Industry
Banking
As most cyberattacks are financially motivated, it follows that banks and financial institutions are a major target. As a result, regulations in this space are ever increasing to keep up with the increased threats, and high fines are used to enforce compliance.
In order to keep up, financial institutions need to maintain a highly hardened environment. This includes proper policy making, hardened configurations, and vulnerability management. PCI-DSS compliance is also often appropriate in many environments.
Key benefits
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Holistic view of the infrastructure
Nanitor provides an overview of all devices, software, users, configurations, known vulnerabilities, and missing security patches matched against PCI-DSS requirements. The outcome is a prioritized task list across your whole infrastructure that makes your remediation systematic and enjoyable.
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Risk-based prioritization
Make the most of your limited resources by prioritizing the highest-risk issues. Nanitor assesses the risk of discovered issues based on external sources and assigns a prioritization score based on the asset criticality.
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Blast radius minimization
Reduce the risk of lateral movement by hardening relevant configurations and known vulnerabilities. The best practice benchmarks for security configurations and known vulnerability databases are included in the platform.
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Automatic monitoring
Nanitor automatically (in 5-minute intervals) checks and reports on thousands of compliance-related security issues across your infrastructure. Trust is good, verification is better.
Effectively monitoring the effectiveness of your security controls
As attacks from cybercriminals evolve, your cybersecurity program will also need to evolve. The effectiveness of your security controls can be hard to track as your environment changes. The increasing regulatory demands from the industry and government will also require constant reevaluation of the effectiveness of your security controls.
Implementing effective security controls will help protect your organization from credential and ransomware attacks which are the most common form of attacks in the banking industry.
Prioritizing Issues based on Risk
By providing the results of your risk assessment and through the use of the CVE scores, you'll be able to identify which assets need to be addressed first. You'll have information on what you deemed most important, and you'll compare that to what is considered the biggest threat.
Close Gaps with Systematic Hardening Projects
Nanitor's Project inventory allows you to create projects, assign users, and track the overall status of the issues identified. It's important to identify issues, but it's equally important to do something about them.
Patching known Vulnerabilities
Patching is a simple way of mitigating the risks that come from unsecure software but the patching process must be properly managed. Nanitor's Patch and Vulnerability Overview provides an efficient way of viewing what is patched, what needs to be patched, and the criticality of each patch.
Consolidated view of security issues
Nanitor's reporting features allow you to view what you're doing correctly and what you can do to improve your security posture. The wide range of reports provide valuable information for management and engineers alike.
PCI-DSS Framework
The PCI framework is a set of global security standards for businesses that handle any payment card information. There are various components that range from procedural to technical and Nanitor can help automate virtually all technical requirements. The compliance reports provide detailed information on what the issue is, the amount of risk from non-compliance, the number of assets affected, and detailed information that helps you remediate any discovered issues.
PII Endpoint Scanner
The PII Endpoint Scanner can help businesses identify credit card and social security numbers that reside on any of your assets. This feature runs with optimization in mind by running a smart I/O and buffering scheme that minimizes memory usage. PII issues discovered contain information on the file name and a redacted extract of what was discovered in that file. The PII Endpoint Scanner can be configured to a specific country (US, UK and Iceland are currently available) and allows you to make exceptions for issues found.