Synack recently released a new survey of enterprise security teams and found that 95% discovered a high or critical vulnerability outside their scheduled testing window in the past year, with 42% saying it happens at least monthly, no breach required to expose the gap, no dramatic incident, just the ordinary rhythm of scheduled testing failing to keep pace with how fast environments actually change.
You can read the press release here: New Synack Research: The State of Continuous Security Validation
Brian Proctor, Founder and CEO, Frenos
“Finding critical vulnerabilities outside scheduled tests is the new norm. AI has pushed time-to-exploit toward zero, and no security team can continuously run live exploitation without breaking things. Nowhere is that more true than in OT and critical infrastructure, where live testing is a non-starter. Simulation against a digital twin of the environment is the only path to continuous, high-confidence validation of what’s actually exploitable. The real red flag in this data isn’t the 95%; it’s that only 15% of organizations are validating continuously.”
If you’re not testing, or testing frequently enough, then you aren’t protected. It is that simple. I would strongly recommend that all organizations increase their testing as part of their broader plan to stay secure.
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95% of security teams are finding critical vulnerabilities their scheduled tests missed
Synack recently released a new survey of enterprise security teams and found that 95% discovered a high or critical vulnerability outside their scheduled testing window in the past year, with 42% saying it happens at least monthly, no breach required to expose the gap, no dramatic incident, just the ordinary rhythm of scheduled testing failing to keep pace with how fast environments actually change.
You can read the press release here: New Synack Research: The State of Continuous Security Validation
Brian Proctor, Founder and CEO, Frenos
“Finding critical vulnerabilities outside scheduled tests is the new norm. AI has pushed time-to-exploit toward zero, and no security team can continuously run live exploitation without breaking things. Nowhere is that more true than in OT and critical infrastructure, where live testing is a non-starter. Simulation against a digital twin of the environment is the only path to continuous, high-confidence validation of what’s actually exploitable. The real red flag in this data isn’t the 95%; it’s that only 15% of organizations are validating continuously.”
If you’re not testing, or testing frequently enough, then you aren’t protected. It is that simple. I would strongly recommend that all organizations increase their testing as part of their broader plan to stay secure.
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