It is the practice of identifying and safeguarding an organization’s external digital assets, like websites, applications, and network infrastructure, from vulnerabilities and threats. It entails monitoring and fortifying these exposed areas to prevent unauthorized access and breaches by potential attackers.
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To defend against attackers, think like one. Attackers seek the easiest path to valuable digital assets. To counter this, organizations must continuously map their attack surface, assess risks, and prioritize remediation. Failing to do so leaves vulnerabilities that attackers exploit.
Start by identifying business and IT relationships, such as acquired companies and cloud assets. Then, discover externally-exposed IT assets and hidden connections that could be exploited by attackers.
Once you’ve identified your IT assets, it’s time to assess them for vulnerabilities. Attackers need just one weakness, like misconfigurations or network flaws. Employ diverse security tests to uncover these vulnerabilities across your external attack surface and identify potential attack paths for attackers by correlating the results.
Effective risk management starts with prioritization. It helps you focus on what matters most. Without it, the deluge of security issues and alerts can be unmanageable. Prioritization should consider the business context, tying assets, sensitive data, and processes to departments or subsidiaries. This aligns security efforts with specific organizational needs.
Operationalizing remediation is crucial for effective threat intelligence and attack surface management. Security teams can expedite the process by providing detailed evidence and actionable guidance to IT operations teams, facilitating swift risk mitigation without extensive investigations.
To stay ahead in the ever-changing IT and threat environment, it’s essential to consistently implement the prior strategies. Organizations evolve, and attackers persist, necessitating ongoing external attack surface and vulnerability management to identify, assess, and mitigate risks within the changing attack surface.
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External Attack Surface Management (EASM) is a cybersecurity practice that analyzes and secures an organization’s externally-exposed assets, such as websites, applications, servers, and network infrastructure. It’s a comprehensive approach to reduce vulnerabilities and entry points for cyber threats, mitigating the risk of data breaches and reputational harm.
Internal attack surface management concentrates on identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities within an organization’s internal network and systems, safeguarding against threats originating from within, like insider threats or internal malware. On the other hand, external attack surface management focuses on vulnerabilities in publicly accessible assets, such as websites, servers, APIs, and cloud services. Its objective is to diminish the risk of external threats, like hackers and automated bots, attempting to exploit weaknesses in the external attack surface.
Mapping the external attack surface involves the identification and mapping of an organization’s internet-exposed assets and is an integral component of an external attack surface management solution.
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