Improving security visibility with Bitsight
As your digital footprint expands, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain complete security visibility. From cloud storage instances to on-premise hardware to remote/home offices, your attack surface is growing larger and more complex by the day. Even with a well-designed security tech stack, you might not have a clear view of everything you need to see. To get a clear picture of your ecosystem and where cyber risk is concentrated, you need solutions that can deliver greater visibility to identify the gaps in your security programs and controls.
Bitsight for Security Performance Management provides superior security visibility so you can understand the true size of your attack surface and maximize the effectiveness of your efforts to protect it. Through continuous monitoring, broad measurement, and detailed cybersecurity planning and forecasting, Bitsight lets you make data-driven decisions on how to better manage your resources and protect your organization.
The challenge of security visibility in today’s IT environment
Your IT environment and expanding digital footprint present a number of critical challenges to security visibility.
- Your digital footprint today is probably much larger than you think, thanks to old URLs, forgotten domains, rogue IP addresses, and assets acquired through acquisition. If you’re unsure what assets you have, visibility into their security is impossible.
- SIEM monitoring tools are logging everything that happens your network. However, your SIEM solution can’t deliver the context required to understand the raw data it’s producing or show you how events are impacting your security performance.
- On-premise assets sit safely behind a firewall. But if they’re not patched, updated, and properly configured, it’s hard to know if they’re open to known vulnerabilities.
- Endpoints – and the people who use them – are the weakest links in your security chain. Endpoints are easy targets for malware and botnet infections, and file sharing among users represents significant risk exposure. To protect your organization, you need visibility into what endpoints are sending to and receiving from the Internet.
- Firewalls are a primary line of defense. But because so much business happens outside the network today, you need greater visibility about everything that’s entering and leaving the network.
- Subsidiaries and geos may have digital assets that aren’t in your official inventory. And without adequate visibility, it’s hard to know what data is out there and whether it safe.
- Shadow IT is always a concern. It’s easy today for users to spin up new cloud instances or deploy web services, and many of these may not be on your radar.
- Cloud services offer tremendous value but they expand your attack surface as well. Without expansive security visibility, it’s hard to know whether each cloud instance is properly configured, managed, and monitored.
- Remote offices present a growing challenge, as residential IP’s account for over 90% of all observed malware infections and compromised systems. To protect your far-flung workforce, you need greater visibility into your extended network.
