Securing the mind-bogglingly fast expansion of your organization’s digital presence caused by setting up a remote staff may seem overwhelming—especially considering the boom in internet-exposed assets already happening over the past decade.
Businesses have been undergoing a digital transformation demanding rapid migration to the cloud and expanded adoption of web, mobile, and social platforms. These initiatives, which expand organizations’ digital presence far across the internet, are badly exposing the limitations of network security controls like firewalls, DLP, and network monitoring. According to the Verizon Data Breach report, external-facing web applications, into which network security tools lack visibility, comprised the vector category most commonly exploited in hacking-related breaches.
This digital transformation, already challenging long-held views of cybersecurity, was sent into hyperdrive by COVID-19. Almost overnight, workforces and business operations were decentralized and flung all over the world even farther than before, widening protection gaps and turning security protocols on their heads. Personnel, now forced to work from home, moved the edges of their organization’s digital attack surfaces along with them.
To put the sheer scale of what security teams are now tasked with defending into perspective, we analyzed RiskIQ’s internet-wide telemetry and massive internet data collection to reveal the true extent of the modern corporate digital attack surface. In our latest research, ‘Analysis of an Attack Surface,’ we’ll highlight five areas that we feel help to frame the challenges faced in going beyo ..
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