Continuous Controls Monitoring

Continuous controls monitoring (CCM) is a set of technologies to reduce business losses through continuous monitoring and reducing the cost of audits through continuous auditing of the controls in financial and other transactional applications. XM Cyber provide an innovative approach to common CCM challenges via the XM Security Controls Monitoring module for the Continuous Exposure Management Platform. XM SCM provides comprehensive, real-time visibility into cybersecurity posture. Enabling enterprise executives to get ahead of security issues before controls incidents become major security and business incidents. The value and payoff is significant – in terms of risk reduction, productivity gains, and cost avoidance.

The purpose of investing in sophisticated cybersecurity infrastructure is to prevent attackers from penetrating your systems and causing damage. Your cyber defense infrastructure includes a range of security and related tools and is managed by multiple people across your organization. It is critical for CISOs, C-level managers, and InfoSec personnel to quickly and easily see the current state of each of your cybersecurity defenses, effectively manage them, and take necessary action to mitigate damaging security events. XM SCM enables you to create custom views to get an instant and comprehensive picture of the security status of teams, regions, domains, and services (such as billing, production line, and HR) within your organization.

Knowing if there are weaknesses in your defenses in every technology domain is fundamental to good cybersecurity. XM SCM gives you a clear picture of how well your organization is protected and what your risk areas are. XM SCM identifies suboptimal security issues that may constitute a risk to the security ecosystem. Alerts depend on the deployed security tools and can include discovered information such as malware, improperly functioning, or outdated infrastructure, missing capabilities in the face of emerging threats, deviations from proper security processes, sudden changes to rules, privileges, or access, changes in network behavior, and more.

The platform empowers CISOs, Security analysts, SOC teams, Risk officers, Security leaders, IT infrastructure managers, and senior business leaders (Board, CEOs, CIOs) with comprehensive cyber security management knowledge. It enables continuous monitoring posture improvement security aligned with cybersecurity, business, and regulatory frameworks, via both out-of-the-box and fully customizable dashboards and reports. XM SCM enables security professionals to maintain management control in a highly dynamic environment, with rapidly developing new technologies, along with new and unexpected threats. Collected data is provided in clear, near real-time, customizable views. This provides easy-to-read descriptions of the security status of each entity and domain along with their inter-relationships. Alerts automatically notify relevant personnel, and follow-up features ensure that timely action is performed.

XM SCM significantly reduce operational overhead through the continuous monitoring of security tools and their associated critical security controls. This helps SecOps team design and implement effective security controls, without slowing down the business or causing unnecessary friction to users or customers. Unifying your security intelligence in to a single platform helps identify gaps in defenses and overlapping controls, while also helping you drive adherence to industry standards and regulatory frameworks. Through it’s continuous passive control testing and real-time monitoring, XM SCM minimize the manual effort required for assessments while increasing the accuracy of result and speed in which they can be collected and analyzed. XM SCM helps eliminate human errors that may result in the misconfiguration of controls, or unexpected weaknesses in security posture due to configuration drift or malicious activity. Integrated reporting and centralized dashboards facilitate quick access to insights, enhancing decision-making speed. Additionally, faster audit cycles are achieved as auditors can focus on strategic analysis rather than routine checks. Overall, XM SCM empowers organizations to optimize resource allocation and improve efficiency, allowing them to redirect efforts toward more strategic initiatives.

Effective cyber-defense ideally prevents an incident from taking place. A preemptive approach is the best method to achieve this. XM SCM’s proactive mindset protects enterprise infrastructure and sensitive corporate data from attacks before the attacker’s strike. Ensuring the consistency of controls and the functionality of security tools across the enterprise estate is essential to maintaining a health security posture thus maximizing business continuity, making sure controls remain within desire thresholds and risk tolerance levels helps organizations across the global achieve effective cyber resilience.