Webinar: Embracing the Future with Continuous Posture Assessment

In today’s dynamic cybersecurity landscape, Security Operations Centres (SOCs) are under constant pressure to evolve and effectively combat emerging threats. Adarma recently hosted a webinar that explored essential strategies to fortify SOCs against new challenges through Continuous Posture Assessment (CPA).

In this webinar, Tim Davis, Principal Consultant at Adarma, outlined how CPA integrates outputs from Vulnerability Management, Attack Surface Management (ASM), and Breach and Attack Simulation to provide a comprehensive view of an organisation’s security landscape. This more holistic approach enables real-time risk assessment and proactive mitigation planning, essential for staying ahead of potential threats.

Tim discusses a framework for building a CPA capability.  Starting from asset discovery and information gathering, he describes how to combine asset and identity information with organisational intelligence to give criticality and context. With this information, security teams can assess immediate gaps that must be addressed for compliance and vulnerability management.  He also recommends a risk-based approach to managing the attack surface through the correlation of the attack vectors, vulnerabilities, controls and intelligence.

Here are some of the benefits of CPA and how it strengthens your cybersecurity posture by enabling SOC teams to do the following:

• Predict the likelihood and impact of a breach. By understanding how likely and how damaging a breach is to specific critical assets, teams can take a proactive risk management approach to protect them.
• Produce reports that are actionable and aligned with business risk management and incident response requirements.
• Manage the attack surface through the correlation of attack vectors, vulnerabilities, controls, and intelligence, and validate controls using AI and business insights.
• Identify and address immediate security, compliance and vulnerability management gaps, such as the lack of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
• Combine asset and identity information with organisational intelligence to provide context and criticality.