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Qualys Blog Series – Threat Research Unit Report
Organizational leaders dread the consequences of a successful cyber-attack, which can be devastating due to data loss, reputational damage, and legal repercussions. Under the hood, security professionals are acutely focused on finding technical means to discover and remediate the risks – and keep pace with adversaries.
Consequently, cybersecurity strategy typically incorporates reactive and proactive elements, which entail the use of specialized tools, processes, and skills of cybersecurity professionals. To help beat the pace of attackers, automation of security processes has become vital, especially automated patching of vulnerabilities in critical IT assets and applications.
However, as recent research from the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU), has shown, many businesses still rely on outdated and manual methods for patching their systems.
In this blog, we examine Risk Fact #2 from the 2023 Qualys TruRisk Research Report: “Automation is the difference between success and failure.”
Read the previous blog in this series: Speed Is the Key to Out-Maneuvering Adversaries
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Defensive Security through Patching
For patching and vulnerability remediation, automation has become a synonymous requirement. With well-curated and threat-data-tuned automation actions, security and IT teams can better work in concert. Data-guided patch automation eliminates previously manual tasks and keeps an organization more secure by reducing the time in which threats roam free within the modern hybrid environment.
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