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What Common Environments Miss
You Can’t Secure What You Can’t See

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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
sources
Network Traffic Analysis
Managed IDS
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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
sources
Duo Security
Okta
Azure AD
Windows AD
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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
sources
Arctic Wolf
SentinelOne
Crowdstrike
SentinelOne
Microsoft Defender
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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
sources
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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
sources
Google Cloud
Azure
Amazon Web Services
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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
sources
Fortinet
Palo Alto Networks
FireEye
Sonicwall
Cisco ASA
Cisco FP
Cisco Firepower
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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
sources
External Risks
Internal Risks
Host Account Takeover
The Trouble with Tools
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.



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