Gartner defines adversarial exposure validation (AEV) as technologies that deliver consistent, continuous and automated evidence of the feasibility of an attack. These technologies confirm how potential attack techniques would successfully exploit an organization and circumvent prevention and detection security controls. They achieve this by performing attack scenarios and modeling or measuring the outcome to prove the existence and exploitability of exposures. AEV is generally delivered as a SaaS solution with or without on-premises agents. AEV technologies provide automated execution of both simplified and/or extensible attack scenarios. Results data from an executed attack scenario is used for various outcomes, such as: validating a theoretical exposure as real, automating frequent controls testing, improving preventive security posture or improving detection and response capabilities.
SAP Security Software is a specialized suite of tools and technologies designed to protect SAP systems from unauthorized access, data breaches, and cyber threats. It ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of critical business data by managing user access, monitoring system activity, and enforcing security policies. The software includes features like role-based access control, segregation of duties (SoD) analysis, real-time threat detection, and compliance management. It also supports automated user provisioning, vulnerability scanning, and audit logging to streamline security operations. By integrating with Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and Identity Access Management (IAM) systems, SAP security software provides centralized control and visibility across the enterprise. Typical users include SAP security administrators, IT compliance officers, risk and audit teams, and enterprise IT managers who are responsible for maintaining secure, compliant, and resilient SAP environments.
VA solutions identify, categorize and prioritize vulnerabilities as well as orchestrate their remediation or mitigation. Their primary focus is vulnerability and security configuration assessments for enterprise risk identification and reduction, and reporting against various compliance standards. VA can be delivered via on-premises, hosted and cloud-based solutions, and it may use appliances and agents. Core capabilities include: - Discovery, identification and reporting on device, OS, software vulnerabilities and configuration against security-related criteria - Establishing a baseline for systems, applications and databases to identify and track changes in state - Reporting options for compliance, control frameworks and multiple roles Standard capabilities include: - Pragmatic remediation prioritization with the ability to correlate vulnerability severity, asset context and threat context that then presents a better picture of true risk for your specific environment - Guidance for remediating and configuring compensating controls - Management of scanner instances, agents and gateways - Direct integration with, or API access to, asset management tools, workflow management tools and patch management tools