Promoted | 5 ways to make attack-path management more manageable, by XMCyber_'s Shay Siksik
be distilled to a single idea: protect your most business-critical assets. Protecting your most critical assets, in turn, can be distilled to a single process: manage your attack paths effectively.
To understand whether an organisation’s most critical assets are safe, it’s imperative to have visibility into how things change over time, and how those changes affect risk. Modelling attack paths to predict the likelihood of a breach is one way to do this. This approach provides a consistent predictive model that cuts through the noise of what can be bypassed, and what cannot, and contextualises this information within the framework of critical assets.
There is no more urgent challenge than illuminating and breaking key points in the attack paths that threaten your business-critical assets. Here’s how XM Cyber does it:To enable the business to move fast requires continuous risk visibility and agility so that at any point in time you know if new exposures across your hybrid-cloud environment could create a successful attack path to your critical business assets.
How do we do this? XM Cyber’s graph-based simulation technology continuously discovers the attack paths that lead to critical assets, enabling full visibility into organisational security posture. This allows users to understand how vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, user privileges and so on chain together to create an attack path that jeopardises critical assets.
Focusing in on the key intersections where multiple attack paths converge to exploit a critical asset offers more actionable intelligence than receiving a simple vulnerability alert about a single component without any context to the risk it potentially has to the rest of the environment. Without the insights of attack paths threat actors take, and how they can compromise your critical assets, it’s difficult to retain a high security posture and keep an upper hand against your adversaries.