Security consolidation is a hot topic these days, and for good reason.
Businesses are constantly bombarded with the latest “must-have” tool for strengthening their security defences. The result? IT teams often end up with a jumble of tools that solve isolated issues, leading to frustration and increased workloads. Worse still, the improvements to their overall security posture are imperceptible.
You’ve probably heard about security consolidation before, and you might even have dismissed it as just another sales pitch promising to fix all your cybersecurity problems. You might wonder if it will require a significant investment of resources and effort from your IT and security teams to reevaluate your current security setup and introduce new products or learn new platforms.
It doesn’t need to be that way. In fact, cybersecurity consolidation might be one of the most useful, practical changes you can make to your security infrastructure to protect against modern threats. This approach has gained recognition from a wide range of industry experts, with Gartner naming it a top strategic cybersecurity trends for 2023.
At Appurity, we believe there are three key areas where security consolidation can add real value to your organisation:
- Improved visibility: Consolidating security tools and processes allows for a unified view of your organisation’s security posture. This enhanced visibility enables quicker detection of threats, vulnerabilities, and anomalies across your entire environment.
- Reduced complexity: A multitude of security tools can create complexity in your security architecture, leading to interoperability issues and potential gaps in coverage. Consolidation simplifies your environment, making it easier to identify and address security gaps.
- Enhanced threat detection: Consolidated security data provides a broader context for threat detection and analysis – covering the gaps that isolated tools may leave open, where undetected issues or malicious patterns are lurking.
There’s one key recommendation we make for our customers looking to improve visibility, reduce environment complexity, and enhance their threat detection capabilities: automated security validation.
Automated security validation is key to identifying what’s currently fit for purpose in your organisation. By putting your security strategy to the test, you can determine which controls are working the hardest for your business. This 360-view of your organisation is critical for building a robust consolidation effort.
Pentera’s platform takes security validation a step further, because it mimics the behaviour of an attacker and emulates real-world attacks. This approach ensures you’ll find exactly where your business’s most critical vulnerabilities are so that you can work to fix them. You’ll also likely find areas where you can retire security tools or technologies that provide little or no actionable support.
This approach keeps you one step ahead of a hacker, always anticipating the next move. You’ll understand your organisation’s attack surface with more clarity and precision than ever before.
One Day to Secure it All: Challenge Pentera and Appurity To Uncover Your Critical Vulnerabilities
Cyber threats evolve rapidly, and your business can’t afford to wait. Traditional penetration testing services, while valuable, can be time-consuming, resource-intensive, and limited in scope. We believe in delivering empirical data that identifies your most critical risks from day one, enabling rapid remediation.
What’s in the Pentera One-Day Challenge?
The Pentera One Day Challenge typically includes the following tests:
- Black / Grey Box Tests: Uncover vulnerabilities with precision and depth.
- AD Password Strength Assessment (optional): How long does it take us to crack your AD passwords?
- RansomwareReadyTM (optional): Ensure your readiness against ransomware attacks.