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Understanding your attack surface is key to recognizing what you are defending
2022-08-09 04:30

SMBs should focus on their attack surface and work on reducing it to the bare minimum required to operate their business.

Understanding your attack surface is key to understanding what you are defending and how.

Identify and monitor your attack surface: SMBs can't protect what they don't know, use attack surface management tools to see what hackers can gather through OSINT, active scanning, social networks and threat intelligence.

Defend your attack surface by testing its security: penetration testing, cloud configuration audits, social engineering training, endpoint protection, etc.

Humans are always the weakest link in any cybersecurity program, and the information they choose to make public is also part of the attack surface that attackers see from the outside, and use against the company to trick their people in giving away confidential information.

The market is still young for those tools, but they are getting increasingly popular with SMBs and large corporations because they can track how the attack surface evolves in real-time, and react quickly if anything abnormal is detected.


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