CAASM proactively addresses the issue of asset vulnerability

A conference titled "The Emerging Need for Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM)" was organised by Dataquest and Scrut Automation, a SaaS-based GRC tool that helps companies enhance their information security posture. 

- Aanchal Ghatak

Security experts spoke at the conference about asset management, surface security, and how cybersecurity affects our daily lives. They explained how cooperation can make our society more resilient to cyberattacks.

Cyber threats continue to be a top worry for management and boards, as well as investors and other stakeholders in the organisation. The risk curve is still rising, and there are more breaches, ransomware, malware, and other threats.

Sunil Rajguru, Editor at Dataquest, delivered the opening remarks and gave an overview of the development of connectivity and networks as well as cybersecurity over time. The world has changed dramatically in a short period of time as a result of things like widespread Internet access. The Internet has transformed the whole world in just a few decades. However, as more people become connected, cyber risks and attacks also increase exponentially.

Following that, the inaugural keynote address was given by Aayush Ghosh Choudhury, Co-Founder and CEO of Scrut Automation, who explained how CAASM solutions address the issue of asset visibility. CAASM gives IT and security teams the ability to feel confident that everything in their environment is managed and secured since it provides a consolidated picture of all assets.

Aayush addressed issues such as: What should be the real solution for asset inventories? How to preserve hygiene in the system. How to go agentless, and how to guarantee value quickly.

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Next, came the industry keynote by Arumugam Palani, Principal, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), titled "Understanding the Importance of CAASM".