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When we talk about operational resilience, visibility isn’t just part of the puzzle, it’s the foundation. In our latest webinar, Unlocking Visibility: Where to Start with Enhancing Your Operational Resilience, we teamed up with Jason Wilkes, Technical Lead at Quod Orbis, to explore why organisations need to rethink the traditional path to cyber maturity.
If you missed the session or want to share it with your team, you can watch the recording below.
Now, let’s take a look at the key takeaways.
Visibility Before Maturity.
Too often, organisations assume they must reach a high level of cyber maturity before they can act decisively on resilience. Jason challenged that mindset.
His view? You don’t have to be mature to make mature decisions. Real-time visibility gives you the clarity to act now, long before spreadsheets or annual audits catch up.
The Visibility Challenge.
Jason began with a reality check: many businesses are still relying on outdated methods like quarterly assessments, static reports, or manual spreadsheets to manage controls. The result? A false sense of security and slower responses to risk.
CCM (Continuous Controls Monitoring) changes that. It shifts organisations away from lagging indicators and into real-time insight, offering immediate awareness of where controls are failing and why.
From Spreadsheets to Strategic Insights.
One of the biggest takeaways was how CCM allows teams to move beyond the limitations of Excel. By automatically ingesting data from various security tools and systems, CCM builds a living view of your controls, from the top-level compliance trends down to individual control failures.
Jason highlighted examples like:
- Offboarding controls, where inactive user accounts remain live due to manual gaps
- Asset coverage controls, identifying devices without endpoint protection that traditional dashboards miss
- Control degradation tracking, showing how performance shifts over time and where to focus efforts
The power isn’t just in collecting the data. It’s in connecting it to real-world outcomes, faster remediation, tighter audit trails, and a sharper risk lens.
Why This Matters Now.
Jason made it clear: visibility isn’t a luxury reserved for fully mature environments. In fact, CCM is a catalyst for maturing, not the other way around.
You can start small, focusing on key frameworks, critical assets, or even a single risk area, and expand from there.
The sooner you start measuring what matters, the sooner you can improve it.
Demo Highlights.
The live walkthrough of Quod Orbis’s CCM platform brought everything to life. Attendees saw:
- Real-time control dashboards
- Risk-driven prioritisation tools
- Flexibility across multiple frameworks (PCI, NIST, DORA, and even ransomware-focused views)
- Examples of how data correlations—like phishing simulation failures tied to overdue training—drive smarter action
What’s Next.
If your team is stuck in reactive cycles, CCM offers a way out. It gives you the evidence to act faster, the tools to track progress, and the insight to drive long-term resilience. If you would like more information or have any questions, please get in touch with the team.