Why are cybersecurity experts stress on visibility? Why is it important to have real time cybersecurity visibility?
We will find answers to such questions in this edition of the Journal.
Why is visibility important?
In the world of cybersecurity, reactions can be costly. It can cost an organization its information, disrupt its operations, and negatively impact its reputation. What is worse is that most businesses, despite having the best of the best security solutions, suffer to gain complete visibility of their cybersecurity operations from alert noise and fail to gain visibility of the cybersecurity operations.
Cybercriminals look for security weaknesses that they can exploit to break into an organization’s defenses. Modern-day cybercriminals use AI to automatically discover security weaknesses and run simulations to test the strength of organizations’ security stacks.
Some go to breach forums on the dark net where they can buy tactics/methods to exploit an organization’s security weaknesses. These forums often comprise hackers who post methods/strategies/tools and other information based on attacks they have orchestrated on organizations.
With detailed information on security weaknesses, a cybercriminal can carry out an attack in a matter of seconds!
What happens when you don’t have real time visibility?
Here are some of the consequences of not having real time cybersecurity visibility:
1. Increased alert noise
Organizations, especially large-sized organizations, have many security solutions in place for varied security purposes. These include legacy systems that produce a lot of alerts out of which only some are critical security alerts that are to be addressed by security teams. Without clear visibility, security teams can get overwhelmed and fatigued with a flood of security alerts.
2. Contextless security
Visibility helps form a clear picture of threats. It helps security to engage in accurate security investigations behind each cybersecurity threat. Without cybersecurity visibility, security teams can struggle to find the context needed to engage in security operations like performing root cause analysis of threats.
3. Delayed detection and response to threats and incident response
Without complete visibility of suspicious activity, behaviors, etc. organizations can face the challenge of delayed detection of threats. It can make timely responses to threats a challenge. A delay in detection time can become a window of opportunity for attackers to orchestrate a full-blown cyber-attack.
4. Wastage of cybersecurity budget
Cybersecurity budgets play a critical role in improving cybersecurity resilience. Without real-time cybersecurity visibility, a cybersecurity budget can be allocated to the wrong areas, leading to financial wastage.
5. Increased risk of non-compliance
Many data security regulations like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPRrequire organizations to have mechanisms in place for monitoring the environment for suspicious activities and unauthorized access to data. Without such mechanisms in place, an organization can face the consequence of non-compliance such as hefty fines and a reduction in stakeholders’ trust.
How SharkStriker helps you improve visibility?
SharkStriker helps organizations solve the challenge of lack of real-time visibility by offering them an open-architecture-based, unified, multi-tenant, compliance-centric security platform STRIEGO. It provides the real-time visibility needed to promptly detect, identify, and respond to threats.
It automates compliance through automated CIS-based baseline posture assessments and vulnerability management. It comes with an in-built SOAR that automatically responds to threats.
It is backed by our SOC team that performs round-the-clock security monitoring, providing the much-needed human expertise needed to manage the cybersecurity stack with best practices and proactively stay ahead of threats and discover them before they make their move.
