In the realm of technology, the saying goes, “You can’t patch what you can’t see…”,
With over 20,000 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) published in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) last year alone, we find ourselves immersed in a cyber sea teeming with unseen dangers. As digital organisations grapple with increasingly complex risks, real-time visibility becomes a critical tool for navigating the treacherous waters of modern cyber warfare.
Our new reality of heightened digital investments and accelerated software projects resembles a rapidly proliferating organism, whose bug-infested genome is exploited by cybercriminals. It’s no surprise that as this digital entity expands, we find ourselves attempting to manage an ever-widening net of supply chain complexity.
Imagine your software as a labyrinthine stack of Russian dolls, each doll containing a different component of code, sometimes hiding a malicious bug within. That’s the reality facing organisations today. As DevOps teams often leverage third-party open-source code to expedite in-house projects, inadvertently exposing themselves to opening Pandora’s box, allowing the shadowy spectre of cyber threats lurking within these nested codes of dolls.
Threat actors now have more opportunities than ever to exploit known vulnerabilities and introduce new ones into code libraries. The notable exploits of Log4j and SolarWinds serve as chilling reminders of this reality.
In this evolving battlefield, the frontlines have moved to the endpoints—the devices we use. They become microcosms of the broader cyber environment, housing myriad components within their applications, each with potential bugs and misconfigurations waiting to be exploited. Adding to the complexity is the expanding attack surface due to the remote working devices and cloud investments.
The solution lies in time-tested principles of cyber hygiene: Know, Manage, Secure. We cannot secure what we do not manage, and we cannot manage what we do not know. The journey to build robust software supply chain security starts with a comprehensive understanding of our tech ecosystem, facilitated through thorough asset inventory and configuration management.
This is where Tanium comes into play. By delivering real-time insights rapidly and at scale, Tanium empowers teams to examine their digital environment, explore the nuances of applications, and take swift action in the face of anomalies. The days of reactive incident response are over.
In this high-stakes game of digital hide-and-seek, real-time visibility and swift action are not luxuries – they are necessities. After all, in the cyber realm, the adversaries need only succeed once.
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