Concern is growing over the rise in software supply chain attacks and the need to develop better risk management policies. The software attack surface continues to grow, which in turn, increases risk. Recent high-profile attacks impacting companies including SolarWinds and Kaseya illustrate how vulnerable the software supply chain is today.

Organizations with legacy environments should be focused on reducing technical debt, which can expose businesses to exploits. In a recent article published by Forbes, Rezilion Co-Founder and CEO, Liran Tancman, discusses how restructuring organizations to better integrate tools such as SBOMs (Software Bills of Material) is a necessary step for the future. The use of such assets allows companies to reduce their workload by identifying the what matters in their software and eliminate unnecessary code.

Due to current challenges with vulnerability management today, it should come as no surprise that enterprises are regularly hit with cyber breaches related to software bugs. In fact, one Ponemon study finds 60% of breaches are the result of unpatched vulnerabilities. The real wonder is that it doesn’t happen more often. When it comes to managing the software flaws that bad actors can exploit to launch attacks, there is clearly room for improvement.

As we noted in the last post, the current approach to vulnerability management is simply not working. There needs to be a new and better way to find and fix vulnerabilities—one that doesn’t create backlogs, create friction on development teams and run up costs.

Anyone who thinks the status quo for vulnerability management is fine is not paying attention. Organizations are getting hit with significant breaches, hacks, ransomware and other attacks. And in many cases, software vulnerabilities are to blame for these incidents. Meanwhile, security teams are overwhelmed with the effort of patching software bugs, and the backlog for patching continues to grow longer.

Managing vulnerabilities is a time consuming process that eats away at developers resources. Often, this leads to security and development teams butting heads as they each try to meet their needs (usually at the expense of the other). What’s needed is a way of ensuring that both the product reaches the customer on schedule, while also not opening an organization up to exploit because of software flaws.

We live in a software-driven world that requires organizations to develop and release software products more frequently. This pace of software development is leading to the meteoric growth of the software attack surface. As the modern software attack surface grows, so do the challenges of managing such a dynamic attack surface. Rezilion, in partnership with Frost & Sullivan, dive into this industry issue and companies can address it.

Managing vulnerabilities is a time consuming process that eats away at both developers and security resources. Often, this leads to tension between security and development teams as they each try to meet their needs (usually at the expense of the other). What’s needed is a way of ensuring that both the product reaches the customer on schedule while also not sacrificing security. In a new article in Dark Reading, Rezilion co-founder and CEO Liran Tancman, points to the solution.

This is the fourth installment in a series about making DevSecOps work in your organization. The fourth and final pillar of DevSecOps—following discovery, validation and prioritization—is remediation. This is the step in the vulnerability management process that all the others lead to, and without it, there is essentially no point to going through any of the other phases. Not all remediation practices are equal, however.