Security News > 2022 > September > What Is Your Security Team Profile? Prevention, Detection, or Risk Management

As attackers rely on a range of automated offensive testing tools to scan their targets' attack surfaces and propagate inside their network, a purely reactive defensive stance based on detection and response is increasingly likely to be overwhelmed by an attack.

The logical tactical move is to emulate attackers' TTPs and behaviors beforehand by integrating attack simulation tools to continuously validate the impermeability of the attack surface as a whole, the efficacy of security controls, as well as access management and segmentation policies, etc.

Using a Breach and Attack Simulation solution continuously validates your security controls efficacy, provides actionable remediation guidance for uncovered security gaps, and optimizes the remediation prioritization efforts in line with the attack success likelihood uncovered through attack simulations.

Running automated recon attacks shores up your attack surface management procedure by uncovering all exposed assets, including long-forgotten or clandestinely added shadow IT, while integrating continuous outside-in attack simulation capabilities with your SIEM/SOAR tool stack shines a bright light on its limits and flaws.

Incorporating security validation into organizational risk management and GRC procedures and providing continuous security assurance accordingly might require a certain level of customizing the available off-the-shelf attack scenarios validating the security controls and outside-in attack campaigns.

Typically, forward-thinking organizations already try to control their fate by adopting a proactive approach towards cyber security where they leverage breach and attack simulation and attack surface management to identify gaps in advance.

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