SecurityGate.io partners with Network Perception on risk management

SecurityGate.io, a risk management acceleration platform for industrial companies, has announced a strategic alliance partnership with Network Perception, a specialist in network access risk verification and visualisation.

The collaboration is aimed at helping others increase security, remediate risk, and reduce the effort it takes to be compliant to standards, without duplicating risk management efforts.

While standards and frameworks are often a first step in securing an organisation, being compliant doesn’t mean the organisation is more secure from threats. Improving OT or IT security postures while maintaining compliance to a regulatory standard or framework both follow similar procedures which overlap in many areas. In both cases, security and risk management teams use those frameworks or standards to assess the organisation’s overall cyber security posture and then implement some type of remediation or improvement process to close the gaps.

“There are legal requirements with penalties associated with maintaining compliance. Because of this, many companies with limited resources are forced to prioritise compliance efforts over security posture. So, it’s not until after compliance efforts are satisfied that security posture improvement efforts begin separately,” said Ted Gutierrez (pictured), CEO, SecurityGate.io. “This partnership between SecurityGate.io and Network Perception will allow us to provide organisations with the ability to initiate security, risk, and compliance efforts both simultaneously and seamlessly.”

Network Perception provides a platform for mapping and analysing the network to determine connectivity and identifying any deviation from security policies, standards, and best practices and continuous network protection through automated configuration monitoring and notification of potential risks.

The Network Perception platform enables administrators to understand if the network is secure or not, if devices are up to compliance regulations, and if a configuration change requires immediate attention. The company said its platform provides these capabilities in a way that reduces or even eliminates manual processes so teams can do the job faster with limited resources.

The SecurityGate.io platform provides SaaS workflows and automation for running framework-based assessments and remediation efforts covering people, processes, and technology and for blending real-time security system data with historical risk and compliance assessment results to show where top cybersecurity risks are today and help forecast where they will be tomorrow.

"We are excited to work with the team at SecurityGate.io and offer comprehensive solutions to the industry,” said Robin Berthier, CEO and co-founder of Network Perception. “The automation of compliance and security assessment is a top priority to better protect mission-critical assets."

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