From CAASM to Risk Managament
In the last couple of years, the IT landscape has transformed drastically, from mostly static, local environments, to complex, hybrid, or even fully virtual, widely spread-out IT estates. Managing or securing the entire attack surface is becoming nearly impossible without dedicated tools to provide accurate data on every device that ever connects to the network. Lansweeper supports both your IT and cybersecurity team with always up-to-date comprehensive asset data to fuel your cybersecurity tools.
The Importance of Accurate Data:
Accurate and comprehensive asset data is the backbone of cybersecurity tools such as SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response), and Threat Detection systems. These tools rely heavily on the quality of data they ingest to identify, analyze, and respond to potential security threats effectively.
SIEM tools aggregate data from various sources, such as network devices, logs, and applications, and use this information to identify potential security events. Without complete and precise data, they may produce false positives or miss critical threats entirely. Similarly, SOAR platforms automate and orchestrate responses to incidents based on data-driven insights. Any inaccuracies in the data can lead to inappropriate or ineffective responses, potentially escalating the threat.
Similarly, threat detection tools depend on comprehensive data to identify patterns and behaviors indicative of an attack. Accurate and up-to-date asset data allows them to track subtle changes in behavior or traffic patterns. The effectiveness and reliability of these cybersecurity tools depend on the quality, accuracy, and completeness of the data they process.
Fuel Your SIEM and SOAR Through Lansweeper Integrations
Lansweeper’s unrivaled discovery engine gathers comprehensive data from all your IT, OT, and IoT assets, creating a reliable and always up-to-date inventory of your technology estate. It integrates seamlessly with your existing tech stack, including leading SIEM and SOAR tools like Splunk ES, Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, IBM QRadar, MSFT Sentinal, Splunk SOAR, and more.
Lansweeper automatically enriches SIEM security events with contextual data about users, assets, and vulnerabilities for more holistic insights and easier compliance reporting. This simplifies and accelerates event investigation and response. There is no need to hunt for your data in multiple tools, instead you have your IT asset data right at your fingertips.
Similarly, for your SOAR tools, Lansweeper simplifies the handling of events and alerts by providing the data necessary for quick response orchestration and issue resolution by providing contextual information and automating remediation workflows.
Lansweeper also keeps your threat and vulnerability detection tools fueled with reliable and comprehensive asset data. This way they can easily pick up on any changes in patterns or behaviors that may indicate a threat to your network, ensuring faster incident response and proactive vulnerability management.
Empowering IT and Cybersecurity Teams With Lansweeper
Lansweeper doesn’t just support your cybersecurity team. There are multiple ways in which your IT team secures the network simply through proper IT asset management. The IT team, through their efforts to keep the network running smoothly and well managed, is often the first to notice anything amiss in the case of a cybersecurity incident.
Lansweeper provides both the IT team and the cybersecurity team with a single source of truth for all asset data, as well as the tools they need to activate that data. A combination of built-in or customizable reports and dashboards, easily allows you to extract the information you need the most. Comprehensive network diagrams give you a visual overview of your IT estate, making it possible to spot configuration and interdependencies, but also rogue and unmanaged devices at a glance. Thanks to these insights, you can more accurately assess the risk profile of each asset, as well as isolate compromised devices.
On top of the classic IT asset management functionality, Lansweeper also provides vulnerability insights. This overview lists all possibly compromised assets along with the vulnerabilities that are threatening them, the CVSS score, and any available information from the vendor, including patch availability. These vulnerability insights, contextualized by the IT asset data gathered by Lansweeper help IT and cybersecurity teams to perform informed risk assessments, prioritize response and remediation efforts accordingly, and efficiently allocate the available resources.
The feature that finds itself the most on the bridge between ITAM and cybersecurity would be the vulnerability insights. This overview shows you a list of all potentially vulnerable devices, along with the vulnerabilities that are threatening your assets, the CVSS score, any additional information available from the vendor, and patch availability. This vulnerability information, as well as the visibility into the surrounding IT ecosystem, allows you to make an informed risk assessment, and more accurately prioritize your incident response and remediation efforts, and more efficiently allocate available resources.
Bridging the Gap
Lansweeper bridges the gap between your IT and cybersecurity teams by providing a shared single source of truth for IT asset data. This eliminates the many data silos that many organizations struggle with. Traditionally, data is gathered by certain tools or for certain projects, resulting in several incomplete and often outdated data sets that are often used for 1 very specific purpose or project. By providing one, comprehensive and reliable inventory of your technology estate, you can be sure that everyone is working with the same information, leading to better communication and decision-making for risk assessment, incident response, and resource optimization.
Broader Benefits of Better IT Data
Better IT asset management, SIEM, SOAR, and overall cybersecurity will lead to better results for your entire organization. Improved security means better data protection and thus compliance with industry standards and regulations. Better risk assessment and incident response lead to better business continuity and less downtime, improving your organization’s reputation in the eyes of stakeholders and customers.
Start Fueling Your Cybersecurity With Accurate Asset Data
The increasing complexity of hybrid IT environments has significantly increased the value of reliable and comprehensive asset data for cybersecurity. Lansweeper provides unrivaled breadth and depth of accurate and always up-to-date IT asset data. Thanks to seamless integrations, you can fuel your SIEM, SOAR, and threat detection tools with the data needed to identify, analyze, and respond to threats efficiently.
Lansweeper bridges the gap between IT and cybersecurity teams by providing a unified source of truth, leading to better communication and decision-making and strengthening your overall security posture. In an era where every connected device is a potential attack vector, the right data is essential for staying ahead of threats, ensuring compliance, and maintaining business continuity. Start leveraging Lansweeper’s integrations today to fuel your cybersecurity strategy with the accurate asset data it needs to succeed.
