The cybersecurity landscape is marked by a constantly shifting threat environment; expansive networks being hit by relentless cyberattacks, amongst the most critical. These factors often stretch security teams to their limits.
A large portion of security professionals' collective time is consumed by manual tasks associated with critical areas like attack surface management, security policy management and vulnerability assessment. These time-consuming activities divert attention from implementing essential security improvements and leave organizations more exposed to potential breaches. The problem is compounded by the sheer volume of security requests, such as those for firewall and network policy changes, which further strain resources and make workloads unsustainable.
As a result of this complexity and resource crunch, security teams often find themselves in a reactive mode and struggle to keep pace with emerging threats. This hinders their ability to proactively identify and mitigate risks, which leaves organizations vulnerable to attacks.
That is why Skybox Security, a provider of key Exposure Management solutions, today announced the latest release of Skybox and introduced numerous enhancements to its platform.
The new release introduces streamlined exposure management through policy-driven automation. This will let organizations automate attack surface, security policy and vulnerability management tasks. Enhanced attack surface management is achieved by automating asset oversight and assigning responsibilities, which reduces the attack surface.
Security teams can rapidly build and deploy automation policies to improve security policy hygiene, optimize firewall rules and initiate change management workflows for improved cost savings and increased efficiency.
Additionally, automated risk prioritization based on business impact streamlines risk management by allowing security teams to effortlessly prioritize vulnerabilities and assign dynamic importance scores.
This latest version also aptly prepares security teams as they look to break away from the perilous task of keeping pace with emerging threats. Through an extensive expansion of automation capabilities, Skybox now enables organizations to maintain compliance with established industry best practices, further reduce the risk that manual processes introduce and redeploy valuable technical resources to more skilled tasks.
“Security automation has been our focus for a long time, and our customers have already realized dramatic productivity and efficiency gains using Skybox automation,” said Mordecai Rosen, CEO at Skybox Security. “These new automation enhancements will translate to drastically reduced risk across the hybrid attack surface, optimized security policy for firewall and network operations and the freedom to focus on strategic security initiatives.”
Edited by
Alex Passett
