Holistic Visibility

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Holistic Visibility

Seeing is Securing
The most proactive, impactful way to accelerate and augment existing security operations is by gaining comprehensive visibility into your entire environment, which requires telemetry from every possible source — a state known as Holistic Visibility.
Explore the Sources of Security Telemetry
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Secure Your Posture With Greater Visibility

Each element of an organization’s environment has a role to play in proactive protection and reactive response. As cybercriminals continue to evolve and expand their attacks, it’s crucial that organizations understand their sources of telemetry and the types of observations they provide.
What Common Environments Miss

You Can’t Secure What You Can’t See

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30%

Network

30% of network observations lead to ticketed incidents

benefits

  • Allows you to detect activity in transit
  • Enables network containment if threat is present
  • Doesn’t require an agent to be deployed

concerns

  • Lacks endpoint context so you’re unable to see what you have on that asset
  • Relies on threat intelligence of known malicious IP addresses
  • Requires scheduling and planning out elements to navigate bandwidth concerns

20%

Identity

20% of identity observations lead to ticketed incidents

benefits

  • In-depth knowledge of logins and to where they’re authenticating
  • Greater centralized control over user access
  • Multi-factor authentication promotes proactive security and empowers employees

concerns

  • Lack of visibility into what a user does after being authenticated
  • A steeper learning curve can result in greater false positives and false negatives
  • Privilege management is a constant task

15%

Endpoint

15% of endpoint observations lead to ticketed incidents

benefits

  • Provides comprehensive insight into each endpoint
  • Real-time visibility into activity
  • Allows you to contain and isolate a threat if needed

concerns

  • Requires an agent to be deployed
  • Vast definition of what is classified as "endpoint"
  • Some attack techniques can intentionally bypass endpoints

15%

SaaS

15% of SaaS observations lead to ticketed incidents

benefits

  • Provides insights and visibility into SaaS applications
  • SaaS providers deliver new releases and updates, reducing cost and effort of upgrades

concerns

  • SaaS applications can generate high volumes of alerts, causing alert fatigue
  • Automatic or continuous updates may impact established configurations with little to no warning

10%

IaaS

10% of IaaS observations lead to ticketed incidents

benefits

  • Shared responsibility model with cloud providers may reduce your workload
  • Allows for threat detection before a perimeter breach

concerns

  • Shared responsibility models can be complex, potentially leading to gaps in coverage and misconfigurations
  • Some of the change controls rest with the third-party provider, rather than the user

5%

Firewall

5% of firewall observations lead to ticketed incidents

benefits

  • Provides full visibility into what’s entering and exiting your internal network
  • Active monitoring of traffic and alerts on malicious activity

concerns

  • Can be complex to operationalize and highly noisy
  • Requires constant tuning
  • Assumes trust of everything inside perimeter
  • Attackers know to expect a firewall and can plan to defeat it

5%

Risks & Behaviors

5% of risk observations lead to ticketed incidents

benefits

  • Helps ensure proper vulnerability remediation
  • Proactively reduces breach risk by closing gaps before they can be exploited

concerns

  • Requires correlations with other sources of telemetry for maximum effectiveness
  • As an auxiliary telemetry source, many organizations don’t have it and don’t prioritize it
In the face of advanced attacks, many organizations turn to an all-too-common method of “improving” their cybersecurity posture:
More and more and more tools.

The Trouble with Tools

Expanding right alongside attack surfaces and the exploit options for cybercriminals are the number of tools organizations are investing in to properly monitor their environment and detect incidents.
But let’s face it: If tools could solve the problem, they would have by now.
THIS MEANS:
Unless optimized, the telemetry the tools provide will be incomplete. Without a properly staffed IT team adequately trained in tuning the tools, sections of your environment go ignored. And you can’t ignore parts of your environment without consequences.
The average security analyst spends 10 hours each week responding to false positives.
DeepInstinct.com
Over one third of organizations believe they have too many tools to achieve cyber resiliency.
CYBER RESILIENT ORGANIZATION STUDY, IBM 2021
One quarter of all security alerts fielded by organizations are false positives.
Infosecurity Group