Digital Attack Surface Management

As Transformation Initiatives Grow, So Does Your Attack Surface

Read Analysis of an Attack Surface

What's a Digital Attack Surface?

The modern digital attack surface is everything outside the firewall, a collection of far-flung, client-facing assets hackers can and will discover as they research their next threat campaigns.

90% of enterprises have cloud apps.

59% of all cloud workflows delivered as SaaS.

Cloud spend growth is 500% of IT spend.

9 Billion IOT devices in 2019.

Your attack surface includes:

The modern digital attack surface is everything outside the firewall, a collection of far-flung, client-facing assets hackers can and will discover as they research their next threat campaigns.

Known Assets

Inventoried and managed assets such as your corporate website and servers and the dependencies running on them.

Unknown Assets

(Such as Shadow IT or Orphaned IT) Infrastructure stood up outside the purview of your security team such as forgotten websites.

Rogue Assets

Malicious infrastructure spun up by threat actors such as malware or a website or mobile app impersonating your brand.

Millions of these assets appear on the internet every day and are entirely outside the scope of firewalls and endpoint protection.

A Modern Approach to Security

Today, a business’s digital attack surface extends from the internal network all the way to the farthest reaches of the internet, where these traditional approaches to security have no visibility and attackers have plenty.

This digital attack surface and the threat landscape that targets it is dynamic and changing all the time; certificates expire, frameworks need patching, shadow IT is stood up, and attacker tactics evolve.

Bringing the massive scope of an organization’s digital attack surface into focus is no easy task—most security leaders only know of a fraction of the assets that exist outside their firewall.

Learn about the Anatomy of an Attack Surface

Manage Your Digital Attack Surface Today

When organizations manage their entire digital attack surface, they understand what they look like from the outside-in. This way, they can begin developing a strategy that allows them to discover everything associated with their organization on the internet, both legitimate and malicious, and shrink its digital attack surface down to size.

Five Ways Hackers are Targeting Organizations

Analysis of an Attack Surface

The boom in internet-exposed assets from a decade of digital transformation, and accelerated by a seismic shift to a remote workforce in response to COVID-19, can make protecting your enterprise's digital attack surface feel overwhelming. Today, organizations are responsible for defending not only their internal network but also their digital presence across the internet and the cloud.

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