5 ways to improve security hygiene and posture management

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As management guru Peter Drucker famously said: ‘You can’t manage what you can’t measure.’  That’s certainly true when it comes to security hygiene and posture management. Organizations must know what assets are deployed on the external/internal attack surface, understand the state of these assets, identify exposures, prioritize remediation actions based on risk, and work with IT operations on continuous risk mitigation.

This is made more challenging as the attack surface grows larger and more complex each day, demanding new requirements for data collection, processing, and analysis along with process automation. Unfortunately, these changes aren’t really happening—or at least not quickly enough. Security pros continue to approach security hygiene and posture management using point tools, aggregating data into static spreadsheets, relying on manual processes, and working haphazardly with their IT operations colleagues.

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Real-time is where the cybersecurity risk is

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I don’t know how many times I’ve heard cybersecurity professionals say something like, “Not having multi-factor authentication is a huge risk for our organization.” The truth is, that type of statement may illustrate a control weakness, but unless the unwanted outcome is a ding in an audit report where MFA is required, that is not the real risk. The real risk is the probability of a ransomware incident, for example, or the leak of personally identifiable information (PII) from a customer database.

For enterprises, risk lay in the potential losses associated with unwanted outcomes incurred through their computing environments. (The cybersecurity piece of this typically focuses on incidents where these outcomes were caused by an intelligent adversary.) A simple way to think about unwanted outcomes is to consider the ways we might fail to meet one or more of our control objectives – confidentiality, integrity, availability, or other objectives – and experience one of the aforementioned incidents, among others.

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