External Attack Surface Monitoring

Continuous External Surface Monitoring

Identify and Eliminate Unknown Internet Vulnerabilities

An External Attack Surface, also known as a Digital Attack Surface, is the sum of an organization’s internet-facing assets and potential attack vectors.

Domain names, SSL certificates, and protocols, as well as operating systems, servers, IoT devices, and network services, are all addressed. These assets are distributed among on-premise, cloud, and third-party providers, and they give the most convenient approach to access internal networks and sensitive data.

Over the last decade, organisations have gathered an ever-expanding list of public IP addresses to facilitate communication between their internal network and the internet.

While some of these IP addresses are properly registered, the great majority are unregistered and only exist for a short period of time.

External attack surfaces today expand beyond an organization’s known network regions and frequently include assets managed by third-party contractors.

An External Attack Surface Management Solution’s Key Components

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Autonomous Exposed Assets

All exposed assets, whether known or unknown, are automatically detected across all environments and the supply chain.

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Business Context Insight

Understanding of which business unit, subsidiary, or third-party vendor each exposed asset belongs to and how it is linked to the main network.

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Automatic Asset Classification

The ability to view all exposed assets in real time by category, platform, and service type.

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Continuous External Surface Monitoring

Security insight creation and risk prioritisation based on business context, allowing you to concentrate on the most relevant tasks at hand.

Your external attack surface is ever-changing

With 80-95 percent of your IP addresses becoming ephemeral, keeping track of your internet-facing inventory is practically impossible using normal approaches. Furthermore, frequent changes in the external attack surface might be caused by a variety of factors. A simple erroneous click on the incorrect button might result in the unintentional and harmful disclosure of an asset to the internet.

What Benefits Does an External Attack Surface Management Solution Provide?

The only way to identify, administer, and monitor your perimeter-less network at scale is through external attack surface management.

With Shadow IT being so pervasive and susceptible to human error, external attack surface management is gaining prominence, with an increasing number of firms forming specialised teams for attack surface management and minimization.

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Identify Unknown Risks and Exposures in real time

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Streamline Operations

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Get More out of Your Existing Security Stack

Optimize IT & Security Costs

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