Security Controls Optimization by Discern Security
Discern Security is an AI-powered platform integrated security controls assessment and policy management. Acting as a proactive security advisor, it continuously analyzes and optimizes security controls in real-time while fostering cross-platform intelligence by building a cybersecurity mesh.
Here's how it works:
- Baseline Establishment: Discern seamlessly integrates with major security platforms like EDR, SASE, Email, IAM, etc. and ingests information to establish a baseline for security controls and configurations, identifying existing protection gaps.
- Scoring Process: Each security deployment undergoes meticulous scoring, assessing control effectiveness and associated risk factors.
- Generative AI Assistance: Leveraging advanced generative AI, Discern addresses critical security queries and provides improvement roadmaps. For instance, it can answer questions like, "Why is my Crowdstrike score only 30%, and how can I improve it to 95%?"
- Framework Mapping: Discern dynamically maps security controls to established frameworks (e.g., MITRE, CIS, NIST) for compliance, showcasing security program progress and ROI on investments.
- Health Checks: Proactive health checks ensure control currency against recent ransomware threats, utilization of latest vendor features, and comprehensive coverage, facilitating swift deployment of configuration changes.
- Metrics and Insights: Discern offers personalized metrics, actionable insights, and configuration recommendations tailored to department and user needs, automating implementation through triggered workflows.
- Reporting Dashboards: Visualizing risk in a consumable manner, Discern's reporting dashboards highlight coverage gaps, top risks, and configuration optimization opportunities, enabling cost-saving measures.
Already partnering with Fortune 500 corporations and top-tier cybersecurity firms, Discern's real-time cybersecurity health assessments, dynamic risk dashboards, and progress mapping empower CISOs to:
- Maximize efficacy of security tools and investments.
- Automate policy management and orchestration.
- Focus on high-risk entities to reduce incidents.
- Showcase real progress using relevant metrics and benchmarks.
