevant threat intelligence and MITRE techniques

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## Built with your tools in mind

Many teams rely on leading security platforms like CrowdStrike, Microsoft, Tenable, and others. Prelude connects seamlessly with the tools you're already using—no agents, no new installs.

## Resources for teams like yours

Not ready to “see it in action” just yet? These quick reads will help you understand how Prelude works, why it matters, and how other security teams are already maximizing their time and technology.

**[Step-by-step: How to connect and validate your security tools with Prelude](https://www.preludesecurity.com/info/control-monitoring)**

##### Why traditional control validation fails the modern security team, and what to do instead

**[Why you're seeing red](https://www.preludesecurity.com/info/seeing-red)**

##### How to evaluate your security environment against MITRE ATT&CK without the headaches

**[How we do it](https://www.preludesecurity.com/blog/understanding-mitre-attack-mapping)**

## From town halls to the Fortune 500, innovative brands trust Prelude to secure their business

_Within 10 minutes of deploying Prelude, we were diagnosing configuration drift across our security tools and identifying where we needed to focus both our technical and strategic efforts._  
**IT Security Leader**  
*Multinational financial firm*

_With Prelude, I know with confidence whether our endpoint defenses will protect us against a threat. It provides sound peace of mind, and saves us significant time._  
**Jonathan Jaffe**  
*Lemonade*

_It's incredibly hard to get all of this information in one place, but Prelude helps immensely._  
**IT Manager**  
*Local government*

## Questions about your trial?

Here's what you need to know, but don't hesitate to reach out as you get started.

##### Does Prelude require an agent?  
##### What integrations does Prelude offer?  
##### Is Prelude SOC 2 certified?  
##### Does Prelude do anything with my data?