What is an External Attack Surface Assessment and why is it important?

Criminal hackers are trying to access your network, and they use anything they can find, from hacked passwords to unmanaged applications. Are you aware of the data leaks and passwords from your organization that are out there on the internet or dark web?

External Attack Surface Management will help you reduce your attack surface and give you peace of mind.

You'd be surprised

Many companies are surprised to discover what can be found about them from sources on the internet. Whether you are a public organization, or a business, hackers are trying to get access to your network, and they use anything they can find. Gartner estimates that less than 1% of organizations have a proper visualization of their exposed assets.

Not only hacked passwords and unmanaged or legacy applications pose a threat to your digital security. Often we find forgotten, hardcoded passwords in repositories such as Github, or sensitive information in Amazon S3 buckets. Or we notice the use of unsecured APIs or exposed databases without proper authentication.

All those exposures and sensitive information are a treasure trove for attackers seeking to find a hole in your network defense. That's why you need External Attack Surface Management.

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What is External Attack Surface Management?

External Attack Surface Management (EASM) is the process of discovering and mitigating vulnerabilities in systems that are connected to the internet. This includes assets like websites, management interfaces, IoT devices, web applications, payment gateways and cloud services. You can reduce the risk of cyber attacks by proactively identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in these external-facing systems. This will help to improve your cyber resilience.

Penetration tests and password updates are not enough to keep your organazation safe from hackers. The game has changed. That's why you should proactively scan for weaknesses, exposures and vulnerabilities on the perimeter of your organization, and beyond that.

With External Attack Service Management you can:

• Reveal hidden cybersecurity exposures outside of your organization, so you can mitigate them.
• Know your weaknesses and prioritize actually exploitable vulnerabilities.
• Raise your cyber resilience.

How we support you

Secura helps large and medium sized organizations all over Europe raise their cyber resilience. We know the importance of External Attack Surface Management, and we know how to do this.

• Highly qualified security specialists
  Secura employs highly qualified ethical hackers, forensic specialists and OSINT-specialists who are experienced in attack surface assessments. They perform thousands of security assessments each year.

• Peace of mind
  External Attack Surface management will help you reduce your attack surface. This means you can bring your security risks down to a level that delivers you peace of mind and builds trust with your stakeholders.