The novel, Catch-22, published in 1961 by Joseph Heller, became a colloquial used to describe a “no-win situation” in which there is no positive outcome from any decision you make. The negative result may be due to unavoidable or unforeseeable circumstances that caused a situation to change after decisions were made.
In many ways, managing cybersecurity infrastructure is not unlike dealing with a Catch-22 dilemma. For example, IT and security personnel are faced with the task of monitoring and assessing varied stand-alone cybersecurity products, such as EDR, zero trust network access (ZTNA), email security, privileged access management (PAM), to optimize their security posture, and lower costs and complexity. They find it difficult to resolve the fact that the single-function security solutions are creating more risk by complicating analysis with too many different dashboards, logs, and reports while confounding real-time visibility. The complexity can lead to slow incident mitigation and false-positive alerts coming from multiple disparate products, making the security they count on, unreliable.
Take heart, cybersecurity doesn’t have to fall victim to a no-win compromise
The “no-win” or “lose-lose” situation places you in an unfortunate position where none of the available choices ultimately benefit you or deliver a lasting positive outcome. For example, as a security engineer or admin, the CIO offers you the choice of an EDR vendor and a different email security vendor. Since these vendors can’t effectively share their security information, and their reports are completely different, it doesn’t make your job any easier, and you’re left with more problems than answers. Unfortunately, the organization will be at risk from a lack of coordinated and seamless integration — no matter how much time you put into monitoring and managing the different solutions.
Cybersecurity consolidation removes complexity from the typical IT and security infrastructure by utilizing one dashboard that consolidates multiple security functions and coalesces telemetry data from multiple sources. This simplifies monitoring and management, and more reliably and efficiently mitigates threats.
RevBits natively integrated Cyber Intelligence Platform (CIP) can help you shift to the “win-win”
Below are three reasons to consolidate your cybersecurity into single platform solution:
1. Lower costs by streamlining and optimizing services
Organizations can save substantial costs by consolidating their cybersecurity products into a single platform. Having one solution with a cohesive and unified approach means less staff training and a more efficient ability to mitigate issues and events. With a single platform and dashboard, the learning curve, as well as ongoing support, is streamlined. And following a security incident, organizations can save many hours in their recovery efforts.
2. Reduce manual time and effort that is prone to human error
On average, enterprises have over a dozen cybersecurity vendors and products. In addition to these known products, users install their own software, creating unprotected blind spots that increase an organization’s vulnerability and risk. When multiple tools are introduced, something is bound to break. It only takes a single failure to bring down an entire corporate network.
Security personnel make fewer mistakes when they have a standardized approach to protect their operations across workloads. Fewer errors can result in lower costs and greater reliability. When an organization lowers its risk, it can leverage the business benefits of operational resiliency.
3. Product breadth and depth within a unified platform is the best defense
There’s a new arms race. It’s a cyber arms race, and it’s being fueled by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation. But the cost of procuring these armaments can be prohibitive for small and even medium size businesses. This is where a single consolidated cybersecurity platform can help level the playing field.
Find a cybersecurity vendor whose products you can trust
RevBits is innovating cybersecurity and delivering new levels of security IQ through behavioral analysis, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, through RevBits Cyber Intelligence Platform (CIP). A natively unified security platform that automates and integrates a suite of products and functional modules, RevBits CIP detects, alerts, responds and intelligently analyzes layered security data across the enterprise security stack. Security data is coalesced and presented within RevBits single-pane-of-glass dashboard. We are taking cybersecurity to the next level, innovating new capabilities, with multiple patented technologies to ensure our competitive advantage.
RevBits has solved problems made by siloed security products that create security gaps, leaving enterprises vulnerable to malware, man-in-the-middle, phishing and spear phishing, SQL injection, password, cross-site scripting, and other attacks. We automate the detection and remediation of anomalous activity across a cross-functional security stack. Coalescing them into a single intuitive dashboard, RevBits enables rapid cyber forensics with analytics and context, to quickly remove threats.
Automated processes eliminate manual steps and provide rich data for analysis. Analysts can clearly see the timeline and attack path that may cross emails, endpoints, servers, clouds, and networks. They can assess each step of the attack to quickly take the necessary action. Automatic aggregation of the chain of activities are brought into a comprehensive view to make high-confidence decisions, with fewer alerts that are prioritized for quick action.
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If your company has experienced similar challenges, or is currently wrestling with these issues, I’d like to hear from you. Please feel free to share your experiences. You can contact me at neal.hesterberg@revbits.com.
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Originally Published by www.revbits.com
