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Why is attack surface management important?
Attack surface management is important because it gives you a hacker’s perspective of your business’ online infrastructure, and where you are most exposed to a cyber attack.
It helps you identify and catalogue all your digital assets, and then evaluate them for security weaknesses such as misconfigurations, missing security patches, and exposed data.
This information can then be used to prioritise and remediate vulnerabilities, as well as to improve your overall security posture.
What is an external attack surface?
Your external attack surface is everything you have exposed to the public internet. Whether it's hosted on premise, in the cloud, or within your supply chain, it all contributes to your overall attack surface.
But an attack surface is also the sum of all potential points through which a malicious actor could exploit or compromise a system. FractalScan Surface is an attack surface management product that helps businesses identify, assess, and mitigate these weak points, enhancing online security and reducing the risk of cyberattacks.
Why do I need attack surface management?
With the increasing number of cloud services, home working policies and interconnected supply chains, your attack surface is no longer limited to your own infrastructure. It is now a composite of your on-premises, cloud, and third-party/vendor networks.
Manually keeping on top of all these different assets can be a never-ending challenge. FractalScan Surface will save you time and money and help you take immediate control of your cyber risks.
How does attack surface management help prevent cyber attacks?
Today a hacker has easy access to a plethora of automated reconnaissance tools that they use to hunt for vulnerable targets, meaning all organisations are at risk, regardless of size or industry.
An external attack surface management tool like FractalScan will arm you with a hacker's perspective of what you have online, giving your team the information they need to focus their efforts and make meaningful fixes quickly.
Identify risks and strengthen your business' cyber security with FractalScan Surface's attack surface scanner
How does FractalScan Surface work?
FractalScan Surface has been designed so anyone, regardless of technical ability, can use it and obtain meaningful information on the cyber security of their organisation.
Starting with just a domain or IP address FractalScan Surface scans the internet and conducts the following activity:
1. Discovery
If you don’t know it’s there, you can’t secure it, so the first step in any successful attack surface management process is to discover and identify all the assets you have online. This includes known & unknown IP addresses, servers, components, certificates, web pages, cloud providers and shadow IT.
2. Analysis
Once all your internet connected assets have been discovered, FractalScan Surface then gets to work analysing this list. Not all risks are equal, so to help teams focus their resources FractalScan uses a rating system to classify the issues it finds as Critical, High, Medium, or Low.
3. Remediation
Now FractalScan Surface has identified and analysed your attack surface, it can then help you with the remediation process. Every issue discovered by FractalScan includes clear and concise remediation advice. This empowers you and your team with the granular detail necessary to immediately start fixing your issues. The in-built “Actions” feature groups risks together that have associated remediation steps, to further streamline the remediation process.
4. Monitoring
Your attack surface is a constantly evolving, and attack surface management is only effective with ongoing management. FractalScan Surface by default rescans your infrastructure every 24 hours, it will then notify you of any new vulnerabilities or changes it discovers. This enables you to set and forget the monitoring process, helping increase the efficiency of your processes, but still giving you peace of mind that it’s in hand.
