Security News > 2022 > July > 4 Steps the Financial Industry Can Take to Cope With Their Growing Attack Surface

The key takeaway is that digital growth in the financial industry is not stopping; therefore, cybersecurity teams will need ways to gain accurate, real-time visibility into their attack surface.

Breach and attack simulation, or BAS, helps identify vulnerabilities by simulating the potential attack paths that a malicious actor might use.

With so many real threats to deal with, security teams in the financial industry need to be able to focus on the exploitable vulnerabilities that can potentially cause the most business impact.

How the Financial Industry is Using ASV. It goes without saying that banks, credit unions, and insurance companies need a high level of security to protect their customers' data.

Safely exploiting the mapped assets with the latest attack techniques, they're uncovering complete attack vectors - both internal and external.

By leveraging attack path emulation, they can pinpoint the business impact of each security gap and assign importance to the root cause of each verified attack vector.

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