According to Gidi Cohen, the firm's CEO, the update to Skybox View 5.0 demonstrates his firm's growing focus on integrating the business processes of security teams and IT operations to improve the overall security profile of a business.
"Managing change in the IT environment is now a major issue as far as IT security professionals are concerned" he told Infosecurity, adding that, by supporting a high degree of automation, Skybox View has become a very cost-effective offering.
According to Cohen, managing IT security systems in today's major organisations is now a full-time job and, because of this, IT security managers and their teams need to take a flexible approach to managing changes in their systems. Against this backdrop, he says, IT managers need to adopt a risk analysis and risk modelling approach to developing their IT security systems.
"This approach really does work. We are seeing a number of enterprises adopting risk modelling and attack simulations when planning their IT security systems and deployments", he said.
Cohen says that a manual approach to updating security technology in a major enterprise creates its own risks, as the IT team becomes distracted by stocktaking on networks, diverting resources away from strategic security tasks.
The solution, says Skybox's CEO, is to move over to automated risk modelling tools that can provide a complete and accurate picture of the organisation' network, making it possible to simulate attack scenarios and compare possible responses.