FIND AND COVER YOUR ASSETS WITH ATTACK SURFACE MANAGEMENT

Your attack surface is the sum of the exposed and internet-facing assets, and the associated risks a hacker can exploit to carry out a cyber-attack. Over the past decade or so, that attack surface has changed dramatically. Long gone are the days when the only things exposed to the outside world were your website and your mail server. Today, increased complexity means that many organisations often have huge attack surfaces – in fact, we believe that the attack surface has grown by around 1000% in the past 10 years.

In this whitepaper, CISO Vincent Thiele takes a look at the challenges and best practice to manage and control your attack surface.  

It's the term we use the most: Attack Surface Management. It is the foundation of your organisation’s digital infrastructure. It’s the starting point of your IT security policies, configuration database management, vulnerability mitigation, and much more. In this blog, we’ll shortly describe what drives the need for an Attack Surface Management solution, share our definition of the term attack surface, and explain how it minimises the risks to your brand.