The theme of threat visibility is a recurring theme in cybersecurity. With an ever-expanding attack surface due to the transition to remote work, cloud and SaaS computing, and the proliferation of personal devices, it’s invulnerable to see all the threats that keep bombarding companies. This is especially true for SMBs with limited security budgets and lean IT security teams.
Upcoming webinars (register here) trying to help Lean Security teams understand how to solve this tough problem. While adding security solutions to cover blind spots seems logical, the webinar will argue that this just leads to more alerts and more noise. While this approach might work for large security teams, small teams simply don’t have the bandwidth to handle the increase in alerts.
Instead, organizations need broad threat visibility to cover current blind spots, but then the ability to combine, sort and filter alerts by importance. In this way, security teams can learn more but respond less – a reversal of the current situation.
Three Keys to Threat Visibility
The three requirements to achieve maximum visibility are:
Implement specific security techniques
While more technologies look better, the key is to choose the right set of technologies that cover the most important parts of your IT environment. These technologies include NGAV, EDR, NDR, UBA, Deception, SIEM, SOAR.
Integrate everything for a 360-degree view
Implementing the technologies listed above as separate components will only lead to visibility gaps, alert overload, and missed threats. Look for newer XDR solutions that integrate real-time signals from multiple telemetry points into one platform.
Automate reactive actions to improve responsiveness
With increased threat visibility and accuracy, IT security teams—especially lean teams—need to react quickly to stop identified threats. Automation is increasing in speed and scale beyond the capabilities of armies of security professionals—as long as it is integrated in XDR.
Deep excavation
Unfortunately, a lack of threat visibility is all too common for most companies today, especially SMBs. The problem isn’t the SME’s lean security team, but the lack of affordable, well-engineered vendor offerings to provide this necessary capability. The Cynet webinar will take a deep dive into emerging XDR technologies and show how they can ultimately help close the visibility gap in a simple, cost-effective and efficient way.
