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Automated Security Validation

Automated Security Validation is a cybersecurity practice that employs automated tools, scripts, and simulations to comprehensively evaluate the robustness and effectiveness of an organization’s security controls, policies, and procedures. Its primary goal is to proactively identify vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and gaps in the cybersecurity posture, ensuring that the systems and processes in place can adequately defend against evolving cyber threats.
This process involves the emulation of various real-world cyber threats, such as malware infections, phishing attempts, network intrusions, and data breaches. Automated Security Validation tools replicate these scenarios in a controlled environment to assess how well security measures, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, antivirus software, and user access controls, respond to and mitigate these simulated attacks.

Key aspects of Automated Security Validation include:

  • Continuous Testing: It’s an ongoing process, allowing organizations to regularly assess their security defenses to adapt to new threats and vulnerabilities as they emerge.
  • Realistic Simulations: The simulations closely mimic actual cyber threats, ensuring that the assessment is representative of potential real-world attacks.
  • Data-Driven Insights: Automated Security Validation generates detailed reports and metrics, providing valuable insights into the security posture, including vulnerabilities that need remediation and areas where improvements are necessary.
  • Risk Mitigation: By identifying and addressing security weaknesses, organizations can reduce the risk of data breaches, financial losses, and reputational damage.
  • Compliance Assurance: Automated Security Validation helps organizations demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards, ensuring that security controls align with established guidelines.

Pentera - ONE PLATFORM FOR ALL YOUR SECURITY VALIDATION NEEDS

How it works?

  • KNOW YOUR ATTACK SURFACE
    Pentera recons and maps your web-facing attack surface. This includes your domains, web interfaces, IPs, networks, and gateways. One-click to know.
  • CHALLENGE YOUR ATTACK SURFACE
    Pentera safely exploits the assets mapped with the latest attack techniques to uncover complete attack vectors – external and internal. Know what is truly exploitable.
  • PRIORITIZE REMEDIATION BY IMPACT
    Pentera pinpoints the business impact of each security gap and assigns importance to the root cause of each verified attack vector.
  • APPLY REMEDIATION RECIPES
    Cost effect remediation lists and step-by-step instructions are provided to fix security gaps and validate the remediation positive effect on the overall IT posture.

Benefits

  • IMPACT BASED PRIORITIZATION
    By safely executing real attacks, Pentera provides a full kill chain allowing you to identify true risk and security gaps so you can prioritize remediation resources on the 5% of weaknesses that constitute 95% of the actual risk to your business.
  • CONTINUOUS EXPOSURE REDUCTION
    Continuously test across your entire attack surface to empower your team by providing a real-time understanding of your posture across your full security stack.
  • TEST AGAINST LATEST THREATS
    As the threat landscape constantly evolves, the Pentera Labs research team feeds our Attack Orchestrator with the latest threats, including ransomware strains, to ensure your organization is always prepared.
  • REPORT MEASURABLE IMPROVEMENT
    Pentera generates a risk-based remediation roadmap with actionable insights that you can immediately execute, eliminating the noise. This is delivered in a concise report at the end of each test providing insight into security posture improvement over time.