Attack surfaces are growing faster than security teams can keep up. To stay ahead, you need to know what's exposed and where attackers are most likely to strike. With cloud migration dramatically increasing the number of internal and external targets, prioritizing threats and managing your attack surface from an attacker's perspective has never been more important. Let's look … [Read more...] about How to Manage Your Attack Surface?
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These 6 Questions Will Help You Choose the Best Attack Surface Management Platform
Jul 17, 2023The Hacker NewsAttack Surface Management The hype around different security categories can make it difficult to discern features and capabilities from bias when researching new platforms. You want to advance your security measures, but what steps actually make sense for your business? For anyone ready to find an attack surface management (ASM) vendor, review … [Read more...] about These 6 Questions Will Help You Choose the Best Attack Surface Management Platform
How Attack Surface Management Prioritizes Vulnerability Remediation
As the business environment becomes increasingly connected, organizations' attack surfaces continue to expand, making it challenging to map and secure both known and unknown assets. In particular, unknown assets present security challenges related to shadow IT, misconfigurations, ineffective scan coverage, among others. Given attack surface sprawl and evolving threats, many … [Read more...] about How Attack Surface Management Prioritizes Vulnerability Remediation
Mastering API Security: Understanding Your True Attack Surface
Jun 13, 2023The Hacker NewsAPI Security / Webinar Believe it or not, your attack surface is expanding faster than you realize. How? APIs, of course! More formally known as application programming interfaces, API calls are growing twice as fast as HTML traffic, making APIs an ideal candidate for new security solutions aimed at protecting customer data, according to … [Read more...] about Mastering API Security: Understanding Your True Attack Surface
Why Now? The Rise of Attack Surface Management
Jun 12, 2023The Hacker NewsAttack Surface Management The term "attack surface management" (ASM) went from unknown to ubiquitous in the cybersecurity space over the past few years. Gartner and Forrester have both highlighted the importance of ASM recently, multiple solution providers have emerged in the space, and investment and acquisition activity have seen an uptick. Many … [Read more...] about Why Now? The Rise of Attack Surface Management
How to Reduce Exposure on the Manufacturing Attack Surface
Digitalization initiatives are connecting once-isolated Operational Technology (OT) environments with their Information Technology (IT) counterparts. This digital transformation of the factory floor has accelerated the connection of machinery to digital systems and data. Computer systems for managing and monitoring digital systems and data have been added to the hardware and … [Read more...] about How to Reduce Exposure on the Manufacturing Attack Surface
How Attack Surface Management Supports Continuous Threat Exposure Management
May 11, 2023The Hacker News According to Forrester, External Attack Surface Management (EASM) emerged as a market category in 2021 and gained popularity in 2022. In a different report, Gartner concluded that vulnerability management vendors are expanding their offerings to include Attack Surface Management (ASM) for a suite of comprehensive offensive security … [Read more...] about How Attack Surface Management Supports Continuous Threat Exposure Management
Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management with Cisco Secure Cloud Insights: Beyond CSPM
In today’s digital-first world having enterprise grade information, services, and workloads in the cloud is becoming increasingly important for success. Nonetheless the lack of asset visibility that haunted private networks has not disappeared in the cloud era; it has been transferred, or some may say even aggravated. In its Hype Cycle for Security Operations, Gartner has … [Read more...] about Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management with Cisco Secure Cloud Insights: Beyond CSPM
New Local Attack Vector Expands the Attack Surface of Log4j Vulnerability
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an entirely new attack vector that enables adversaries to exploit the Log4Shell vulnerability on servers locally by using a JavaScript WebSocket connection. "This newly-discovered attack vector means that anyone with a vulnerable Log4j version on their machine or local private network can browse a website and potentially trigger the … [Read more...] about New Local Attack Vector Expands the Attack Surface of Log4j Vulnerability
One-Click Attack Surface in Linux Desktop Environments
The Advanced Research Team at CrowdStrike Intelligence discovered multiple vulnerabilities affecting libvncclient. In some widely used desktop environments, such as GNOME, these vulnerabilities can be triggered in a one-click fashion. Introduction Client-side exploitation has become a crucial component of many attackers’ toolkits. In the desktop space, exploiting browsers is … [Read more...] about One-Click Attack Surface in Linux Desktop Environments