Proactive Defense Optimization

Security posture management is a cybersecurity practice that monitors an organization’s digital infrastructure and security tools for misconfigurations that could be exploited by attackers. XM Cyber provide Proactive Security Posture Management across the hybrid infrastructure via the Continuous Exposure Management Platform, combined with the XM Security Controls Monitoring module to extend PSPM to analyze security controls and the configuration of security tools to optimize their effectiveness.

XM Cyber offer a unique approach to security posture management for the hybrid world. XM SCM unifies the security intelligence for a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), On-Prem Security Posture Management (OSPM) and SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) all in the single platform. Extended use cases for XM Cyber also include Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) and Active Directory Security Posture Management (ADSPM).

XM SCM provide comprehensive and flexible connectors for a wide variety of security and infrastructure tools, wherever they reside. Tools can be On-Prem Appliances such as NGFWs from Palo Alto and Checkpoint, Application security such as F5 ASM, Cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. SCM can also be connected via API to SaaS applications such as Salesforce, Teams and Office365, along with other SaaS delivered security solutions such as CrowdStrike Falcon, Cisco Umbrella, Darktrace, Zscaler, SentinelOne and many more. The automate of workflows in response to the SCM findings, integrations are provided to ServiceNow, Jira and other ITSM, and SOAR solutions. For full details of the supported list of tools, please see our Technology Integrations Page.

Effective cyber defense requires well-defined and activated security policies alongside advanced tools. The Critical Security Controls by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) provide specific measures to combat common cyber threats. These controls prioritize a concise set of high-impact actions derived from common attack patterns and validated by a broad community of government and industry practitioners. Critical Security Controls (CSCs) are the fundamental data, processes, and actions every enterprise employs to prevent, alert, and respond to cyber-attacks. XM SCM builds and maintains libraries of over 6000 custom-developed CSCs with its methodology, based on continuously implementing, retrieving, and analyzing CSCs from all relevant data sources in the organization. Customers can customize CSCs to meet the needs of your organization. CSCs are quantified to establish baselines for each security domain and for overall security within the cyber ecosystem.

XM Cyber empowers you to continuously evaluate your adherence to the leading compliance regulations and industry frameworks, to accelerate audit readiness. Examples of the Frameworks supported: CIS Critical Controls, DoD – CMMC, ISO 27001, MAS TRM, NIST 800-171 R2, NIST 800-53-R5, NIST CSF 1.1, SOC 2, SOX ITGC. Our Out-of-the-box extensive mappings of security controls to regulatory compliance frameworks and industry standards, makes it ease and effective to communicate compliance adherence to stakeholders and auditors.

By providing comprehensive awareness and understanding, XM SCM enables you to recognize misconfigurations and security gaps so you can address them in a timely manner. The platform provide ease to configure connectors, and out-of-the-box dashboards which can be deployed across the enterprise in matter of hours, requiring very little operational overhead to realize the return of investment, and provides real value and awareness almost immediately on deployment. XM SCM looks across tools and security domains to provide insight, understanding, and recommendations through foolproof indicators of cybersecurity tools that may be misconfigured, malfunctioning, or lacking functionality. Leverage our recommendations to prioritize security gaps that exist in each security domain, and act on findings to proactively to close those gaps. The solution also provides continuous analytics to detect deviations from normal behavior and alert on issues that require immediate action. Our CSC database is based on recommendations from cybersecurity industry leaders including NIST, ENISA, ISO, GDPR, SANS and more, along with requests from our community of CISOs. The CSC database is continuously updated, based on new threats, relevant information, new tools and tool updates, and intelligence received from cybersecurity agencies – so you know you can trust the information at hand.