Core capabilities
Panaseer’s core capabilities provide value to our customers across the entire scope of security domains.
Challenge
It's hard to turn complex cybersecurity metrics and risks into actionable reports that security, IT, audit, the business, executives, and regulators understand.
Additionally, existing scorecard techniques are outdated and insufficient because they rely on surveys, sampling and attestation with incomplete data that won’t stand up to increasing long-term scrutiny from executive stakeholders and constant audits.
Solution: Cybersecurity Controls Scorecard
Security leaders can quickly understand and manage security controls, view changes over time, and explore how scores break down across the business. They can prioritize and take action to fix deviations from policy. A straightforward summary of your cybersecurity controls and initiatives allows you to report to a range of stakeholders, telling your security story, your way.
How you can benefit
Foster trust and support from key stakeholders
Help your key stakeholders better understand the impact of the security function, fostering trust and building greater support for your security initiatives.
Simple scores and trends
This at-a-glance view of performance scores means you can more effectively prioritize to take the next best action to improve your security posture.
Focus on the areas of greatest risk
A RAG map provides a high-level view of how your cybersecurity controls are performing across different business areas, highlighting successes, areas of improvement, and the security metrics having the biggest impact.
A new type of security scorecard
The overall performance score is calculated as an aggregate of the scores for individual security initiatives. Each score is calculated against your own policy, so it reflects your risk appetite: green is exceeding policy, amber is accepted, and red is failing. Our experienced team can provide advice on what initiatives to measure and thresholds to set. Improvements over a specific timeframe can be seen in the trend graph.
Challenge
You can’t protect what you don’t know about. Many organizations know that their asset inventory is inaccurate, meaning they will inevitably have gaps in their controls that pose a risk.
Solution
Panaseer builds a complete asset inventory, providing a single denominator for your security controls and tools. You can now compare your existing tools and controls against this inventory to discover and fix gaps.
Eliminate the time-consuming debates over asset inventory accuracy by giving all stakeholders direct access to a consolidated view of your complete infrastructure, applications, people and controls. Security, GRC and audit teams benefit from instant access to reports built on unmatched accuracy and business context, thanks to Panaseer’s unique approach to processing disparate data from security, IT and business tools.
How you can benefit
Complete inventory
Panaseer builds a complete inventory based on data from multiple sources across your security, IT and business tools. This includes devices, people, accounts, applications, and more. Feed this improved data set back into your CMDB for complete coverage.
Data truth
Panaseer’s approach provides transparent data lineage. Users can dive into the detail, ensuring maximum trust in consistent data that informs your critical decisions. And you can also trust that it stands up to scrutiny from stakeholders.
Automated reporting
Save time by instantly generating consistent and accurate reports. Freed from lengthy and error-prone manual data processing, you can more effectively collaborate on the critical work needed to improve their security controls performance.
Create a complete inventory you can trust
Panaseer provides trust and transparency across the data pipeline so you know exactly where the numbers for your device inventory have come from.
This view shows how the platform ingests data from multiple sources and applies a range of data science logic, resolution, and filters to de-duplicate and verify a true and complete record of all assets.
Challenge
Organizations typically use dozens of security tools and have even more security controls in place. But they don’t always know if those controls are working effectively. It’s often a manual process to check if your controls are working as expected, and by the time all that manual effort is completed, the information is already out of date.
Solution
Automate security controls assurance. Panaseer measures your controls performance against your organization's unique policies in near-real-time, automating security controls assurance.
Our team provides you with the guidance and advice you need to codify your policies and align with popular security frameworks, such as NIST CSF or CIS CSC. We’ve worked with world-class organizations and industry experts for a decade to build a collection of over 200 pre-packaged metrics across ten cyber control domains, all in one place.
How you can benefit
Controls assurance
Ensure your security controls are working as expected to enable holistic and consistent policy enforcement. Find and fix gaps to improve your security, reduce risk, and ensure you’re getting the best out of your security stack.
Reduce manual analysis
Automate away manual processes to ensure accuracy and speed while allowing your team to focus on more important tasks.
Best practice built in
Measure your controls in the context of pre-packaged metrics and dashboards, aligned to popular frameworks.
Measure the effectiveness of your controls against NIST CSF
Measure the effectiveness of your security controls against relevant areas of NIST CSF, such as identify, protect, and detect. Roll up the pass/fail rate of your controls into an easy-to-digest score.
Challenge
Security teams are overwhelmed by the volume of data from multiple disparate tools. You barely have the time or resources to fix the highs and criticals, let alone everything.
You need to prioritize, but that can be difficult due to a lack of context. When everything is critical, nothing is critical.
Solution
Panaseer combines data from across your security, IT and business tools to apply unique business context, which allows you to prioritize based on risk to the business.
At-a-glance breakdowns of your security controls performance across business units, divisions, and regions allow you to highlight successes and areas that need improvement. This allows you to optimize operations efficiency and productivity of your security operations by taking the next best action to reduce business risk and improve security posture.
How you can benefit
Prioritize remediation
Get relevant business context so you can help control owners prioritize remediation and take the next best action to reduce risk.
Validate remediation
Ensure remediation is effective and drive accountability throughout the remediation process, beyond even the scope of IT and security.
Figure out what to remediate next
Our Cybersecurity Controls Scorecard’s heatmap is based on a breakdown of business unit and strategic security initiatives, so you can easily figure out what to remediate next.
Thresholds can be set according to your business risk appetite, with red-amber-green (RAG) color coding. You can quickly highlight areas of success that you would want to be the highlights of your reporting and identify areas that require further investigation.
Challenge
One of the main challenges with any security program is that security tools don’t know where they aren’t.
In simpler terms, many security tools have gaps. The most common example is the CMDB. Almost every CMDB is likely to contain out-of-date or incomplete information. Security leaders therefore can’t use it as an accurate source of truth for the status of their security controls.
This poses a risk for two reasons. Gaps in tools and controls mean you could be exposed even though you expect to have appropriate protection. And your decision-making is impacted by a lack of trusted data.
Solution
Panaseer builds a complete inventory by pulling data from multiple, disconnected sources, including device, application, people, and account data. Then, it links and connects previously separate data points, even filling in gaps where data was missing.
This significantly enhances the accuracy and completeness of your CMDB and other strategic platforms. Panaseer automatically highlights the gaps in your asset inventory that would otherwise by a time-consuming, manual and error prone task. Audit can become a continuous and efficient process, rather than a point-in-time activity, with daily updates fed into GRC tools to confirm coverage, efficiency and performance.
How you can benefit
Complete, trusted inventory
Panaseer builds a complete inventory based on data from multiple sources across your security, IT, and business tools. This approach adds value to your existing strategic platforms, ensuring maximum trust in consistent data that informs your critical decisions.
Self-service analytics for asset owners
Add context and missing assets to existing systems, fixing gaps and ensuring they’re working as expected.
Add devices to ServiceNow
ServiceNow is one of the most used CMDBs among our customers. Panaseer helps to improve efficiency and collaboration using Remediation Objectives and integration with ServiceNow workflows. You can ensure that all the devices they expect in ServiceNow are present, and even identify and add unknown unknowns.
