Top Five Strategies for Enterprises to Safeguard Their Attack Surface

New, global-scale attacks are not a security problem; they are more of a big data problem that requires a data-driven solution.

To what extent are security experts aware of their attack surface? Enterprise digital attack surfaces have evolved over a very short period of time, extending far beyond firewall-protected internal networks.

Major issue: Security teams may not be monitoring the entirety of their organization and may not even know what to look for.

However, someone else with malicious intent, unfortunately, is almost certainly doing it.

Businesses are expanding their attack surface in broad and dynamic ways as they embrace the digital initiatives and technologies that help them grow.

The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated this change, which can expose organizations to ways they are unaware

This widespread obliviousness of businesses to their digital presence resulted in a significant shift in the scope of cyber-attacks.

Modern attacks, such as those exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange and SolarWinds, are so large that they go beyond the fundamental definition of cybersecurity.

In reality, these new global-scale attacks are more of a big data problem that requires a data-driven solution.

The attacks surface

The enterprise network is no longer the only attack surface. If security teams are just concerned with defending their networks from threat actors, they are likely unaware of the full scope of their attack surface, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation.

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