Panaseer. Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM), today announced the launch of its new Cybersecurity Controls Scorecard. Available now for all existing and new customers, Panaseer’s Scorecard gives CISOs an ‘at-a-glance’ view of the coverage, effectiveness and performance of cybersecurity controls across business units, geographies and critical services – along with control failures that are contributing the most towards gaps in security.
The Scorecard abstracts cybersecurity complexity by aggregating and distilling validated truth data into a single metric. Armed with a simple percentage score, CISOs can better communicate risk to both regulators and internal stakeholders – with the confidence that the data is complete and trusted. This enables business owners, security teams and senior management to better understand their level of compliance with security control policies, make informed choices, and track progress over time.
Key features include:
- Layered business context: The Scorecard layers risk scores with critical business context, such as breakdowns by business function, geography, or compliance regime, providing a deeper understanding of risk and control coverage to support informed decisions.
- Accountability heatmap: The Scorecard’s company-wide heatmap enables CISOs to drive accountability throughout their organization, showing which teams, business units or functions present the most risk. Leaderboards can be created to incentivize employees.
- Highly configurable: Self-serve capabilities enable customers to tailor the Scorecard metric to their individual business needs based on customer specific codified policies and data drive KPIs or drawing from existing best practice dashboards developed by Panaseer.
- Actionable recommendations: Rather than simply showing where risk exists, the Scorecard gives details, such as accounts that need to be disabled or systems that urgently need patching, and remediation actions to enable organizations to actively reduce risk.
- Ability to track progress over time: To track controls performance for compliance, customers can take a snapshot-in-time view, allowing them to compare historical trends as far back as they’ve had the Panaseer platform deployed.
Panaseer’s Cybersecurity Controls Scorecard is integrated into the Panaseer CCM platform, which collates and validates data from multiple sources – including systems with data about assets, people, accounts and applications – to gain a single source of truth on which the scores are calculated. This strong foundation of data science sets it apart from other solutions that rely on external data or incomplete surveys, sampling and attestation.
This approach enables greater levels of transparency and tailoring; the methodology behind the scores is fully accessible and configurable. Users can take a deeper dive into the Scorecard data if required, breaking the score down by specific controls – such as the percentage of assets patched – to gain a granular view of control performance across the organization.
For more information about the Cybersecurity Controls scorecard visit https://panaseer.com/platform/cybersecurity-controls-scorecard/.
Abstract Security Announces Launch of Abstract Intelligence Gallery
Posted in Commentary with tags Abstract Security on August 1, 2024 by itnerdAbstract Security today announced the launch of Abstract Intelligence Gallery (AIG) which puts threat intelligence to work for enterprise security teams bolstering their detection & analytics workflows without needing specialized platforms or complex management of intel data.
Abstract Security manages high quality threat intelligence through partnerships & integration for key intelligence vendors, including Silent Push, Flashpoint, Google Mandiant, CrowdStrike, Cybersixgill, Cyware, & SecLytics, enabled by the engine that drives Abstract’s streaming security fabric. In addition, customers can operationalize in-house intelligence by uploading it directly to their private Abstract Security deployment.
AIG is built on top of Abstract Security’s streaming analytics platform – enabling correlation of millions of indicators against billions of events in real time. This new capability unlocks several new use cases which will increase customers’ security posture, including:
The Abstract Security team will be at Blackhat in Las Vegas next week to discuss this news.
Abstract has seen growing demand since emerging from stealth and announcing its Seed funding in March 2024. In April, Abstract announced the opening of its first Middle East office. In May, the company announced the addition of Christopher Key to its Board of Directors and was selected as a “Pioneering Cybersecurity Startup” winner, as part of the 2024 Global Infosec Awards.
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