How Enterprises Can Use Continuous Configuration Monitoring to Reduce Risk and Optimize Productivity

How Enterprises Can Use Continuous Configuration Monitoring to Reduce Risk and Optimize Productivity‍

‍Recent research reveals that development and security teams continue to consider vulnerability management a high priority, but gaining visibility and actionable insights is difficult due to complex supply chains and capricious ecosystems. According to the research:

• More than two-thirds (68%) of CISOs say vulnerability management is more difficult because the complexity of their software supply chain and cloud ecosystem has increased.
• Only 50% of CISOs are fully confident that the software delivered by development teams has been completely tested for vulnerabilities before going live in production environments.
• 77% of CISOs say it’s a significant challenge to prioritize vulnerabilities because they lack information about the risk these vulnerabilities pose to their environment.
• 58% of the vulnerability alerts that security scanners alone flag as “critical” are not important in production, wasting valuable development time chasing down false positives.
• On average, each member of development and application security teams spends nearly a third (28%) of their time – or 11 hours each week – on vulnerability management tasks that could be automated.

These findings reinforce why companies need a standard and repeatable process for managing controls and system configurations. Without one, controls decay, configurations drift, and companies pay the price—typically with a breach or failure to meet compliance.

Fortunately, proactive companies can avoid these outcomes.