Traditional approaches to managing security application configurations are fundamentally reactive—teams only become aware of critical misconfigurations after they've reached production. At that point, teams scramble to assess risks, decipher the root cause, and weigh the potential disruption of remediation against the risk of leaving vulnerabilities unaddressed. Too often, this leads to accumulating technical debt or risky, rushed fixes. This reactive cycle creates noise without significantly reducing risk.

There’s a big chasm that needs bridging between those who are most concerned about detecting and remediating misconfiguration issues, and those teams who are responsible for managing security application configurations, ensuring smooth deployments and operations.

Our proactive, DevOps-based approach

We are taking a different approach to enterprise security applications. Instead of shallow monitoring, we decided to build on proven cloud infrastructure principles—deep, proactive control using DevOps methodologies. Using our core technology - deep visibility into configurations and robust enforceable change management processes - our principles were clear:

• Shifting security left - Integrate security early, in pre-production environments - to identify and fix vulnerabilities before they reach production
• Providing a structured and safe way for incidents where you need a remediation in production

Security is most effective when integrated, actionable, and preventive—not when it’s just more alerts.

Four pillars for securing the security stack

When you think of mitigating risk through safe security application management, the framework you create should check all these boxes through the processes and tools you adopt:

• Develop more safely – security starts in Dev - The best time to catch a misconfiguration is before it ever reaches production. Shift security left, through proper change management processes, test changes in preview or sandbox, deploy automatically to production; validate changes before they hit production and prevent vulnerabilities from becoming incidents.
• Collaboration is key – eliminate silos - Security, DevOps, and application owners must work together. A structured, unified process across all security apps allows for seamless collaboration, reducing friction and risk.
• Remediate instantly – click-to-fix - Security should be actionable, not just monitored. A remediation plan should be quick to launch, enabling teams to fix issues immediately instead of tracking endless alerts.
• Revert when needed – maintain control - If all else fails, secure rollback mechanisms ensure that misconfigurations can be reversed with minimal risk and downtime.

With Salto, organizations can progress along a clear maturity curve, securing their enterprise security stack in a gradual way:

Right from the start, Once connected to Salto - your environments are continuously monitored for misconfigurations. You will immediately gain the ability to revert to a safe previous configuration.

As you adopt Salto as your main change deployment platform, you will be able to use Salto for proactive remediation. Salto automatically creates precise, deployment-ready remediation packages, so teams swiftly address issues in production - review the suggested remediation and deploy it in a validated, tracked (and reversible) process.

When you're ready, Salto helps you shift security left by creating your pipeline and validating changes in pre-production - making your security proactive rather than reactive. Catch potential issues early, significantly reduce risk, and deploy to production. Try now for free or book a 1:1 session and we’ll help you shift security left for in all your security applications.