BrandPost: Worried About Your Internet Presence? Focus on Your Attack Surface

BrandPost: Worried About Your Internet Presence? Focus on Your Attack Surface

The Internet has created myriad ways for people and organizations to connect with one another. Unfortunately, attackers will attempt to find and exploit the Internet presence of an organization. All of the connections, profiles, pages, and posts can be discovered and potentially weaponized in both targeted and opportunistic attacks.

The classes of data that make up your Internet presence fall into a few different buckets, some of which may not actually belong to the organization itself:

Attack surface: These are directly attackable parts of your network like websites, networking equipment, and exposed user workstations. It can also include your larger cyber ecosystem, such as supplier or subsidiary networks that might be targeted for an attack.

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