When it comes to dealing with potential security threats, companies need to empower their security teams to act quickly and efficiently. Threat actors can strike at any time, so it’s critical to be proactive instead of reactive and avoid dealing with manual processes and a lack of visibility into the attack surface that can slow down security operations.
In a recent cybersecurity benchmarking study, 36% of CIOs with cybersecurity responsibility said that the shortage of skilled workers is their biggest challenge.1 The combination of a talent gap and over-taxed security operations teams can increase the risk of a data breach. In fact, the average time to detect and respond to cyberattacks grew to 280 days in 2021.2
By gaining increased visibility, the tools to automate processes, and the ability to swiftly prioritize and remediate unpatched vulnerabilities and threats, Skybox Security Posture Management Platform customers are able to realize significant positive impacts from an operational perspective, increasing efficiencies that can save $393,000 over three years. This was validated in a recent Total Economic Impact (TEI) study Skybox Security commissioned with Forrester Consulting.3
For the study, Forrester interviewed four Skybox customers, aggregating their experiences and results into a single composite organization that is a global conglomerate with more than $2 billion in revenue and 30,000 assets internally across its 15,000-employee base.
Interviewed companies saw long-term benefits from increased adoption of Skybox’s capabilities to drive incremental operational efficiencies as the holistic security operations team improves processes across their organization’s end-to-end security stack. The improved capabilities provided by Skybox will continue to drive incremental value internally.
The policy team is slowly starting to look within the tool. That’s one of the key things that [the prior solution] was never able to be adopted by people using the tool. I’m getting two to three requests a day for access into [the] Skybox system.”
Information security manager
Financial services organization
Skybox improves security operations productivity by 20%
After deploying the Skybox Security Posture Management Platform, companies interviewed see a significant improvement in security operations teams’ productivity throughout their investment. Security analysts see a 15% improvement in their overall productivity in the first year, 17.5% improvement in year two, and up to 20% by year three based on increased proficiency in the Skybox platform. Users of the platform improve their proficiency as they became more familiar with Skybox’s features, creating incremental efficiency improvements over time.
The productivity gains were an effect of having better information. There is an indirect derivative of the mean time to detect and the mean time to remediate having improved significantly, and we have the risk better managed.”
Director of cybersecurity
Manufacturing organization
Smart automation increased efficiencies by decreasing the need for manual cybersecurity processes
Security teams no longer need to conduct time-consuming and labor-intensive tasks for vulnerability scanning and network management.
Automation is a great equalizer, enabling cybersecurity teams to get much more done with far less effort and far fewer errors. It unburdens overworked staff, reduces burnout, and improves talent acquisition and retention. It lets organizations make optimal use of limited resources when faced with constrained budgets.
With Skybox, streamlined automation is applied to every stage of cybersecurity, from visualizing the attack surface to identifying and remediating vulnerabilities, ensuring policy compliance, and managing changes. The resulting efficiencies help security teams keep up with the changing threat landscape and support digital transformation initiatives. More importantly, they can get an accurate, holistic, continuously updated picture of the attack surface and associated vulnerabilities with virtually no effort.
Skybox provides a prioritized list of vulnerabilities to remediate leading to the reduction [of] time to do remedial work on the IT state primarily. So, we went from months to weeks to days depending on the criticality of the exposure. The productivity gains were an effect of having better information. There is an indirect derivative of the mean time to detect and the meantime to remediate having improved significantly and we have the risk better managed.”
Director of cybersecurity
Manufacturing organization
The Skybox platform automates security processes, which decreases companies’ need for manual intervention. In addition, Skybox’s straightforward interface and available data enable companies to optimize firewalls and internal policies much faster than with their legacy systems.
Because of the dramatic impact of reduced manual work and increased efficiencies that Skybox delivers for security teams, companies can also redeploy internal cyber security analysts on higher-value tasks.
“Skybox is cumulative so I don’t have to re-analyze everything [each year]. It will do that analysis for me and then I can go straight to a table and work on that table. It’s got a nice human interface and it’s fast.”
Cybersecurity specialist
IT software & services company
Talk to an expert to learn how Skybox can help you achieve security operations efficiencies and cost savings:
- Cybersecurity Solutions for a Riskier World, Thoughtlab, May 2022
- 2021 Cost of a Data Breach Report, IBM, July 2021
- The Total Economic Impact™ of Skybox Security Posture Management Platform, a commissioned study by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Skybox Security, September 2022
