Cybersecurity is a bilateral sword. Organizations often work under a false sense of securityAssuming that the vulnerabilities, modern tools, polished dashboards and luminous risk results guarantee safety. The reality is a slightly different story. In the real world, checking the right boxes is not equal. As the Sun Tsu, “Strategy without tactics is the slowest path to winning. Strategy tactics are noise before defeat.” Two and a half millennium concept is still preserved: Protecting cybersecurity of your organization must be strategically confirmed under real conditions To make sure your business is very survival. Today, as ever, you need Checking difficult impacts (AEV)The main strategy that is still absent in most security frames.
The danger of false confidence
The usual wisdom suggests that if you secured the famous mistakes, unfolded a stack of well -defined safety tools and conveyed the necessary audits, you are “safe”. But being in accordance with the requirements is not the same thing that is actually safe. In fact, these assumptions often create blind spots and a dangerous feeling of false security. The uncomfortable truth that CVE results, EPSS probability and conformity control lists only in theoretical issues, they do not actually confirm the real stability. The attacker does not care if you are proud to match; They don’t care where the cracks of your organization are, especially those cracks that often go unnoticed in everyday operations.
Largely, based solely on standard control or one -year test, it looks like standing in a strong pier, not knowing whether it can withstand the hurricane if it concludes. . And you know that the thunderstorm is approaching, you just don’t know if either if your protection is strong enough. Checking the impact check puts these assumptions under the microscope. Not satisfied not to list your potential weak points, AEV Tirelessly pushes these weak moments Until you see which ones are important and who do not. In Picus we know it True Security requires verification about faith.
A problem with traditional impact estimates
Why do traditional measures do not meet the task of evaluating actual cyber impact? Here are three main reasons.
- Only half of the story tells vulnerability. CRIGENCE CVSS 9.8 may look horrible on paper but if it Really can’t use In your environment, is it worth correcting it really your top priority? Gartner’s latest analysis emphasizes the amazing reality: “In 2023, only 9.7% of all revealed vulnerabilities were used – about 8-9% each year in the last decade.” Unlike this, the “moderate” lack of seriousness can be easily chained to another exploits, making it as dangerous as 9.8 in practice. The counter-intuitive truth is that not all high vulnerabilities are translated at real risk, and some of the low scores may be extremely damaged.
- Overloaded without visibility. Security teams continue to drown in the Cves, risk results and hypothetical attacks. If everything is indicated as critically as your people can separate the signal from the noise? Again, it is important to remember that not all expositions carry the same weight, and the treatment of each part is equally ended as bad as to ignore them at all. Too often real Threats are lost in the flow of insignificant data. However, knowing what the weak opponents’ databases actually you can use Everything changes; This allows you to focus on and intellectually overcome – the real risks that hide in the dark.
- A gap between theory and practice. Traditional scanning and penetration tests literally provide shooting in time. But the pictures quickly age and badly, in cybersecurity. Report from the last quarter does not reflect what is happening right now. This gap between assessment and reality means that organizations often find that their organization is not really safe only after violation.
Checking from competition: Finally stress test on cybersecurity
Confrontation check (AEV) is a logical evolution for security teams ready to go beyond assumptions and desirable thinking. AEV functions as continuous “Stress -test on cybersecurity” for your organization and its protection. Gartner 2024 Exhausage Cycle for Safety Operations Consolidated BAS and Automated Petting/Red are united into a single competition check, emphasizing that these previously delivered tools are more powerful together. Let’s see carefully:
- Violation and Modeling Attack (BAS): You can view BAS as an automated, permanent sparring that safely imitates famous cyber -defeat and attacker’s behavior in your environment. BAS constantly checks how well your control reveals and prevents malicious action by giving constant evidence of what attacks get and which ones slip.
- Automated Testing for penetration: A methodical probe that not only scans vulnerabilities but also actively tries to operate, step by step, just as the actual attacker would be. These automated fives (sometimes called a continuous or offline petings) run targeted attacks to find true weaknesses, feats chains and check your system reactions.
The main thing is that AEV is not only in technology – it is also a shift in thinking. Now the leading CISO are in favor of the “Make a Violation” approach: judging the enemy will Penetrate into your initial protection, you can focus on checking the readiness for this event. In practice, this means constantly imitating the enemy tactics in your complete murder chain-Ad of initial access, to the lateral movement, to the expansion of data, and providing people and tools, and ideally stops every step. This is the goal: Really active protection.
Hartner predicts that by 2028, Permanent Impact Checking will be adopted as an alternative to the traditional requirements of pent within the regulatory framework. The security leaders who think forward are already moving in this way, why strengthen this marina only once a year and hope for the best if you can constantly experience and strengthen it to adapt to the rise of the constantly developing threat?
From noise to accuracy: focus on what is important
One of the biggest problems in different security teams is the inability to overcome the noise. Therefore Checking the competition is so important: it reorienates your teams about what really matters to your organization:
- Eliminating the assumptions showing you which vulnerabilities can be used in fact and how. Instead of sweat over dozens of scary CVSS 9+ st that attractions power exploit, you will learn which ones they tin Use in your environment and in what sequence. This allows you to determine the protection based on Actual risk rather than a hypothetical degree of severity.
- Ordering recovery. Instead of endless lag of “critical” conclusions that seem to never shrink, AEV gives a clear, structured look, which impact really exploits in your environment, often in dangerous combinations that would not be obvious from the results of isolated scan. This means that teams can finally break out of the reaction and actively fix that really Required correction, dramatically reduces the risk and Save time and effort.
- Instilling confidence (good view). If the AEV testing is not able to violate certain control – if the attack cannot pass your defense of the final points or lateral motion, you have froze – you get confidence that the defense holds the line. You can then focus your attention elsewhere. In short, you and your teams will get a loan for what they do properly, and do not blame the wrong things.
This transition to the defense -oriented check has a tangible payment: Gartner conducts projects that by 2026 organizations that prefer investment -based investments Constant managing the effects of threats (including AEV) will suffer two -thirds of less violations. This is a mass reduction in risk achieved by zero on right Problems.
Picus security: Leading force verification force (AEV)
In Picus we have been at the forefront of security checks since 2013, pioneer violation and modeling of the attack, and now integrating it with automated penetration testing to help organizations understand the effectiveness of their protection. Since Platform Picus security checkSecurity teams get clarity that they need to act decisively. No longer blind spots, more assumptions, just testing in the real world that ensures that your control is ready for today and tomorrow’s threats.
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Note: This article was written by -written and contributed Doctor assumes that OarlahCo -founder Picus and VP with Picus Labs, where we believe that true safety is earned rather than assumed.
