Top 7 Strategies for Overcoming IT Talent Shortages Learn from Cenzic's Chris Harget as he describes the top strategies for maximizing security effectiveness of current staff and resources. Specifically, you'll learn: - Symptoms you are short-handed - Key indicators for which strategy will maximize value from existing staff and resources - Creative tips for convincing your organization to make changes The current market environment makes finding, training and retaining the right IT employees challenging. Challenges or not, you can gain the skills to protect your organization from excessive security risk. This presentation is a great place to start.

1. Cenzic Live! Webinar: Top 7 Strategies For
Overcoming IT Security Talent Shortages
Chris Harget Product Marketing
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2. Agenda
 Symptoms
 Strategies
 Finding The Win
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3. Symptoms Of IT Security Talent Shortage
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4. Know The Signs
 Incomplete picture of security posture
 Backlog of untested applications
 Slow remediation when app vulnerabilities discovered
 Things done wrong/done twice
 Too many long shifts
 Open reqs, hiring freezes, “irreplaceable” departures
 No vulnerability monitoring of production apps
 Data Breeches
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5. The Need Is Significant
Source: Cenzic Application
Vulnerability Trends Report 2013
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6. Mobile App Vulnerability Types - 2012
Source: Cenzic Application
Vulnerability Trends Report 2013
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7. Benchmarks For IT Security Staffing…
…Are Really Hard To Come By.
 How many security analysts/100 apps?
 That depends on;
– Size of apps
– Depth of scan desired
– Coding practices
– Scanning frequency
– Quality of scanning tools
– Division of labor with QA/Dev/Production/GRC
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8. Know Your Specific Shortage
 Not enough bodies
 Not enough time
 Not enough skills
 Not enough tools
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9. Strategies For Overcoming IT Security Talent Shortage
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10. Bodies: Finding/Hiring/Renting
 Job titles include;
– Application Security Analyst/Architect
– Penetration Tester
– Application Security Engineer/Tester/Specialist
– Ethical Hacker
 If you can’t hire locally, consider managed services
– May be easier/faster than getting increased headcount
– Helps jump-start process
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11. Time: Prioritize, Specialize, Automate
 Prioritize
– Are you mitigating the biggest risks first?
 Specialize
– What tasks are best done by your team?
– e.g., Remediation, Management,
– What tasks can be offloaded?
– e.g., Dev trains app traversals or Managed Service runs scans
 Automate
– Leverage Enterprise-grade tools
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12. Talent/Skills: Train, Borrow, Rent
 Train
– How to scan, coding best practices, how to manage
 Borrow
– Get Developers for app training & Remediation
– Get QA for re-running scans
 Rent
– Managed Services can augment specialized tasks
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13. Tools: Quality and Quantity
 Quality
– More accurate scanners improve security and save time
– Quantified app risk scores enable optimal risk mitigation
– Enterprise dashboard shows total risk and trends
 Quantity
– Web-based app-training tool goes everywhere needed
– Having enough seats for each Analyst, Developer, QA,
GRC, and Executive leverages whole organization
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14. Top 7 Strategies
1. Hire
2. Prioritize
3. Specialize
4. Automate
5. Train
6. Borrow
7. Rent
8. Quality/Quantity
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15. Finding The Win
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16. Justifying Resources
 Non-technical people need non-technical
explanations
– Keep it simple
– Use cost-benefit for budget
– Use relative-risk for reallocating people
 Quantified risk is easier to understand
– E.g., Cenzic’s HARM™ scores
 Bonus: Watch “Top 10 Ways To Win Budget for
Application Security”
https://info.cenzic.com/webinar-security-budget.html
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17. Making the Case Simply…
 Hackers use hidden Application commands to
steal data and damage web sites.
 Gartner Group says 75% of attacks now target
the Web Application Layer
 Scanning tools and App Security experts help
efficiently find and patch these vulnerabilities.
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18. Detects Web & Mobile App Vulnerabilities
 Easy-to-use Software, DIY Cloud, or Managed Service
 Accurate behavior-based Scanning protects
– 500,000+ online applications
– $Trillion+ of commerce
 Delivers best continuous real-world Risk Management
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19. Tools
 Cenzic Enterprise
– Unified console
– Web-based app-configuring makes it easier/more
affordable for people all over your enterprise to contribute
– E.g., Developers can define traversals of their own apps
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20. Application Vulnerability Monitoring In Production
.Identify Risk
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Mitigate
Risk
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 One-click virtual patching
via tight integration with leading
Web Application Firewalls
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21. Managed Services Offerings – At-a-glance
Bronze
Silver
Industry BestPractices for
Brochureware
sites
Phishing
Light input
validation
Data Security
Session
management
OWASP
compliance
PCI compliance
Business logic
testing
Application logic
testing
Manual
penetration
testing - Confidential, All Rights Reserved.
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Cenzic, Inc.
X
Gold
Platinum
Industry BestPractices for forms
and login protected
sites
Compliance for
sites with user
data
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X
Comprehensive
scans for Mission
critical
applications
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x
X
X
X
X
X
X
x
x
X
X
x
X
X
x
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22. Compliance in a Hurry
 Who?
– A Health Maintenance Organization
 Need?
– Deep scan of a new application on a tight development
schedule to ensure compliance.
 Solution?
– Cenzic PS performed Manual Penetration testing along
with the comprehensive vulnerability scanning to provide
a very thorough scan which could suffice for any
compliance or audit need.
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23. Rapid OnBoarding of New Apps
 Who?
– A Fortune-100 Banking and Services company
 Need?
– Quickly begin scanning 110 applications
 Solution?
– Cenzic PS did Custom Onboarding Engagement,
training each app traversal so that the Bank’s IT
Security Analysts could then run scans
themselves using Cenzic Enterprise software.
 Result?
– Met their timeline needs, and kept the scanning
results in-house, per their corporate policy.
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24. Methodology Assessment With Developers
 Who?
– Global NGO with thousands of web sites
 Need?
– Methodology Assessment of their security posture, and
real-world training of their Developers
 Solution?
– Cenzic PS did a 3-day engagement with their App
Developers.
– Reviewed 10 most common vulnerabilities, found
examples in their production apps.
– Cenzic PS demonstrated on a Live Demo site how a
hacker could exploit those specific types of vulnerabilities
– Reviewed coding best practices to completely eliminate
said vulnerabilities.
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25. Vulnerability Scanning a Mobile App
 Who?
– High technology company with a mobile
application that accessed sensitive customer
data
 Need?
– Vulnerability Scan a mobile app that
can not be traditionally traversed with a spider.
 Solution?
– Cenzic Mobile Scan service performed a dynamic
analysis by placing a proxy in line to the mobile app,
which allowed technicians to replay various attacks
and coupled it with a thorough forensic analysis of
the application on the device to identify
vulnerabilities that exposed customer data.
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26. Fitting Strategy to Your Need
1. Hire
2. Prioritize
3. Specialize
4. Automate
5. Train
6. Borrow
7. Rent
8. Quality/Quantity
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27. Cenzic Can Help
 Train your people
 Give them better gear
 Have someone else carry the baton
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