Chief strategy officer with Sevco Security, security industry entrepreneur, board advisor, investor and author. Read Brian Contos' full executive profile here.
Before NASA and its contractors launch a rocket into space, they perform an exhaustive series of checks to ensure everything is in place. At certain times, they may find one or two elements aren’t quite perfect, but they determine that they are still within an acceptable range—as close to perfect as they can get—and declare that the mission is OK to proceed. If anything falls outside the acceptable range, they scrub the launch and plan for another day. It’s all about managing risk.
Before taking steps like launching a new service in a cloud region, entering a new partnership or integrating with a new supply chain, an organization needs to understand what assets are exposed to and the extent of those risks. It’s one thing to know that an application contains a CVE vulnerability.
In assessing risk, organizations need to understand more than the fact that a vulnerability exists. If an asset has a particular CVE vulnerability, for example, it’s essential to know how critical that asset is to business operations. Equally important is knowing what compensating controls exist on the system and whether those controls are up to date as well as communicating with the management console.
For many organizations, automation is an essential aspect of vulnerability hunting and remediation. If you have a handful of assets, finding and fixing vulnerabilities isn’t much of a problem. However, for organizations with thousands or tens of thousands of assets, having a couple of dozen assets with vulnerabilities that don’t have compensating controls will put you at a high level of risk.
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