ROI of Cyber Fusion: Quantifying the Value of Threat Intelligence and Orchestration

Today’s cybersecurity landscape is an intricate challenge that highlights the opportunities within our own networks. Opportunities for improvement can be found in the areas between cloud resources, revealing ways to enhance our tools and shine light on overlooked aspects.. 

However, traditional security approaches are often siloed, leading to inefficiencies, higher costs, and increased risk—the opposite of what we need. 

The virtual Cyware Cyber Fusion Center (CFC) fixes the main problem in question: siloed resources in a world where collaboration is everything. Patterned after military and law enforcement Fusion Centers, which assemble disparate but interconnected teams under the same roof, these hubs maximize your resources by coordinating them to expand visibility, bridge gaps, improve communication, and make your security stack “sing.” 

You’ve got the basics. Cyware just puts them all together. Here’s how – and what you can gain from it. 

Risk Reduction Through Intelligent Correlation

Let’s talk about risk reduction by coordinating threat intelligence across a network’s worth of assets. Many tools give you threat intelligence, and Cyware’s Cyber Fusion Center makes it make sense. Now you can do something with it.  

Cyware’s virtual Cyber Fusion Centers help overwhelmed SOCs sift through vast amounts of data for more proactive threat hunting. Cyware CFC:

• Takes raw threat data and enriches it
• Correlates with other threats and events
• Prioritizes threats by severity so you know which are most important, where they are coming from, and which ones to tackle first.

Plus, it lets you exchange vital security data across network lines (with external partners or your supply chain, for example) so everyone benefits. Its collaboration feature facilitates real-time advisory sharing for greater inter-team visibility. Now we’re getting somewhere. 

It’s the same data you already had, only expertly coordinated to bring out the best in each asset. That’s the difference a Cyber Fusion Center can make. 

Operational Efficiency Through Increased Collaboration

SOCs have a lot on their plate, and when you factor in all the solutions they could be using, sometimes the help hurts. Thanks to cloud migration and increasing digital complexity, companies now manage no less than 76 security tools on average. When you think about the deployment, downtime, and training costs alone (much less the strain of managing that many tools day by day), the result is anything but efficient. 

Cyware recognizes that the breakdown is in the many, not the one, so its consolidated approach provides:

• Centralized dashboards for better visibility and decision-making.
• Real-time threat intelligence sharing across teams and tools.
• Centralized security functions for more streamlined threat analysis. 

All of this fosters increased collaboration between security teams and other departments (e.g., IT, risk management) for a faster, more coordinated response.

Keep in mind that efficiency isn’t just tied to a lighter load (though do SOCs need a better reason?). Operational efficiency directly impacts business outcomes, especially in the realm of critical infrastructure. In this arena, downtime—whether due to DoS attacks, unresolved exploits, or an uncoordinated threat response—could have serious implications for the grid, the water supply, or even human lives (try having downtime at a hospital). 

Cost Savings Through Orchestration

It’s expensive to do the same things over again. It’s vastly more affordable to automate them. Likewise, it’s expensive to have multiple solutions doing the same thing, overlapping, and getting in each other’s way. It’s far more affordable to invest in integration.

It’s these common-sense principles that Cyware builds upon, achieving significant cost savings through automation and integration. Oh, and you know what else is expensive? Manual coding and scripting. Cyware takes care of that, too. Get:

• Low code/no code .
• Automated workflows so you don’t waste security budget on menial tasks. This also leads directly to lower operational overhead.
• Less human error because of automated detection and response workflows (and less costly mistakes).
• Piped-in access to ISAC-delivered threat intelligence, so you don’t have to pay for an in-house threat intelligence unit.
• Fewer tools, so less wasted money (and less wasted shelf space).
• And automated real-time threat-hunting decisions (thanks to Cyware Quarterback).

These consolidations and efficiency make for a leaner, meaner security strategy. You get more, not less, but with less confusion. Streamlining security workflows also leads to faster threat finds, which translates into less money spent. 

The IBM Cost of a Data Breach report shows that breaches identified within 200 days cost significantly less than those detected later. Cyware's Cyber Fusion platform helps businesses lower breach-related costs by reducing the time to identify threats through automation and collaboration.

Cyware’s virtual Cyber Fusion Center: Simplicity, Not Silos

We are our own worst enemies when it comes to network architecture. As we struggle to balance on-premises functions with multiple cloud environments, APIs, web applications, and more, our single-point security solutions exhaust themselves in a world they weren’t meant for. 

It takes a (well-integrated) village to save organizations from the swamp of single-track complexity. The Cyware Cyber Fusion Center is the piece that brings it all together. Now you can:

• Improve operational efficiency by streamlining workflows, bringing together security tools, and centralizing dashboards. 
• Reduce risk by giving you better-correlated threat intelligence, prioritizing threats, and enriching raw data so you can use it – not lose it. 
• Save on costs by automating AI-driven threat response, integrating and leveraging external threat feeds, and saving on tools and overhead. 

The main job of any security tool today is to get rid of more threats faster. It’s as simple as that. Complexity and siloes are clogging the pipes. 

Cyware’s virtual Cyber Fusion Center removes those blockers that inhibit smooth workflows (and, therefore, fast work) and connects all detection, analysis, and response technologies. Hence, you get to value faster, finally reduce your overall risk, and get maximum ROI from your security strategy. 

Streamline your security workflows today. Download our whitepaper and learn all about Cyware’s Cyber Fusion Center. Or request a demo today.