What is Attack Surface Management?
Cyber Attack Surface Management Services
Given the fact that most organisations are moving to the cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications are becoming increasingly important, the cyber attack surface of businesses is also getting bigger. With remote work and global digitalisation, attacks are also becoming smarter and more complex, making it challenging for most businesses to identify and prevent them.
In this digital world, almost any asset the company holds now can become an appealing target and a weak spot for cybercriminals; it is now more important than ever for companies to improve attack surface visibility across assets. This includes every asset, known or unknown, located in the cloud, digital or physical.
Attack surface management, or ASM for short, refers to the continuous discovery, inventory, classification and monitoring of an organisation's tech infrastructure. While some confuse this term with asset discovery and management, ASM approaches these and other security tasks from a hacker's perspective. This guarantees that the security measures can cover all attacker-exposed IT assets accessible from within or outside an organisation, including assets available on the internet and assets in suppliers' infrastructures.