Automated Remediation

Security challenges have taken a turn for the worse as organizations increasingly adopt multicloud environments. In these complex environments, data, workloads, and configurations are scattered across different platforms, making it fairly challenging for teams to identify risks or misconfigurations effectively. In fact, as many organizations deal in large volumes of sensitive data, they need to address these risks proactively to prevent legal implications, reputational harms, and operational disruptions.

When it comes to remediation, fixing misconfigurations is only part of the process. The process requires mitigating security risks across different domains, such as unauthorized access and outdated encryption techniques. Manually resolving security risks across different fronts is not only challenging but also time-consuming and prone to human error. Moreover, not every security risk demands automated remediation. There are certain high-stakes situations where security teams need to remediate manually to prevent any disruptions in services. Security teams understand that very well, and thus they take great caution in implementing any automated remediation that could break critical workloads or delete valuable data.

Modern DSPM solutions leverage predefined policies and tailored rules to automate remediation and overcome these challenges with utmost efficiency. Using these capabilities, security teams can effectively automate the remediation of issues like unencrypted data stores, misconfigured settings, etc. Teams can further orchestrate automated remediation workflows for specific compliance requirements, risk thresholds, and other business-critical objectives.

DSPM works by first discovering posture gaps across environments and resources and flagging risks along with their context based on severity and impact. Security teams then review those findings and decide whether those risks require automated remediation or manual remediation. For automated remediation, the DSPM solution may immediately enforce policy-based corrections. For issues requiring detailed scrutiny, DSPM would generate tickets by leveraging federated systems for manual resolution. Teams can keep track of every remediation based on its status, such as Open or Resolved tickets. With real-time visibility into the remediation progress, security teams can ensure continuous improvement of both approaches.

Through continuous, automated remediation, organizations can significantly reduce time and effort without compromising the operations of critical systems. The ability to define predefined and customer policies helps organizations ensure that auto-remediation aligns with rules, risk policies, and legal requirements.