How Much Time Are Security Teams Wasting Reconciling Data Across Tools? 

Security teams today are managing growing volumes of cybersecurity data across increasingly complex environments. This blog explores the hidden operational cost of disconnected tools, manual data reconciliation, and fragmented reporting, and how Teneo’s Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM), powered by ThreatAware, helps organizations create a more unified and trusted view across their security estate. 

Most organizations are not short of security tools. The challenge is that the data from those tools rarely aligns. 

Endpoint platforms, vulnerability tools, identity systems, cloud security solutions, and SIEMs all provide valuable insight into the environment, but each platform presents its own view of assets, controls, and coverage. As environments become larger and more distributed, security teams often find themselves manually comparing reports, validating asset records, and trying to reconcile conflicting information across multiple systems. 

What should be a straightforward operational task quickly becomes time-consuming and difficult to manage. 

When Visibility Creates Operational Complexity 

As organizations continue to expand their security stack, operational overhead increases alongside it. 

Security teams can spend significant amounts of time validating inventories, checking control coverage, preparing audit reports, and investigating discrepancies between platforms. In many cases, the issue is not the quality of the tools themselves, but the fact that the information remains fragmented across the environment. 

This challenge was evident in our work with Bird & Bird, a Teneo and ThreatAware customer. The global law firm was spending considerable time reconciling conflicting asset information across multiple security and IT systems. 

The team were exporting data and comparing spreadsheets from tools including SCCM, Intune, Tenable, Cortex and ServiceNow, only to end up with conflicting answers. By implementing ThreatAware and integrating data from 13 existing systems, Bird & Bird established a single source of truth for security-relevant asset data, reducing manual effort and providing a more accurate view of assets and security controls across the organisation. 

Why CAASM Matters 

Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) helps organizations create a more accurate and unified view across their IT and security environment. 

Rather than replacing existing security tools, CAASM solutions integrate with them to bring together asset, control, and security coverage data into a single view. This helps organizations improve reporting accuracy, validate controls, reduce operational overhead, and strengthen cyber hygiene without adding further complexity. 

Most importantly, it helps security teams spend less time reconciling data and more time reducing risk. 

How Teneo’s CAASM Solution Helps Reduce Operational Overhead 

Teneo’s Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) solution, powered by ThreatAware, helps organizations create a trusted view across their security and IT environment. 

By integrating with existing platforms, the solution provides real-time visibility into devices, controls, and security coverage across the estate. ThreatAware’s data normalization and timeline matching capabilities help remove duplicate records, improve confidence in reporting, and reduce the manual effort associated with fragmented data. 

ThreatAware customer AO World faced a similar challenge, with teams pulling data from multiple systems and spending significant time manually building reports to understand security coverage across the estate. By implementing ThreatAware, AO World established a single, trusted view across more than 3,000 devices, replacing hours of manual reporting with unified visibility and enabling teams to identify and remediate coverage gaps more effectively. 

The result is greater operational efficiency, improved visibility, and faster decision-making across both IT and security teams. 

Security Teams Should Not Be Managing Cybersecurity Through Spreadsheets 

Many organizations still rely on disconnected tools and manual processes to answer some of the most important security questions they face. 

Whether it is a global law firm such as Bird & Bird seeking greater confidence in security reporting or an e-commerce leader such as AO World looking to improve operational efficiency, the challenge is often the same: security teams need a trusted, unified view of their environment to make informed decisions quickly. 

Creating a trusted and unified view across the environment is no longer just a reporting improvement. It has become a critical part of maintaining effective cybersecurity operations at scale and ensuring security teams spend their time reducing risk rather than reconciling data. 

If you would like to understand how Teneo’s CAASM solution, powered by ThreatAware, can help reduce operational overhead and improve visibility across your environment, book a quick demo today.