Security News > 2022 > June > Taming the Digital Asset Tsunami
A single forgotten, abandoned or unknown digital asset is a cybersecurity timebomb.
Effective digital asset management - including IP address visibility - is your foundation to thwart an attacker's path of least resistance into your network.
A poorly managed digital asset is a ticking time bomb.
The result can be a graveyard of digital asset soft spots that too often become entry points for adversaries, such as forgotten or poorly managed DevOps or SecOps tools, cloud products and device web interfaces.
Dead and forgotten domains - a different type of digital asset - often fall prey to what is known as a dangling DNS record, where an adversary can take over a forgotten subdomain by reregistering it.
To protect the critical data, thwart malware infection and prevent breaches, part of the answer is effective digital asset management and IP address visibility.