Known Assets
Inventoried and managed assets such as your corporate website and servers and the dependencies running on them. Improve protection for critical digital assets and data with monitoring and automation. Mitigate exposures faster and with more confidence with automation and prioritization.
Unknown Assets
Infrastructure stood up outside the purview of your security team, such as forgotten websites (Shadow IT or Orphaned IT). Discover and mapping for complete, on-demand visibility across the external attack surface. Continuous detection and attribution to remove risk and threats to your external attack surface.
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. Adversary-threat intelligence and Tracking provide scalable, durable, adaptive threat defense. Map and Monitor third-party risks and eliminate n-th degree risk to secure digital supply chain.
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.
What is Attack Surface Management?
It's a semi-new term in the industry, and many CISO’s and IT Leaders are asking the question.
For organizations, attack surface management means proactively addressing the cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and exposures that adversaries can use to gain unauthorized access to their systems and attack their brand and customers.
Attack surface management is a predominant concern for security teams and their senior leadership, who must have a comprehensive view of their overall digital exposures and deep insight into threats targeting them to make strategic decisions safely and effectively.
Attack surfaces are an organization's entire digital presence, which can be massive and encompass hundreds of thousands of assets and millions of signals across the internet, cloud, and mobile app ecosystem. Today's attack surfaces are dynamic and global in scale—COVID-19 accelerated the decentralized work environment, cloud workloads have become critical to modern IT, and SaaS platforms play an increasing role in the enterprise. With each organization's security perimeter bleeding more and more into the internet, defending the extended enterprise is a global-scale challenge.
Five Security Intelligence Must-Haves For Next-Gen Attack Surface Management
Today's global internet attack surface has transformed dramatically into a dynamic, all-encompassing, and completely entwined ecosystem. Learn the importance of modern, dynamic security intelligence focused on digital connections with five critical elements all security teams must have to stay ahead of their adversaries.
Discover Unknowns
Attack Surface Management must extend security teams and programs outside the firewall anywhere on earth, including on-premise, cloud, SaaS, IaaS, and XaaS, to address all threats and exposures associated with their digital presence. However, extending security across the modern enterprise attack surface isn't possible without an accurate, continuously updated inventory of all an organization's digital assets—known, unknown, and rogue.
Then, by applying tailored Security Intelligence, security teams can pinpoint how and where you are exposed. Security teams going toe-to-toe with a nearly infinite threat landscape needs relevant context and insights by automating data assembly from IPs, domains, services, ports, hashes, components, and code across the enterprise and third parties.
Investigate Threats
Security teams need the ability to hunt across their extended enterprise, including vendors, partners, and any internet asset. When an alert happens, the clock is ticking. Attackers are evading detection, reaching deeper into your environment, and taking more ground with ransomware, denial of service, and outright data theft.
Organizations must scale and enable security operations by automating data assembly to quickly find threat actors and their tools and infrastructure. This capability relies on fortifying group intelligence and skills and enriches workflows with live intelligence fused into every corner of the SOC.
What are the Key Requirements for Attack Surface Management?
Discover Digital Assets, Always-on Inventory Monitoring
Discover and identify each part of the organization’s digital footprint (websites, IPs, domains, services, certificates, apps, and data) and across multiple environments—cloud, IT, IoT, mobile, social, brands, third-parties, and infrastructure. Everything needs to be collected, graphed, and identified to get total visibility enabling you to continuously update your asset inventory along with risks and relationships across your digital footprint.
Analyze and Prioritize Risks and Threats
Determine risks and threats with automated insights, detection, and mitigation strategies for your external attack surface: you and others, good and bad, adversaries and allies. Security leaders get a complete picture of their digital dependencies, apps, services, and third-party/supplier risk along with always-on detection that continuously tracks vulnerabilities and threats against your attack surface.
Pinpoint attacker-exposed weaknesses,
anywhere and on-demand
Begin by classifying and prioritizing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations found in the organization’s external attack surface. Mitigate vulnerabilities and exposures faster and with more confidence by scoring relevant priorities based on real-world exploitation and genuine risk severity.
Get visibility into third-party attack surfaces,
as though it was your own
Uncover relevant vulnerabilities and asset counts for critical third-parties and their attack surface in real-time. Pinpoint third-party vulnerabilities by exploring others’ attack surfaces as though it was your own and coordinate mitigation driven by insights from real-world mapping, applied threat intelligence, and validated with factful observations.
How Can RiskIQ Help Your Organization Manage Their Attack Surface?
RiskIQ can help you Discover Unknowns and Investigate Threats. Check out the capabilities of our solutions below.
| Key Capabilities | RiskIQ Illuminate | RiskIQ Digital Footprint |
|---|---|---|
| Internet Intelligence Graph | • | • |
| Personalized Attack Surface Intelligence | • | |
| Relevant Threat and Risk Indicators (Your Attack Surface) | • | • |
| Automated, Continuous Discovery — Global Attack Surface | • | • |
| Dynamic Risk and Reputation Scoring | • | |
| Curated Open Source Intelligence + RiskIQ Advanced Threat Indicators | • | |
| On-demand Deep and Dark Web | • | |
| Risk Reporting and Modeling | • | |
| Curated Global Inventory, Solution Architecture | • | |
| Automated Change Detection | • | |
| Vulnerability Management and Integration | • |
RiskIQ Illuminate® Internet Intelligence Platform
RiskIQ Illuminate is the first step in bringing together global visibility for an organization's digital attack surface in a single platform. We know our customers want to pull intelligence into the products and security stack to make those systems smarter and orchestrate a rapid, coordinated, cross-functional response.
The Illuminate platform has modules for everyone in the security team from the CISO, SecOps, CTI, Brand Intelligence, and Vulnerability Teams, enabling a unified view of internet threats that ultimately speed up decision-making and response times to reduce overall risk.
