Despite this, a worrying number of businesses continue to display blind trust in their security controls, failing to validate whether those solutions are functioning effectively.
It is essential for defenders to have clear visibility across their environments, as well as the ability to test their security solutions to ensure they are performing as intended.
As a result, Attack Surface Management and Security Validation solutions have emerged as critical, complementary tools capable of helping organizations identify potential exposures and gauge how much of a risk they pose.
It is designed to prompt organizations to evaluate their security capabilities on a continuous basis.
ASM and Security Validation tools play an important, symbiotic role here: ASM is used to generate a comprehensive view of the organization's attack surface by creating a blueprint of potential vulnerabilities and exposures and verifying; while Security Validation takes that blueprint and puts it to the test by actively seeking out those exposures to test breach feasibility and control efficacy.
ASM may indicate a gap in coverage for one security solution, revealing what looks like a dangerous attack path.
Security Validation may reveal what appeared to be an exposure is actually protected by compensating controls.
Growing recognition of the need to verify the effectiveness of security controls has driven significant innovation in the areas of ASM and Security Validation.
With businesses increasingly adopting Cloud and multi-Cloud environments, it is important for ASM and Security Validation solutions to cover major public Cloud providers.
As ASM and Security Validation vendors continue to innovate, those capabilities are readily available to today's businesses.
It's also important to note that this increased capability around Cloud platforms does not remove the need for Security Validation and ASM across on-premises infrastructure.
Given the pressures to have visibility across cloud and on-premises environments, it is not surprising that ASM and Security Validation were hot topics at this year's Black Hat conference-and new technologies like those showcased at the event will become essential for modern businesses.
Solutions like the Cymulate platform build on traditional Security Validation features to include Cloud and Kubernetes attack simulation scenarios and templates, allowing businesses to conduct breach feasibility assessment and gauge business risk from on-prem systems to the Cloud and back.
Many businesses are already budgeting for these solutions and plan to increase their spend in 2024, highlighting the increasing demand for ASM and Security Validation.
Today's businesses need to know whether the security solutions and protocols they have invested in are working as intended.
Not only do ASM and Security Validation tools help organizations improve their overall security posture from on-prem to the Cloud, but they also help frame security in terms of potential exposure, a native component of business analysis.
Implementing these tools as a part of the broader CTEM process allows security teams to clearly illustrate where exposures exist and what level of risk they pose to the organization if left unaddressed.
Thanks to advances in ASM and Security Validation, businesses don't need to take it on faith that their security operations are keeping them protected.
Instead, they can actively measure their effectiveness and take the necessary steps to remediate dangerous exposures and security gaps in real time.
He's assisted in disaster recovery and migration, Cloud transformation, and identity and security operations and testing for companies ranging from mom & pop retail shops to Fortune 100 global companies.
This Cyber News was published on www.cyberdefensemagazine.com. Publication date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 06:13:06 +0000