Corporate assets being moved to cloud storage are straining IT security management to the breaking point as larger attack surfaces are created to increasingly expose organizations to cyber risk.
The enterprise technology ecosystem is being rapidly reshaped by API-first, cloud-first, and digital transformation initiatives. This, in turn, comes at a high cost to cybersecurity.
As more assets are deployed into enterprise production environments, companies face a heightened risk of cyberattack that starts by exploiting unknown, unmanaged, or poorly managed internet-facing assets.
The modern attack surface has grown too large and complex for security professionals to manage using traditional, manual approaches to the asset lifecycle.
Unprecedented Workload
Given too many assets to manage, security teams are fatigued and understaffed. They have an unprecedented number of assets to inventory, manage, and secure across a cloud-based organization.
Researchers found that, on average, modern security teams are responsible for more than 165,000 cyber assets, including cloud workloads, devices, network assets, applications, data assets, and users.
With cybersecurity talent in short supply, organizations need to help their existing teams become more efficient, according to the 2022 State of Cyber Assets Report (SCAR) released Tuesday by JupiterOne.