Alert Overload -Cyber Security

Every organisation is handling vulnerability information from many different systems. With different locations and multiple of departments, organisations commonly use different systems in different areas of the business, while running penetration testing tools and security software that produce yet more data.

The number of alerts to interpret is overwhelming. IT teams need help bringing it all together, but what’s even more pressing is that all this information is vital for risk and compliance teams. These teams need to have visibility of all vulnerabilities, so that this information is presented to them in a format they can easily understand.

Unfortunately, most businesses deal with more alerts than they can handle, and are suffering from alert fatigue. It is time-consuming to interpret and report on alerts to other areas of the business, which means it’s extremely difficult to achieve visibility across the organisation.

Virocom believe gaining a single source of truth is what is needed. A single, centralised collaborative cloud-based Platform that brings all the alerts and relevant data into one integrated Platform. An integrated risk management Platform saves time and eliminates the need to manage and report across multiple points of data so that Chief information Security Officer (CISO) gets a centralised view of all different vulnerability sources throughout the organisation. Ideally, this kind of Platform could bring together vulnerability data across multiple locations worldwide to give visibility across the entire business.

By centralising this vulnerability data and linking it back to business risk, you can help risk and compliance professionals understand and report the information on risk registers appropriately. This output would also produce one single version of the truth that can be easily interpreted and actioned across the organisation.

This helps both compliance and IT professionals to assess the business’ compliance, by mitigating issues from any location and assess the source of the vulnerability.

If you would like to understand more in regards to trends in Cyber Security and what Virocom is doing to protect its customers and give information in an easily accessible dashboard, Virocom is hosting a Cyber Security event within the London Customer Innovation Centre (CIC) at London Bridge on 8th November 2018. To register your interest and attend please click the link here.