Industry
Municipalities
It's no secret that hackers have been targeting smaller governments or municipalities instead of larger branches of government. Most municipalities struggle with resources and fulfilling operational demands for their local population. Cybersecurity tends to take a secondary role and this leaves them susceptible to attacks from state-sponsored hackers or hackers looking for an easy payday. The effects of these attacks can range from having PII stolen or disruption of critical infrastructure services. It is essential for municipalities to integrate cyber risk management into the operational culture so that all preventive controls are implemented and managed in an automated fashion.
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 vulnerabilites. The best practice benchmarks for security configurations and known vulnarability 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.
Municipalities need tools that are cost effective, user friendly, and provide reports that easily identify security gaps.
Municipalities have limited resources, so finding one tool that fulfills all three requirements becomes a requirement of its own. Since the users of the tool will most likely be fulfilling operational and security responsibilities, the tool must be easy to manage and provide automation. The reports must provide a risk overview for management and detailed information on how a discovered issue can be remediated.
Patching vulnerabilities prevents known attacks
Organizations need an easy way to identify vulnerabilities and know whether a patch has been deployed. Nanitor’s Patch and Vulnerability Overviews provide a list of applicable vulnerabilities, the patches that address these vulnerabilities, and the criticality of those vulnerabilities based on CVE scores. The criticality information allows you to prioritize deployment and address what you’re most concerned with..
Hardening devices across your IT infrastructure
By using the CIS Security benchmarks, you can implement industry recommended configurations that secure your IT devices from having PII data stolen or attacks that could disrupt critical infrastructure services. The benchmarks contain detailed information on what configuration was found, the correct configuration that should be implemented, and the criticality of the configuration in your environment.
Reporting features for all audiences
Engineers favor reports that can tell them what the problem is and how they can fix it. Management is concerned with assessing their overall security posture and their progress as issues are remediated. With Nanitor's reporting capabilities, all audiences can be satisfied that they can view reports tailored to their objectives. The reports also provide valuable evidence for auditors that want to verify whether your organization is performing their due diligence and following any applicable regulations.
Compliance frameworks provide a blueprint for your security program
Nanitor provides several compliance frameworks that can be utilized as a blueprint and tailored to your organization's needs. While these frameworks like NIST 800-53 controls may be extensive, you have the ability to view the criticality of each control and prioritize your implementations to address what can most affect you.
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.