Rising Demand for Attack Surface Management
The need for attack surface management is rising as attackers can now identify the most vulnerable and exposed assets in an environment, along with the vulnerabilities per asset.
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From its inception, Verve Security Center (VSC) has focused on simplifying the integration of IT and OT cybersecurity. With the introduction of the industry’s first open orchestration platform a decade ago, Verve Industrial extended best-in-breed IT solutions into the OT environment. Since then, customers deploy VSC to protect and manage hundreds of locations and tens of thousands of assets.
Verve’s heritage is built on its quarter century of industrial controls engineering history. Our basic principle is that operators need to apply the same rigor to managing security in OT as they do in IT. They shouldn’t have to settle for partial, ill-fitting, expensive or manual solutions.
Operators should gain asset visibility without the need for expensive and time-consuming deployments of span ports and taps. Beyond monitoring, they should remediate and act to protect their systems from the same platform, rather than solely identifying vulnerabilities or threats.
OT operations should prioritize their cyber risks using a platform that integrates not only vulnerabilities, but also a comprehensive view of the compensating controls (such as application whitelisting or firewalls), as well as the criticality of that asset to the overall process. Not all assets in the OT space are created equally. In many cases, the raw risk is not reflective of the asset criticality, its likelihood for exploitation, or the ROI of remediation based on risk profile.
Operations should have a central team to identify key threats and vulnerabilities and design specific actions. Allowing OT experts local to the target systems to have control over those actions to address the sensitive, real-time element of OT environments is also important. We call this thinking globally, but acting locally.
VSC Version 7.0 builds off Verve’s core differentiators of lower cost, faster-time-to discovery and remediation, ease-of-use, and IT-OT integration with a focus on “closed-loop” vulnerability management. Specifically, v7.0 includes:
These additional cybersecurity software features build on the foundation of Verve’s 100% software-based solution which deploys in minutes without the need for span-ports, taps or other hardware.
The rapid visibility into all risks within a platform to not only detect, but also respond and remediate in a prioritized way significantly reduces cost and time to secure facilities. It also significantly improves the cost effectiveness of maintain their security maturity once it has been achieved.
The need for attack surface management is rising as attackers can now identify the most vulnerable and exposed assets in an environment, along with the vulnerabilities per asset.
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