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WHY SECURITY VALIDATION IS IMPORTANT?

It helps security leaders address security gaps and vulnerabilities more pragmatically.

Your security staff don’t have the time and resources to make your environment impenetrable. Right now, they don’t even have the time to respond to every vulnerability they know about - let alone the ones they don’t. The only way to keep your business protected is to take a pragmatic approach: focus on the attack techniques that represent the biggest risk, check you have the security controls in place to address them, and if not, redeploy resources. Effective security validation will help you do this.

It helps security leaders control and justify their budgets.

Security leaders don’t just have threat actors to worry about - they also answer to the business, and need to justify what and how they spend based on real metrics. By providing insight into the cost versus risk of both existing security controls and potential future investments, effective security validation will help them focus their budget on the right areas and reduce waste.

Security validation helps drive communication and collaboration.

Effective security validation also helps security leaders convey their agenda and get buy-in from other business stakeholders. By making the connection between real-world threats and potential victims within the business, they can demonstrate that their decisions aren’t based on fear and blind faith - they are driven by metrics that should matter to everyone.