BreachLock Innovation Continues with the Introduction of New Platform Features

To navigate your way through the fast-paced and changing world of cybersecurity, automation and seamless integration have become indispensable. BreachLock has introduced two key features to its automated platform:

1. State-of-the-art Attack Path Validation and Mapping, which allows users to visualize and pinpoint the most critical attack paths an attacker may take to exploit vulnerabilities by showing the connection between different nodes representing assets, vulnerabilities, and attack steps.
2. Platform integration with Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, and GitHub to enhance efficiency and collaboration. These integrations enable organizations to manage vulnerabilities more effectively, ensure prompt action on security issues, and improve coordination between security and engineering teams.

Attack Path Validation & Mapping

BreachLock introduces a groundbreaking feature: Attack Path Validation and Mapping. This feature provides a comprehensive visual overview of the attack surface, helping teams understand the relationships between different entities such as domains, subdomains, IP addresses, and vulnerabilities. By illustrating how these nodes are interconnected, the visualization highlights the pathways an attacker might take. This contextual understanding is critical for security teams to see the broader picture of how a vulnerability in one area can impact other parts of the network.

Understanding how vulnerabilities can be exploited by attackers is crucial for effective defense. One of the most powerful tools in achieving this understanding is the visualization of potential attack paths. This new modern feature offers a clear and comprehensive picture of how an attacker might navigate through a network to exploit vulnerabilities and reach valuable assets.

These paths are not always obvious through traditional text-based reports. By graphically representing the attack paths, security teams can easily pinpoint the shortest or most likely routes an attacker would take to reach high-value assets. This insight is invaluable for prioritizing defensive measures and focusing resources on securing the most vulnerable and critical points in the network.

Key Features:

• Critical Path Identification: The feature pinpoints the most critical paths an attacker might take to exploit vulnerabilities. By showing the connections between different nodes (representing assets, vulnerabilities, and attack steps), teams can see the broader context of each vulnerability within the network.
• Prioritization of Defenses: The ability to identify the shortest or most likely path an attacker might take to reach valuable assets helps prioritize defenses along these paths. This prioritization ensures that resources are allocated effectively to protect the most critical points in the network.
• Visual Representation: The visual representation of attack path validation helps security teams easily understand how vulnerabilities can be exploited in a sequence to reach critical assets. This visualization makes complex attack scenarios more comprehensible, allowing teams to focus on securing high-risk points.
• Chokepoint Identification: By identifying chokepoints or nodes that serve as pivotal points in multiple attack paths, organizations can prioritize remediation efforts on these nodes to disrupt many potential attacks immediately. This approach ensures that securing key points can have a broader impact on overall security.
• Enhanced Communication and Collaboration: A visual map of attack paths serves as a common reference point for different teams within the organization, including security, IT, and management. This shared understanding facilitates better communication and collaboration, enabling teams to discuss and strategize defense mechanisms more effectively. Visual tools are often more well-received by non-technical stakeholders, helping bridge the gap between technical and business perspectives.

Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, and GitHub: Integration Features

In addition to Attack Path Validation and Mapping, BreachLock has introduced three new integration features to streamline the process of transferring vulnerabilities discovered during scans directly to your DevOps integrations. These integration capabilities are particularly beneficial for users, ensuring that security and engineering teams can address identified issues seamlessly.

Integrations such as Azure DevOps and ServiceNow are crucial for security testing because they streamline workflows and enhance efficiency. By integrating these tools, security testing platforms can automate the transfer of vulnerability data, eliminating the need for manual entry. This not only reduces the risk of human error but also speeds up the entire process, allowing security teams to focus on analysis and remediation rather than administrative tasks.

GitHub

GitHub was also recently introduced and is important to DevOps teams as it allows the integration of security tools to automatically scan code repositories for vulnerabilities, such as hardcoded credentials, unpatched dependencies, or insecure coding patterns.

GitHub is also important in the CI/CD pipeline integrating with testing tools like SAST and DAST to ensure that every code push is tested for security flaws, providing real-time feedback to developers. By integrating shit left security earlier in the development process with GitHub workflows, allows security teams to catch vulnerabilities before the reach production.

GitHub makes is easy to track, assign, and manage vulnerabilities through issues and pull requests, allowing security teams to collaborate closely with developers by provide audit logs and code history.

Lastly, GitHub integrated with the BreachLock Platform and our ASM and penetration testing, allows security teams to automate security testing directly from their repositories. For example, security teams at BreachLock will push the vulnerabilities to the user’s development team directly so that they can fix the issues at the foundational level during development only.

Key Features:

• Automated Transfer of Vulnerability Data: Security testing tools often generate vast amounts of data. Manual transfer of this data to tracking or management systems can be time-consuming and error-prone. Integrations with Azure DevOps and ServiceNow automate this process, ensuring that vulnerabilities are recorded accurately and promptly in the relevant system.
• Real-Time Capability: The integration allows for immediate transfer of vulnerabilities identified during BreachLock scans into Azure DevOps. This real-time capability ensures that security and engineering teams can quickly access and act on the latest vulnerabilities without manual intervention.
• Reduced Lead-Time for Issue Tracking: By automating the transfer of vulnerability information, the lead-time for issue tracking is significantly reduced. This automation eliminates the need for manual entry, reducing the risk of human error and ensuring that critical vulnerabilities are addressed promptly.
• Prompt Action on Security Issues: Immediate updates allow for swift action, which is crucial for maintaining security and mitigating risks. By integrating with Azure DevOps, teams can prioritize and address vulnerabilities as soon as they are discovered, minimizing the window of opportunity for potential attackers.
• Centralized Vulnerability Management: The integration facilitates better coordination between security and engineering teams by centralizing vulnerability and affected assets within the Azure DevOps project. This centralization ensures that all stakeholders have visibility into the security posture and can collaborate effectively to address vulnerabilities.
• Faster Remediation: By enabling faster remediation of vulnerabilities, the integration helps protect assets from potential breaches and attacks. The streamlined workflow ensures that vulnerabilities are not only identified but also addressed in a timely manner, reducing the risk of exploitation.

Conclusion

The integration of the new Attack Path Validation and Mapping feature in the BreachLock Platform, along with the integration of Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, and GitHub represents a significant advancement in ensuring our customers have the latest innovation at their fingertips. Whether that is to identify and validate vulnerabilities and remediate risks faster with Azure DevOps and SNOW, or ensure every code push is tested for security flaws with GitHub.

The Attack Path Validation and Mapping feature strengthens offensive security measures by providing a clear and comprehensive visualization of multiple attack paths to disrupt potential attacks in real-time. By leveraging these powerful features, BreachLock aims to equip its customers with tools that enable proactive measures to anticipate and address potential threats, allowing them to stay one step ahead of attackers by viewing their attack surface from an attacker’s perspective.

About BreachLock

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Author

Ann Chesbrough