WHAT ARE THE ONGOING INNOVATIONS TAKING PLACE IN CYBER SECURITY SOLUTIONS AROUND REDUCING COMPLEXITY AND INTRODUCING AUTOMATION AND INTELLIGENCE . HOW IS THIS BENEFITTING REGIONAL CISOS AND SECURITY ADMINISTRATORS ?
EDITOR ’ S QUESTION
WHAT ARE THE ONGOING INNOVATIONS TAKING PLACE IN CYBER SECURITY SOLUTIONS AROUND REDUCING COMPLEXITY AND INTRODUCING AUTOMATION AND INTELLIGENCE . HOW IS THIS BENEFITTING REGIONAL CISOS AND SECURITY ADMINISTRATORS ?
This is about knowing what is important for the business to function , identifying where exploited vulnerabilities exist that expose the business to risk and then addressing these gaps and attack pathways . By taking swift action CISOs and security teams can remove cyber exposures to reduce business risk everywhere . Executives from Tenable , SentinelOne , BeyondTrust , Barracuda , Positive Technologies , and Infoblox , share their perspectives .
MAHER JADALLAH , SENIOR DIRECTOR , MIDDLE EAST AND
NORTH AFRICA , TENABLE
Vulnerability management presents a seemingly insurmountable obstacle for organisations : How to deal with a massive and rapidly growing number of published Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures , CVEs . At the current rate of CVEs disclosed at the halfway point in 2024 , it is estimated that over 30,000 CVEs will be published this year alone .
Further complicating matters , there is a trend emerging of more CVEs in underlying components , frameworks , and language libraries – similar to the Log4Shell software vulnerability in Apache Log4j 2 disclosed in 2021 . This means organisations are not fixing a single application but rather tracking down and fixing every application that leverages the impacted vulnerable component .
3 % are true exposures that put a business at risk . And within that 3 %, only a fraction of exposures really matter .
For CISOs and security teams , it is about focusing on those few vulnerabilities that pose an actual risk to the business .
Prioritising vulnerabilities with context has always been a challenge . This is where Generative AI can make a difference . Harnessing AI efficiently requires data and expertise to generate meaningful insights . Unique data will provide unique intelligence guiding decisions .
Finding and fixing every vulnerability is not only impossible , but also unnecessary . Research from Tenable has calculated that , across the thousands of vulnerabilities that are disclosed every year , only
If harnessed correctly , it has the ability to cut through complexity to provide the concise guidance CISOs and security teams need to stay ahead of attackers and prevent successful attacks .
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