The Six Pillars of Cybersecurity Pain

Explore How Arctic Wolf & NetUtils Tackle the Six Pillars of Cybersecurity Challenges.

Discover why organisations trust Arctic Wolf Security Operations to alleviate, address, and eliminate their crucial pain points.

Cybersecurity is facing an effectiveness problem. Organisations spend over $165 billion annually on cybersecurity, yet attacks continue to rise in frequency and complexity. Last year saw a record-breaking number of data breaches, with headlines dominated by reports of massive hacks and significant ransomware demands. From our perspective, the traditional approaches to safeguarding data need to be fixed.

In partnership with NetUtils, Arctic Wolf® offers a superior security operations solution. By simplifying complex environments and optimising the tools you already have, Arctic Wolf provides fully managed, effective cybersecurity that helps organisations advance on their security journey and eliminate cyber risks.

How does Arctic Wolf achieve this? By addressing and resolving what they call the six pillars of cybersecurity pain.

1. Alert Fatigue

While tools can enhance protection and visibility, they also generate a massive volume of events and alerts. And therein lies the problem. Security analysts can quickly become overwhelmed when faced with a deluge of potential attacks. Many attacks succeed not because a tool failed to raise an alert but because an analyst missed or ignored the warning. This operating environment of all noise and no signal is known as cybersecurity alert fatigue, and it has actual costs for the professionals and businesses impacted by it.

‍Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response® works with your existing tech stack to immediately monitor your environment, ensuring proactive and dynamic detection and response to threats, intrusions, and attacks. Organisations receive timely and actionable intelligence from an always-available team of expert security analysts—without the overwhelming noise of endless false positives.

2. Staff Shortages

Finding, training, and retaining cybersecurity talent has long been challenging for most organisations. Still, the problem was exacerbated by the "Great Resignation" of 2021, with 80% of organisations unable to fulfil their target headcounts for security staff.

Arctic Wolf's Concierge Security® delivery model fills in the staffing gaps, acting as a force multiplier to your existing security team. If you don't have a security team, you gain instant access to security professionals that are otherwise difficult, if not impossible, to find. Our Concierge Security experts continuously monitor security events enriched and analysed by the Arctic Wolf® Platform to provide your team with coverage, security operations expertise, and strategically tailored security recommendations that improve your overall posture and ease the workload of already taxed IT professionals.

3. Vulnerabilities and Security Gaps

Effectively managing and remediating vulnerabilities is increasingly tricky for already taxed security teams. Often, even fundamental information like what assets exist, which systems have vulnerabilities, and which systems are misconfigured is challenging to obtain. The growing attack surface compounds cyber risks for organisations. Implementing new digital initiatives, adopting the Internet of Things (IoT), and the continued move to the cloud help drive innovation—but at the cost of increased exposure to threats. 

Most organisations cannot account for assets or fully monitor their environment accurately. This leads to gaps in posture that leave the door open to attackers. After all, if you can't see it, you can't protect it. 

Arctic Wolf Managed Risk® enables you to discover, assess, and harden your environment against digital risks by contextualising your attack surface coverage across your networks, endpoints, and cloud environments. Arctic Wolf provides around-the-clock monitoring for vulnerabilities, system misconfigurations, and account takeover exposure, helping ensure you are benchmarking against configuration best practices and continually hardening your security posture. 

Our Concierge Security Team will work with you to deploy the Arctic Wolf® Platform, install the Arctic Wolf Agent®, integrate critical data points, configure Cloud Security Posture Management, and build an understanding of your network through internal, external, and host-based vulnerability assessments. Arctic Wolf catches risks other vulnerability scanners miss, like software defects, system misconfigurations, and corporate credential exposure, helping you close the gaps in your environment.

‍4. Compliance and Regulation Challenges

Compliance is an essential part of a cybersecurity program. Heavily regulated industries are often a bigger target for cybercriminals because of their precious data (e.g., patient data in healthcare, financial data in banking, identity data in government). The purpose of cybersecurity laws and regulations is to ensure that organisations take the proper steps to protect this data. And regardless of what industry you're in, you need to comply with privacy laws, GDPR, and other regulations that apply to all sectors. 

While meeting compliance requirements doesn't guarantee that your organisation is secure, it provides you with a solid foundation for security practices. Not to mention that non-compliance may lead to fines and other penalties.

Arctic Wolf creates a custom security strategy for your organisation's specific needs. Through our concierge approach, Arctic Wolf helps you meet and maintain industry regulatory obligations while working around the clock to keep your organisation safe.

5. Human Error

While security technology constantly improves and becomes more difficult to circumvent, human nature doesn't change. Cybercriminals know it's much easier to trick people than machines, and they use social engineering schemes like phishing to accomplish this. According to Verizon's 2022 Data Breach Investigation Report, 82% of all breaches involved the human element, meaning that improperly informed and prepared employees are a significant threat to organisations. 

Arctic Wolf® Managed Security Awareness prepares employees to recognise and neutralise social engineering attacks and eliminate human error. Arctic Wolf addresses the most common cyber threats by influencing behaviour and fostering a security culture through fun, fresh, constantly updated microlearning sessions.

6. Tool and Technology Complexity

Many organisations add more security tools to keep pace with cybercriminals and secure ever-expanding attack surfaces. Rather than reducing risk and increasing efficiency, however, adding more tools increases complexity and reduces effectiveness. Plus, properly integrating tools is a time-consuming task that can only be accomplished if your tools are interoperable, and there's often little incentive for vendors to create tools that integrate and communicate with one another.

In partnership with Netutils, Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is vendor-agnostic, seamlessly integrating with your existing tech stack to provide immediate, continuous monitoring of your environment. This ensures proactive and dynamic detection and response to threats, intrusions, and attacks. Built on an open XDR architecture, the Arctic Wolf® Platform offers real-time threat hunting and monitoring across your network. This comes at a predictable monthly cost, far lower than the investment required to build and maintain your in-house security operations centre (SOC).

If you're ready to tackle your cybersecurity challenges and embrace managed security operations, we're here to help. Contact us to Book a Demo with our team today to experience Arctic Wolf's impact on your security.

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