How security validation helps enterprises assess their security posture

A survey by the Ponemon Institute shows that only 51% of organizations believe their security protection meets expectations.

Despite being fortified by a wide variety of security tools, many enterprises are still unable to guarantee the effectiveness of their security protection, and the investment in security often does not yield proportional returns. Few enterprises can clearly and precisely deploy security defense systems and stay abreast of redundancies and gaps in their configured security products in a timely manner.

Security validation, as an emerging and rising concept and technology, can provide various organizations with continuous security posture assessment. By recreating the latest hacking techniques, it performs effectiveness validation on enterprise security defense products to safeguard the enterprise's return on investment.

Typical Security Validation Deployment

▌What can security validation test?

● Custom scenarios

● APT group attack activities

● Internal network lateral movement

● Server vulnerability patching effectiveness

● Data leakage

● Malware downloads

▌Main applications of security validation

Security posture assessment, defense effectiveness validation

Penetration testing refinement, organizational mergers and acquisitions

▌Methods for conducting exposure assessments

▌Factors you need to consider when choosing a security validation tool:

▌Some advice from Gartner analyst Jeremy D’Hoinne

• Automate security posture assessments as much as possible

• Define primary use cases and goals before building a shortlist

• Cover all assessment and integration categories when building requirements

• Do not expect total automation