Interpreting Gartner's "2024 Safety and Risk Management Technology Roadmap": The Value and Future Development of BAS Technology

Gartner recently released its report, "2024 Technology Adoption Roadmap: Security and Risk Management" (hereinafter referred to as "The Roadmap"). This infographic identifies 44 security-related technologies currently being adopted by global enterprises and maps them according to their adoption phase, deployment risk, and enterprise value. Security and risk management leaders can use this infographic to benchmark their technology investments against their peers.

▌BAS: A High-Value Technology

According to "The Roadmap", Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) technology is considered to have high value for enterprises.

Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) technology is a tool used to simulate attacks and assess cybersecurity defense systems. By simulating real attack behaviors, it tests the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of enterprise networks, helping security teams discover and remediate potential security issues in advance. The high value of BAS technology is demonstrated in several areas:

Improving the response capabilities of security teams. In the cybersecurity domain, time is money; early detection and response to potential security threats are crucial. Through regular BAS testing, security teams can identify and respond to network vulnerabilities and threats more quickly, thereby reducing potential losses and impacts.

Identifying and remediating security weaknesses. Cybersecurity is an ongoing battle, with attacker techniques and methods constantly evolving. BAS technology helps enterprises discover cybersecurity weaknesses in a timely manner and take measures to repair them, thereby lowering the risk of being attacked.

Enhancing the overall security defense capabilities of the enterprise. By simulating various attack scenarios, BAS technology helps enterprises assess the effectiveness of their security defense systems and identify potential weak links. This assists organizations in formulating more effective security strategies and investing in security measures where they are needed most.

▌Deployment Risks of BAS Technology

"The Roadmap" shows that the deployment of BAS carries a medium level of risk, primarily including talent shortages, high or unpredictable costs, security risks, technical compatibility issues, and vendor lock-in.

In terms of talent shortages, many enterprises lack professional security talent to effectively use and manage BAS technology. Furthermore, the cost of BAS technology can be high, which may represent a significant burden, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. Security risk refers to potential security hazards that simulated attacks might introduce to the enterprise environment. Additionally, due to issues like technical compatibility and vendor lock-in, enterprises may face challenges in integrating BAS technology and switching vendors.

▌BAS Technology is Poised for Widespread Adoption in the Future

In "The Roadmap", the position of BAS technology indicates that some organizations have already deployed BAS products, while those that have not are already in the pilot phase. Overall, the use of BAS products is an inevitable trend.

Gartner's "Hype Cycle for Security Operations, 2023" shows that BAS technology is in a stage of growing maturity and is expected to be widely adopted by the market within 2 to 5 years, indicating that it will become a mainstream security tool in the future. An increasing number of enterprises are gradually realizing the importance of BAS technology and are beginning to adopt this technology within their security and risk management strategies.

▌Sekeron Helps Enterprises Deploy BAS with Low Risk

As the first security vendor in China to propose the concept of "Continuous Security Validation", Sekeron is leading the expansion and development of the BAS concept through "security validation" domestically. Compared to ordinary BAS products, the Sekeron Security Metric Validation Platform has obvious advantages, significantly reducing the risks associated with BAS deployment. For enterprises facing a shortage of professional security talent, Sekeron provides professional closed-loop services, ranging from analyzing missed attack techniques to providing mitigation recommendations and facilitating closed-loop optimization. Ensuring you have a worry-free experience!

The Sekeron Security Metric Validation Platform is highly standardized and easy to deploy and use, reducing the need for highly skilled talent and lowering the difficulty of vendor switching. Furthermore, Sekeron adopts a flexible pricing model, allowing customers to choose the number of products to deploy and the subscription duration based on their own needs, avoiding unpredictable cost issues.

Sekeron's unique "Protected Sandbox" can contain the harmfulness of all sample files within the sandbox, ensuring that the customer's environment and assets remain unaffected during simulated attacks.

The platform possesses excellent compatibility and flexibility, capable of integration with logs from various mainstream security products, and also supports custom integration with specific products, largely minimizing the troubles that technical incompatibility might bring.