How Cybersecurity Asset Management Aids Incident Response
Incident response is a systematic approach to addressing and managing security incidents, such as cyberattacks or data breaches, in a timely and effective manner. The goal of incident response is to swiftly and efficiently restore normal operations while preserving evidence for analysis and improving overall cyber resilience.
In the event of a cybersecurity incident, cybersecurity asset management provides a foundation for incident response teams to quickly identify affected assets and take appropriate action to contain and mitigate the incident. It provides real-time visibility into your entire IT infrastructure, allowing your incident response team to quickly identify affected assets and assess the impact on critical business functions. This allows teams to prioritize incident response efforts, quickly and efficiently containing the incident and minimizing downtime.
How Cybersecurity Asset Management Aids Incident Response
Cybersecurity asset management plays a crucial role in incident response by providing you with a comprehensive understanding of your organization's digital environment, including its critical business functions, assets, dependencies, and vulnerabilities.
Identification of Critical Business Functions
Cybersecurity asset management solutions use AI and data science to identify critical business functions and their associated IT assets and dependencies. These functions are the core activities that keep an organization running smoothly and generate revenue. Identifying and prioritizing critical business functions is crucial for allocating security and IT resources and developing effective incident response plans.
Complete Asset Visibility
Cybersecurity asset management uses software sensors in your network to create a map of your IT infrastructure. It provides organizations with a comprehensive and continuously updated inventory of their digital assets, including cloud, on-premises, and container-based assets. In addition, cybersecurity asset management solutions can identify the connections between assets, allowing you to understand the dependencies that exist between assets, those between assets and critical business functions, as well as those between your organization and third-party vendors and contractors. In the event of a security incident, this visibility and knowledge is crucial to quickly identify affected assets and understand the scope of the incident.
Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability management is a systematic process of identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing weaknesses in a system, network, or application to proactively address potential security risks. By continuously monitoring and updating information about assets, cybersecurity asset management helps identify vulnerabilities in the system. Those vulnerabilities can then be assessed for their relative risk depending on their impact on critical business functions and related systems so that remediation measures can be prioritized. This proactive approach allows organizations to address vulnerabilities before they can be exploited in a cyber attack, enhancing overall incident resilience.
Efficient Response
Knowing the current configuration and status of each asset is vital for efficient incident response. Cybersecurity asset management systems provide real-time information about affected assets, facilitating rapid decision-making and targeted response actions to contain and mitigate the incident.
Accurate Forensic Analysis
After an incident, cybersecurity professionals conduct forensic analysis to understand how the incident occurred and what data or systems were compromised. Detailed information about assets and their interactions, dependencies, connections to critical business functions, vulnerabilities, and configurations, stored in the cybersecurity asset management solution, aids in the forensic investigation.
About Redjack
Effective cybersecurity asset management enhances incident response capabilities by providing visibility, proactive vulnerability management, efficient response actions, and support for forensic analysis.
The Redjack platform includes an AI engine that analyzes the communications between the assets in your network in order to give you a comprehensive view of your connected infrastructure. Beyond that, the Redjack solution automatically identifies which assets are connected to critical business functions and the interdependencies between assets.
This massively scalable solution arms you with the information you need to develop a data-centric strategy to improve the efficiency of your cybersecurity and enhance incident response planning.
Contact us to learn how Redjack has been helping the CIOs and CISOs of the world's largest corporations and government agencies manage their cyber risk.
