If you’ve been in the security industry for any amount of time, you’re no stranger to false positives. They show up in nearly every security monitoring tool and can waste an incredible amount of time and resources that your team should be spending on issues that actually matter.
The good news is, there is a way to measurably reduce them so you can reallocate your team’s time from investigative to proactive work. Here’s how.
Challenges in the vulnerability management process
To begin, let’s discuss a few of the top challenges when it comes to investigation for vulnerability management. The first challenge is that triage sessions, especially on false positives, are a serious resource drain. When an alert comes in, the amount of effort that goes into coordinating work across IT, development, and security teams only to find out it’s a false positive can often be a huge resource drain. This can be frustrating to non-security teams, leading them to deprioritize security tasks for ones that seem more fruitful, leaving real vulnerabilities unattended to.
The second challenge is the influx of off-network devices. Hard to keep track of and scan regularly, they can often run rogue without proper monitoring. That or security teams have to manually scan them, which is a time-consuming process. Furthermore, with the influx of remote workers, risk intensifies and visibility continues to wane.
The third challenge is visibility without context. Even though your solution may give you meaningful visibility into your environment, it could lack the necessary context to help you understand what’s going on. Because of this, it can be difficu ..
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