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2023 State of Vulnerability Management: Key Insights & Strategies

By Cybersecurity, Report, Vulnerability Management

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In conjunction with Cybersecurity Insiders, we’re pleased to present this report of findings from a recent survey on the 2023 State of Vulnerability Management.

Managing cybersecurity vulnerabilities is a significant challenge for most organizations. Unaddressed vulnerabilities open doors to cyber threats, while the sheer volume of potential risks can make it difficult to prioritize remediation tasks effectively. Rapid technology advancements and ever increasing attack surfaces often outpace organizations’ abilities to stay ahead of emerging threats.

This survey was designed to shed light on current practices, obstacles, and perspectives in vulnerability management. Through understanding how organizations are tackling these challenges, the “2023 State of Vulnerability Management” report offers strategic insights and industry benchmarks.

Gaining Competitive Edge Through Automation and Orchestration

By Managed Service Providers

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One of the most significant challenges faced by MSPs today is the intensifying competition within the industry. To address the challenges of competition, revenue growth, and customer acquisition, MSPs are increasingly diversifying their service offerings. MSPs are now expanding into areas such as cloud computing, digital transformation and more often, cybersecurity. In an ever-evolving threat landscape, MSPs need a better way to deliver endpoint hardening services in a more efficient and expedited manner to protect their customers.

GigaOm Key Criteria for Evaluating Patch Management: An Evaluation Guide for Technology Decision Makers

GigaOm Key Criteria for Evaluating Patch Management

By News, Patch Management

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An Evaluation Guide for Technology Decision Makers

Key Criteria for Evaluating Patch Management

Software is rarely immutable. It often needs to be modified — patched — to fix a bug or vulnerability, add security, or update a feature. In today’s systems, patch management is critical for ensuring that the appropriate patches are acquired and installed for all applications and tools.

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Driving a Successful Zero Trust Project

By Zero Trust
What is the Zero Trust mindset, and what are the basics of implementing a Zero Trust framework for IT security?

Zero Trust is commonly misunderstood as a single framework that can be deployed as an out-of-the-box solution for all your cybersecurity needs. In fact,

Zero Trust is a comprehensive and flexible trust model that eliminates the principle of implicit trust from inside and outside your network perimeter.

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2023 Endpoint Protection Guide

By Endpoint Security

2023 Endpoint Protection Guide

As today's threat landscape becomes more unpredictable than ever, how do you mitigate risk? See the top strategies for protecting your endpoints in 2023.

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Today’s threat landscape is more unpredictable than ever in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing “Work From Home” and hybrid work models, leaving organizations vulnerable to an increasing number of cyberattacks. See the top ways to protect your endpoints and mitigate risk in 2023.

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2023 Patch Management Buyers Guide

By Patch Management

2023 Patch Management Buyers Guide

How do you choose a patch management tool? See our list of essential questions that should be asked of vendors to identify the benefits of each system.

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Selecting a new or replacement IT management or patch management system can be difficult, with many vendors offering what seems like similar features. This guide aims to provide a list of essential questions that should be asked of vendors to identify the benefits of each system.

Patch Management Buyers Guide 2023

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Syxsense has created innovative and intuitive technology that sees and knows everything. Manage and secure your environment with a simple and powerful solution.

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Syxsense Named a Fast Mover in GigaOm Radar Report for Patch Management Solutions

By Endpoint Security, News, Patch Management

Syxsense Named a Fast Mover in GigaOm Radar Report for Patch Management Solutions

We are excited to announce that Syxsense has been named a Fast Mover in the GigaOm Radar Report for Patch Management. This report is one of a series of documents that helps IT organizations assess competing solutions in the context of well-defined features and criteria, and provides a forward-looking analysis that plots the relative value and progression of vendor solutions along multiple axes based on strategy and execution.

This report synthesizes the analysis of key criteria and their impact on evaluation metrics to inform the GigaOm Radar graphic, which plots vendor solutions across a series of concentric rings, with those set closer to the center judged to be of higher overall value. The chart characterizes each vendor on two axes—balancing Maturity versus Innovation, and Feature Play versus Platform Play—while providing an arrow that projects each solution’s evolution over the coming 12 to 18 months.

As a Fast Mover in Patch Management, Syxsense provides full coverage of Windows, macOS, and Linux desktops and servers, as well as mobile devices and remote systems. Our strengths lie in lifecycle management, patch testing, patch deployment, patch prioritization, and a large number of third-party applications. Syxsense also supports an API, allowing integration with other systems such as ITSM and CMDB. Our Patch Management solution is deployed as a SaaS application with agents installed on your organization’s endpoints, and is a good fit for market segments including mid-market, large enterprises, and MSPs.

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Overcoming Your Endpoint Security Limitations with a Skeleton Crew

By Endpoint Security

Overcoming Your Endpoint Security Limitations with a Skeleton Crew

Five ways to bolster your endpoint security defenses quickly

For years overstretched and under-resourced organizations have contended with a lack of robust cybersecurity expertise to defend their networks and data, leaving them ripe for attack or internal mutiny. As far back as 2016, 46% of businesses reported a “problematic shortage” of their current cybersecurity talent, which ballooned to more than 2.72 million in 2021. Not only is hiring a nightmare but getting talent proficient in cybersecurity is more challenging than ever.

When it comes to ensuring your endpoints and networks are secure, you can’t spend long cycles onboarding and training new talent. Threats don’t wait. You don’t have years! You need solutions that are simple to deploy, manage, and maintain. Threat actor tactics evolve quickly. Your endpoint defense must as well. This ebook will dive into the scary realities of overstretched and under-resourced teams, provide some tips on how you can improve endpoint security with limited staff, and offer a glimpse into how Syxsense helps automate your entire endpoint defense.

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Embracing the Zero Trust Mindset for Endpoints

By Zero Trust

Embracing the Zero Trust Mindset for Endpoints

What is the Zero Trust mindset, and what are the basics of implementing a Zero Trust framework for IT security?

Zero Trust is a strategic security mindset that combines multiple security disciplines into a comprehensive solution. This white paper was written for Syxsense by Charles Kolodgy of Security Mindsets LLC. In the report, he explains the Zero Trust mindset, documents how it has evolved from concept to implementation, and walks through some basics around implementing a Zero Trust framework that you can utilize in your organization.

Embracing the Zero Trust Mindset for Endpoints

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How to Automate BitLocker Encryption For Your Business

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How to Automate BitLocker Encryption For Your Business

Enabling BitLocker across a fleet of remote machines can be a big undertaking. Find out how to manage and automate the process for your business.

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Syxsense Cortex is the one-stop shop automation framework for managing Windows, MacOS and Linux devices. Syxsense Cortex is included in Syxsense Secure and comes with a ton of build-in functionality.

For now, we will be covering how you can use a Syxsense Cortex workflow to safely provision BitLocker hard drive encryption on a remote endpoint. Hard drive encryption is one part of the larger set of work required to keep your company data secure. If a laptop or desktop computer is stolen and the device does not have an encrypted hard drive, the perpetrators will then have immediate access to the contents of the hard drive. Adding encryption eliminates or drastically reduces the risk to the data stored on the stolen device.

Unfortunately, enabling BitLocker across an entire fleet of remote machines can be a huge undertaking. This is especially true if those devices don’t check into the corporate network frequently. Each endpoint will need to report in that has not been encrypted. Then, an appointment must be scheduled with the end user to configure encryption on their device.

Following this, a technician gets to encrypt the endpoint. And then finally the device needs to reboot before it can be returned to the end user. This process can take hours, days or even weeks to coordinate. That timeline provides a significant window of risk while the device remains unencrypted.

How to Remotely Manage BitLocker Encryption

Syxsense Cortex provides the solution to that unmaintainable workflow by automating the whole process. Below is a full workflow which performs the entire BitLocker provisioning process, step by step to completion.

There are three primary phases to this workflow: Initiation (Phase 1), Roll-Out (Phase 2), and Completion (Phase 3).

Phase 1: Initiation

Below is shown the first stage of this Syxsense Cortex workflow. Each block represents a specific task which is being performed during the workflow.

To trigger this workflow, a policy is deployed to the affected endpoints. The policy is set to run any time that an endpoint changes its network. Once triggered, the endpoint immediately checks to see if it is on the corporate network.

To do this, the endpoint performs a ping request against a known IP address or hostname which is located on the corporate network. If the endpoint is able ping that address successfully, the task will end, as we can assume that the endpoint is currently located in an office and is not a high-risk device. Having confirmed the status, the task will end.

Note: In this example we are assuming that this task will run before the endpoint connects to any corporate VPN. If that is not the case, we could include additional logic during Phase One to verify whether the endpoint is connected to the corporate network over a VPN.

If the ping request comes back negative, the device is likely a remote device. The Cortex workflow will then trigger a system check to verify the status of BitLocker. If BitLocker is enabled, the task will again quietly end. If BitLocker is not enabled, an email will be passed to an administrator distribution list. This email prompts the administrators to approve or deny the next phase of the workflow. Because of the disruptive nature of this workflow, maintaining this pause and check task will decrease the likelihood of a negative outcome.

The administrators will then need to verify that the endpoint does in fact need BitLocker activated. Once the request is verified and the owner of the device has been alerted, the workflow can then be approved for Phase 2.

Phase 2: Role Out

Once the initiation phase completes, the device now moves into the roll-out phase.

During the roll-out phase, the endpoint is temporarily quarantined. When quarantined, the end-user will be informed of the quarantine status. Then, a PowerShell script initiates on the endpoint, enabling BitLocker encryption. Once the device is encrypted, the end user is prompted to reboot their computer. For this workflow, we opted to allow the end user to delay the Reboot for up to 4 hours.

If at any point during the configuration phase, the task sequence fails, an email will be sent to the administrator distribution list, informing them of the failure. They can then choose to manually end the active quarantine, or manually finish the task sequence. Once the reboot is finished, the device moves into phase 3.

Phase 3: Completion

Once the device successfully reboots from the roll-out sequence, the endpoint will then enter the final phase of the workflow:

First, the device is removed from the quarantine. Then, a final success email gets generated and sent to the administrator distribution list. The administrator can then use the Syxsense Console to confirm that the device inventory for that endpoint now has an active BitLocker encryption status.

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In addition to Syxsense Cortex, here at Syxsense, we’re also dedicated to providing IT security solutions that integrate all the tools you need into one, easy-to-use interface. As the first IT management and security solution that brings together vulnerability scanning and patch management capabilities into a single interface in the cloud, Syxsense Secure is yet one more way that you can harden your IT security against all threats.

We call it the future of threat prevention, but all you need to know is that you’ll get the ability to stop breaches, patch and quarantine devices and collaborate with others in the IT department to identify and close attack vectors. With the Syxsense line of products, you can stay informed, manage, and take action with the click of a button.

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