USE CASE

Ridge Security
Automated Penetration:
The Easy Button for DevSecOps

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 Automated Penetration: The Easy Button for DevSecOps
For businesses trying to find and hire cybersecurity talent, they’re most likely
encountering severe challenges. The cybersecurity talent shortage isn’t new and
has been reported for many years now as a significant concern for CISOs. In fact,
this dilemma is leading factor contributing to the dive of adopting managed security
services and growth of managed security service providers (MSSPs). And sadly, there
doesn’t appear to be improvement coming in the foreseeable future. LinkedIn recently
posted an ISG report citing that the outlook for hiring skilled cybersecurity personnel
will continue to be a challengei.
Lack of cybersecurity talent creates a dire situation for businesses, especially those
involved with developing software. Software developers are under increasing pressure
to improve the security of their code. They’re literally caught in a vice between bad
actors releasing increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks, and increasingly more
compliance requirements and penalties. In the U.S., the White House in its National
Cybersecurity Strategy made it clear that software developers are in their cross-
hairs: “The Administration will work with Congress and the private sector to develop
legislation establishing liability for software products and services…”
The future may look bleak for software developers, but there is an Easy Button to help
solve their cybersecurity talent shortages and secure their code: Implement advanced
penetration testing tools that are automated, comprehensive, easy to use, and do not
require highly trained personnel.

Fast Code Creation

Software developers use Agile methodologies like of CI/CD (Continuous Integration
/ Continuous Development) to deliver a continuous stream of innovative software to
customers with the goal of minimized Time To Value (TTV): Speeding-up the recognize
benefits of new software by customers.
DevSecOps (Development-Security-Operations) is the modern and best path forward
for software developers to create secured code that meets the goals of CI/CD.
DevSecOps is a framework the integrates software development and testing processes
that are orchestrated and automated within overall development environment. By
including security in the development and testing processes, it improves both
efficiency by building-in security into code, and assurance that the code has been
adequately tested with security weaknesses and vulnerabilities identified and
mitigated. Feature rich security testing applications like vulnerability scanners and
penetration testing tools and processes are regularly incorporated in DevSecOps to
identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities within code.

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 Current Deficiencies
Two critical limitations of traditional vulnerability scanners and in particular penetration
testing tools are that: They are complex, requiring highly experienced cybersecurity
teams to operate and analyze the results, and they are time consuming.
Thus, using traditional security tools combined with a lack of trained security teams will
impair a software company’s ability to fully implement DevSecOps and benefit from CI/
CD. Additionally, releasing insecure code may enable the software to be exploited by
a cyber-attack and expose the company to penalties.

Automated Penetration Testing To The Rescue

Automated Penetration Testing tools are fairly new and recently added to Gartner’s
2022 Security Operations Hype Cycle for Security Operations (SecOps) in the category
of “Automated Penetration Test and Red Teaming Tool”. Gartner list many advantages
of automated penetration testing and specifically lists that automated penetration
testing enables:
• Frequent and consistent testing of infrastructure and applications
• Cost reductions in SecOps
• Simplified and increased efficiency from automation
• Less reliance on humans

For CI/CD and DevSecOps, innovative automated penetration tools include capabilities
that provide many benefits for developers to secure their code and deliver it to
customers on-time. Key capabilities to look for include:
√ Automated testing processes and rapid results
√ Pre-defined test scenarios
√ Complete mapping of assets, attack surface areas, vulnerabilities, and exploits
√ Low skill requirements needed by users
√ Detailed reporting
√ Risk-based approach

Together these capabilities will empower software developers to easily test their code,
identify security gaps, associated risk, determine how to secure the code, and gain
confidence that their software is secure before it is delivered to customers. All of these
benefits are achieved without the need for highly skilled analysts and time-consuming
processes.

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 Ridge Security Delivers Automated Penetration Testing
Solutions
Ridge Security is an established leader in automated penetrations testing and Red
Teaming solutions. RidgeBot® from Ridge Security has received a 4.9 rating with 5
stars in Gartner’s Peer Review, making it a clear standout from its competitionii and
superior for DevSecOps environments.

How RidgeBot is different from the competition

Several Competitors (Traditional
RidgeBot
Processes)
Fully automated penetration testing that discovers Manual process aided by various tools
and flags validated risks for remediation by SOC to identify possible targets to test. It
Validated Risks
teams. The test does NOT require highly skilled requires highly experienced testers and
personnel. takes much longer time.
RidgeBot is a tireless software robot, it can run Too slow and expensive to repeat more
security validation tasks every month, every week than once a quarter or annually
Continuous
or every day with a historical trending report
Testing
provided. Provides a continuous peace of mind
for our customers.
Evaluate the effectiveness of your security policies Blue team works with their best efforts
Security Posture by running emulation tests that follow Mitre Att&ck to make sure the security devices
Evaluation framework are configured correctly but without
validation tests.
Prioritize those vulnerabilities that are exploited in Present all possible vulnerabilities
Vulnerability
your organization with clear evidence. It is zero- without any validation which results in
Management
false positive. high-false positive rate.

RidgeBot’s Advanced Capabilities

RidgeBot® automated pen testing finds attack vectors, verifies their effectiveness,
enumerates the data and resources that could be compromised, and provides
remediation guidance to eliminate threats. RidgeBot uses a risk approach to prioritize
vulnerabilities that have the greatest potential exploitation.
RidgeBot performs many of the same functions as red teams, but without human
errors, long lead times, and costly overhead. RidgeBot AI-powered automated pen
testing enables organizations, large and small, to have continuous protection to detect
threats, including joint and iterative attacks.
When RidgeBot discovers a new attack surface, it brings in additional real-time
information and context to generate working attack strategies. It continuously gathers
new information about attack surfaces, and performs post-exploit testing, such as
privilege escalation and lateral movement to further penetrate the system.
RidgeBot also provides a visualized process mapping of a vulnerability is discovered
and exploited; a complete Kill Chain view.

i https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cybersecurity-talent-shortage-outlook-2023--2c
ii https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/vulnerability-assessment/vendor/ridge-security

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