Written by Nathan Wenzler, Chief Security Strategist, Tenable
According to the World Economic Forum, India ranks third in the world among countries facing the most serious cyber threats. However, despite this alarming statistic, a wide disparity exists between the amount of growing threats and the resources allocated to countering them. The cybersecurity sector faces a huge skills shortage, with a shortage of 4 million professionals worldwide.
Even experienced cybersecurity professionals, with limited resources, find it difficult to navigate and decipher the increasingly complex modern cyber threat landscape across an ever-expanding attack surface. I feel it.
The role of generative AI in strengthening your cybersecurity strategy
In response to this challenge, organizations are turning to generative AI to fill expertise gaps and increase resilience to risk. According to the survey, 44% of IT and cyber leaders express high levels of confidence in the ability of generative AI to enhance their organization's cybersecurity strategy.
Security teams are increasingly preoccupied with the difficult task of scrutinizing the various attack vectors within their systems and analyzing the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by potential threat actors. Companies often end up reacting to cyberattacks reactively rather than proactively stopping them, which is a less-than-ideal strategy for robust cybersecurity.
Indian organizations need to shift to a proactive posture of proactively pursuing and understanding threats to establish a strong line of defense.
The security landscape has become highly complex due to the expanding attack surface and rapid adoption of cloud services, virtualization platforms, microservices, applications, and code libraries.
Organizations must now address risks related to vulnerabilities, cloud misconfigurations, identity access, groups, and permissions. Traditional attack path analysis tools provide insight into a threat actor's point of entry, which assets are the primary targets, and what threats may be present, but they do may require painstaking manual effort to decipher.
Whereas an attacker needs only one entry point to break into a system and move laterally within the system, a defender can analyze the entire threat landscape at once and explore all potential attack vectors. They face the difficult task of identifying and implementing security measures where they can best reduce risk. Especially if you are operating with limited staff.
Empower your security team with generative AI
Generative AI has emerged as a powerful solution to these challenges by providing security teams with an attacker's perspective to plan for potential threats and prioritize mitigation strategies based on severity. Empower your security team.
Generative AI provides a way to more easily understand the complexity of attack surfaces by integrating data from disparate sources, allowing organizations to more quickly assess exposure, prioritize actions, and Enables you to visualize relationships across your attack surface.
This means security teams can make risk decisions faster and attackers have less time to leverage exposed assets to launch attacks on your organization.
Generative AI-powered attack path analysis integrates and extracts insights from vulnerability management, cloud security, web applications, and identity leaks to help organizations understand risk from an attacker's perspective. This facilitates an informed and targeted cyber defense strategy, allowing organizations to anticipate threats and strengthen their defenses accordingly.
Through concise summaries and mitigation guidelines, generative AI provides security teams with actionable insights faster and more efficiently, such as identifying specific patches, Eliminate the tedious task of manually researching what your security controls should be. You need to understand version numbers and how to fix unauthorized user access.
Team members with varying levels of expertise can draw actionable conclusions from generative AI, simplifying complex cyber attack vectors and enabling effective threat mitigation.
In summary, generative AI supports a more holistic and proactive approach to cybersecurity, allowing organizations to quickly understand and respond to potential threats. Freed from the constraints of siled security data, organizations can develop strategies to effectively and quickly predict, prevent, and mitigate cyber risks.
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