In 1995, Gartner published its first Hype Cycle. Now, nearly thirty years later, Gartner continues to publish Hype Cycle diagrams and accompanying reports to illustrate the maturity of technologies across industries. According to Gartner, Hype Cycle reports help you “compare your understanding of a technology’s business value with the objectivity of experienced IT analysts.”
For the second year in a row, Telos® is proud to be recognized in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Cyber-Risk Management. Telos is listed in the “Continuous Controls Monitoring” category or CCM.
Organizations are facing an increasing number of ongoing security and compliance requirements. Solutions that include continuous controls monitoring are designed to meet this challenge by reducing the manual effort involved with ongoing compliance.
In the Hype Cycle diagram above, CCM is placed in a position illustrating that it is an emerging innovation. The report states that the benefit rating of CCM—that is, the average, cross-industry benefit—is “high.” According to Gartner, in a document titled “Understanding Gartner’s Hype Cycles,” published earlier this year, this means an innovation “enables new ways of performing horizontal or vertical processes that will result in significantly increased revenue or cost savings for an organization.”
The Xacta® IT and cyber risk management platform is designed to help organizations meet the complex challenges of managing IT and cyber risk with intelligent workflow, automated control selection and assessment, and continuous compliance monitoring. Organizations use Xacta to establish a centralized cyber risk management platform for enterprise security intelligence and streamline the compliance process for the leading government and industry standards and frameworks.
Once compliance is achieved, organizations can leverage Xacta’s continuous controls monitoring features on an ongoing basis to track the security state of a wide range of information systems and maintain the correct security posture for systems over time. Xacta streamlines ongoing controls monitoring by leveraging features such as Predictive Mapping, which maps the content from various vulnerability schemes to the relevant controls in a relationship model, and Controls Crosswalk, which allows administrators to view and manage the default mappings between multiple regulations. Such mappings are used to instantly assign validation results from scanners to mapped controls for faster compliance.
In comparison to manual processes (documents, spreadsheets, and paper reports) that can get lost in email, continuous controls monitoring allows teams to accomplish these activities more efficiently.
According to Gartner, “the tools also provide constant monitoring of security controls, allowing faster detection of potential threats and minimizing breaches and regulatory noncompliance, which prevents significant financial and reputational damage. They not only enhance a company’s cybersecurity posture but also build a more secure, successful business.”
Achieving compliance with security standards and frameworks is only the first step toward a strong security posture; in the long term, continuous controls monitoring is key to achieving this goal.
Certainly, organizations are facing an increased amount of ongoing compliance-related tasks. However, many such tasks can be automated with a platform such as Xacta, which is purpose-built to serve as the centralized cyber risk management platform for security intelligence across the enterprise.
Proactive risk and compliance teams recognize that continuous compliance can provide a distinct advantage when it comes to identifying areas for cyber risk. Xacta can help organizations streamline that process and, over time, take control of their IT security posture.
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Gartner Reports: Gartner, Hype Cycle for Cyber-Risk Management, 2024, Michael Kranawetter, Jie Zhang, Pedro Pablo Perea de Duenas, July 22, 2024
Gartner, Understanding Gartner’s Hype Cycles, 14 May 2024, By Philip Dawson Et Al.
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