Salt Typhoon exploited known vulnerabilities like CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2024-21887 across 80+ countries. These weren't zero-days—they were publicly documented CVEs with available information about fixes.
Here's the CISO opportunity: What if your organization could fix these vulnerabilities in minutes instead of months?
This is exactly what Expert Fix Automation (EFA) delivers. While traditional approaches left organizations vulnerable during lengthy remediation cycles, EFA automatically generates and implements security fixes that meet your coding standards.
How Expert Fix Automation Transforms CISO Operations
Remediate Code in Minutes, Not Months
Where Salt Typhoon found weeks-long vulnerability windows, EFA creates hour-long fix cycles.
Your security posture improves dramatically when fixes deploy automatically instead of waiting in development backlogs.
Save Valuable Developer Time
Your developers stay focused on building features that drive revenue while EFA handles security remediation. This means faster time-to-market for secure applications and higher developer productivity.
Free Your AppSec Team for Strategic Work
Instead of managing vulnerability backlogs and chasing developers for fixes, your application security team focuses on architecture, threat modeling, and strategic security initiatives.
The CISO's Competitive Advantage: Automated Fix Generation
EFA's automated fix generation follows your coding standards automatically. When a vulnerability is discovered:
This transforms vulnerability management from a reactive cost center into a proactive competitive advantage.
Building Resilience Against Future Salt Typhoons
The next nation-state campaign is already in development. The question isn't whether similar attacks will happen—it's whether your organization will be ready.
Speed as a Security Strategy
When you can fix vulnerabilities in minutes instead of months, you eliminate the attack windows that made Salt Typhoon successful. Speed becomes your strongest defense.
Scalable Security Operations
EFA scales with your development velocity. As your organization builds more applications faster, your security capabilities grow proportionally.
Risk Reduction at Scale
Every automated fix reduces your attack surface immediately. Multiply this across thousands of vulnerabilities, and you've fundamentally changed your risk profile.
The CISO's Path to Security Excellence
Leading CISOs are using Salt Typhoon as a catalyst for security transformation:
Phase 1: Assess Current Remediation Speed
Measure your mean time to fix critical vulnerabilities. If it's measured in weeks or months, you have tremendous improvement opportunity.
Phase 2: Implement Expert Fix Automation
Deploy EFA for your most common vulnerability types. Start seeing fixes in minutes instead of months.
Phase 3: Scale Across All Applications
Expand automated remediation to your entire application portfolio. Watch your security posture improve dramatically.
Frequently Asked Questions for CISOs
Q: How does Expert Fix Automation help prevent Salt Typhoon-style attacks?
A: EFA eliminates the vulnerability windows that attackers exploit. When fixes deploy in minutes instead of months, patient adversaries lose their primary advantage.
Q: What's the ROI for CISOs investing in automated remediation?
A: Developer time savings, faster secure application delivery, and reduced breach risk. Most organizations see positive ROI within the first quarter. Check out our ROI calculator to estimate your savings.
Q: How do I justify EFA investment to the board?
A: Point to Salt Typhoon's impact across 80+ countries, then demonstrate how EFA would have closed those vulnerability windows in minutes instead of months.
Q: What should CISOs prioritize first with automation?
A: Start with your most frequent vulnerability types. EFA's proven fixes library covers thousands of real-world scenarios.
Q: How do I measure success with Expert Fix Automation?
A: Track mean time to remediation and developer productivity. Both metrics improve dramatically with automated fixes.
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