Attack Surface Management Driving Secure Digital Transformation

A recent study by IBM found that nearly six in ten responding organizations accelerated their digital transformation efforts due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The disruptive ground brought on by the global crisis, further exacerbated by the rise in hybrid and remote workforces, has shown organizations just how important it is to be built for change. They need to be both scalable and flexible, and the same goes for their IT infrastructures.
Cloud adoption and management is now at the top of priority lists for CISOs and executives, with the same study's organizations planning a 20% increase in their prioritization of cloud technology over the next two years. There is clearly no doubt that digital transformation and accelerated cloud adoption can help organizations optimize and streamline their operations, create innovative business offerings and achieve competitive advantage. However, the implication of rapid digital transformation, adoption of new technologies and the remote/hybrid workers sprawl means that CISOs and security teams can find themselves unable to fully grasp, and thus secure, an ever-growing attack surface.
The key role of attack surface management in digital transformation
Because of digital transformation, today's organizations don't keep all of their digital assets secured tightly behind their perimeter. Rather, they're scattered all over the Internet, sometimes forgotten and often unsecured. With more areas where a threat or cyber attack can take place, organizations need to protect their critical assets. Also because of digital transformation and cloud adoption, many organizations can suffer from issues with vendor migration and legacy tooling left online longer than planned. The best way to react and respond is with a full understanding of their external attack surface and all digital assets. This is why attack surface management plays a key role in the journey to a secure and successful digital transformation. Attack surface management, or ASM, allows organizations to identify, inventory, classify and monitor all digital assets in their external infrastructure.
For organizations with large amounts of cloud instances or hundreds of VPNs, AWS instances, etc., ASM can be particularly important, by helping them identify all of their attack surface components, attack vectors and exposures. With a unified view of its external infrastructure, an organization can better navigate across disparate technology systems and quickly map and resolve vulnerabilities while keeping pace with its dynamic attack surface. It can also arm the organization with insights toward making better-informed decisions regarding digital transformation efforts.
Solving digital transformation challenges with ASR
Attack Surface Reduction, ASR, is the platform we created to tackle the challenges of digital transformation and the dynamic attack surfaces that come with it. ASR can provide your organization with accurate insight into all digital assets, including their location, ownership and the services and technologies running on them. Essentially, ASR is there to make attack surface management easy.
Discover and visualize all of your digital assets
Many organizations struggle with keeping track of all their assets, but rushing to adopt new transformation technologies and diversify an IT environment can make staying on top of an already chaotic infrastructure even more challenging. The lack of visibility into its infrastructure can give an organization an incomplete picture of its digital risks, putting it at serious danger of a data breach. Asset discovery helps organizations maintain awareness over all of the assets and services running within their infrastructure. With continuous discovery, you can even find risks in forgotten and assets in development, well before they become threats. ASR allows you to visualize and organize all digital assets instantly, providing all information related to your apex domain, subdomains, associated domains, ...