Speed matters in cybersecurity. Responding to a potential threat in seconds rather than minutes can be the difference between a thwarted attack and a realized one. The problem is that human analysts — however capable they may be — often can’t remediate threats in time.
Investigating an alert and executing response actions can be a slow process — and that’s if security teams remediate them at all. Disturbing research from 2023 found that organizations only remediate 13% of vulnerabilities and take an average of 271 days to address the ones they do. So, how can organizations help analysts overcome their — albeit understandable — limitations and remediate issues as soon as they arise? With auto-remediation tools.
This article has been indexed from DZone Security Zone