![]() This is valuable for incident response and critical patching for a new zero-day under active exploitation. Auditing your tech stack as part of the effort to modernize it affords the opportunity to create and/or update a “single source of truth” for your technology assets. Shadow IT presents a number of threats – you can’t protect what you don’t know you have, and you can’t update technology you don’t even know is in your infrastructure. Unifying and cataloging your technology infrastructureĪs mentioned above, we’ve written previously about the important of technology asset management. Updating your tech stack can help free up that time and allow your team to focus on process improvements and security enhancements. A 2018 study from Stripe found that engineers dedicate an average of 33% of their time addressing tech debt. While there is an inherent cost in updating code or replacing and learning new tools or systems, there are long-term enhancements to efficiency and security. A measured approach to modernizing your tech stack offers companies the opportunity to “push the reset button” – to some degree – on this tech debt. The number grew to 40% for large enterprises. ![]() A 2021 study from Outsystems found that businesses dedicate 28% of their IT budget to addressing technical debt. If not regularly addressed, technical debt may create inefficiencies and introduce risk. Hardware and software age, quick fixes are sometimes needed, and code evolves. Being able to quickly understand the vulnerabilities impacting you and the tactics, techniques, and procedures that may be effective against your current defenses can allow you to act quickly to protect your customers, your data, and your company when a new threat arises. This includes protecting yourself against malicious actors by leveraging up-to-date software versions and current tools, enhancing your resiliency with an updated cloud-based or hybrid infrastructure, and conducting a gap analysis of your current controls against the cyber threat environment in order to fill identified gaps. The most important motivation for updating your tech stack is mitigating cybersecurity risk. To simplify how we’re looking at this, we’ll break it down into three main goals: 1) mitigating cybersecurity risk, 2) eliminating technology debt, and 3) unifying and cataloging your technology infrastructure. Your customers and your business are the crown jewels protecting them with the most up-to-date technology only makes sense. A good analogy in the physical world would be continuing to rely on hook and eye latches when we’ve advanced to magnetic locks and biometric access scanning. As software and devices age, so does the effectiveness of its security. No matter how tech savvy your end users are (or aren’t), auditing and modernizing your tech stack ensures all software and devices within your network are updated and that you have the proper tools in place to protect your business, as allowing your employees to use outdated resources leads to demonstrably increased cyber risk. In this post in recognition of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’ll take a step back and examine auditing and modernizing your tech stack. We’ve spoken previously in this blog about the importance of vulnerability management and maintaining a current and accurate asset inventory. The easiest target? A company/person that uses outdated software and technology. The millions of sites and applications in today’s digital world are open doors for bad actors, ready to pounce on the first mistake, the first misstep.
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