Security News > 2023 > July > How to Manage Your Attack Surface?

With cloud migration dramatically increasing the number of internal and external targets, prioritizing threats and managing your attack surface from an attacker's perspective has never been more important.

First, it's important to understand that your attack surface is the sum of your digital assets that are 'exposed' - whether the digital assets are secure or vulnerable, known or unknown, in active use or not.

If you reduce your attack surface, regardless of vulnerabilities, you become harder to attack tomorrow.

Since a common attack vector is through employee workstations, attack surface management should include internal systems too.

Business context #. Not all attack vectors are created equal and the 'context' - what's exposed to the internet - is a vital part of attack surface management.

With its attack surface monitoring capabilities, Intruder is solving one of the most fundamental problems in cybersecurity: the need to understand how attackers see your organization, where they are likely to break in, and how you can identify, prioritize and eliminate risk.

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