Continuous Validation With Priorities

Let’s also talk about the continuous validation aspects and how PlexTrac really supports the notion of being able to help you close the loop on that last mile of continuous validation. If we come into our priorities, we can see that we have SNMP weaknesses and there are 14 linked findings associated with this priority. So this provides a good workflow and a place to actually start assigning issues to the people that might be responsible for fixing them. So let’s just say we’re drafting this and we want to assign it to — I’ll go ahead and assign it to myself — and we need to say, “fix this.” We now have a perspective that this finding is in process related to this priority. And from the PlexTrac perspective, this starts to help validate that.

This helps customers validate that they are closing the loop on all the elements that are getting reported in their environment. And so we can quickly come in and see that as this gets closed out, you can make comments, “fixed and validated.” And there we have the ability to actually now see in real time that these issues are starting to get closed out, that our risk is actually being continuously addressed, and that we can actually now start to show progress over time. And if we come back to the priority, as we close findings out, we’ll start to see the contextual score be reduced. This is a really important aspect of that continuous validation lifecycle, not only being able to see the progress but actually see it updated in real time. So this is another important aspect of the priorities module.