Is your CSPM prioritization strategy missing a key metric?

When working with security alerts, teams often focus only on alert severity, but there's another dimension that often gets overlooked: "Remediation Complexity" (RC).

  • Severity tells you what's critical.
  • RC tells you what's actionable.

Understanding both is the difference between firefighting alerts and building a truly efficient security posture.

Today, we would like to introduce you to a deep dive into understanding remediation complexity, as given by one of Maestro key security expert – Anna Shcherbak.

The insights go as two-part series on Anna's Medium blog:

  1. Introducing Remediation Complexity.
    Why this concept is essential for cutting through alert fatigue.
  2. The Framework Behind Remediation Complexity
    A practical "how-to" guide, with the evidence behind our 5-level RC scale and principles for assigning complexity.

This framework isn't just theory. This has been built it into the Syndicate Rule Engine that is used as one of the significant parts of Maestro security offerings, and is helping security teams tackle this exact challenge in real-world environments.

Investigate Anna's blog and subscribe for more useful insights on Cloud Security!

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