How can we reduce the attack surface?

The wider the attack surface, the more cybersecurity risks. However, modern organisations rely heavily on various devices, systems apps, cloud systems, etc., increasing their attack surface and risks.To reduce the attack surface and associated risks, carry out a thorough asset discovery to find inactive, unused, unnecessary, or unauthorised devices and get rid of them quickly. In addition, assess and limit permissions levels in each application or system to reduce entry points.

What’s the difference between ASM and BAS?

Attack surface management (ASM) is focused on monitoring, detecting, resolving, and preventing cybersecurity threats. It uses similar tools and technologies that hackers use to find vulnerabilities and exploit them.On the other hand, Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) tests simulate a real-world cyberattack to measure how effective your security measures are.

What are the requirements for attack surface management?

Attack surface management requires organisations to perform: Asset discoveryRisk assessment and prioritisationRemediationReportingContinuous monitoring

Attack Surface Management - Microminder Cyber Security

Attack Surface Management Services by Microminder Cyber Security

Get a proactive, continuous cyber defence for your organisation’s assets with Microminder Cyber Security’s comprehensive attack surface management services. Detect, respond to, and prevent threats before hackers do!

What Is ASM (Attack Surface Management)?

Attack surface management (ASM) in cybersecurity is the process of managing and protecting an organisation’s attack surface by continuously monitoring, identifying, prioritising, and remediating internal and external cybersecurity vulnerabilities, risks, and threats.

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Secure Your Organisation with Microminder’s Attack Surface Management Services

Microminder’s attack surface management services safeguard your organisation's attack surface, including all the known and unknown assets, devices, shadow IT, software solutions, hardware components, third-party risks, cloud resources, and more.

Unlike asset management and discovery, ASM is performed from a malicious actors’ perspective, covering all IT assets visible and accessible to attackers to exploit. It includes assets both internal as well as external (like third-party resources and internet-exposed assets).

Our expert security team performs 24/7 monitoring of your attack surface to detect threats like insider threats, malware, phishing, social engineering, etc. and eliminate them as soon as they arise. We also use similar tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that hackers use in order to identify risks and take a proactive threat response.

Our Attack Surface Management Capabilities

Continuous monitoring

We monitor your attack surface continuously to look for potential vulnerabilities and risks. This increases attack surface visibility, eliminating blind spots and unearthing risks before hackers do. It helps in both internal and external attack surface management.

Threat intelligence

Our advanced cyberattack surface management services provide you with accurate threat intelligence, like hidden risks, security weaknesses, misconfigurations, etc. With full context on your attack surface and threats, you can create effective action plans.

Risk estimation and prioritisation

Our expert security professionals estimate risk exposure using attack surface intelligence. We also find and prioritise weak links that may compromise your assets and eliminate them based on their severity and impacts on your organisation.

Realistic scenarios

We mimic realistic attack scenarios and hackers’ tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to examine your risk posture and determine threat exploitation opportunities.

Detailed reporting

Get detailed reports on your organisation’s security risk posture, assets, and threats identified. With threat intelligence integration in your cybersecurity efforts, you can determine the strengths and weaknesses in your strategy and improve them.

Proactive remediation

Managing your attack surface effectively enables you to perform proactive threat detection and remediation. We at Microminder provide suggestions based on your risk profile on managing your digital attack surface and protecting your organisation from attacks.

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How Attack Surface Management Works?

Here’s how we at Microminder manage and secure your attack surface:

Asset Discovery:
We use advanced scanners and systems like SIEM, EDR, etc. discover all your internal and external assets and gain complete visibility, leaving no blind spots. It includes software, hardware, SaaS solutions, cloud resources, third-party integrations, shadow IT (eg. abandoned apps, forgotten databases, etc.), and other endpoints that make up your attack surface from where hackers can gain entry.
Risk Assessment:
Once we map your assets, we move on to analysing each one of them to detect potential risks. Our comprehensive security risk assessment services aim to find out:

Misconfigured systems with sensitive data in them
Unpatched vulnerabilities in applications
Overlooked risks like open ports and unattended login portals
Old software versions that can have bugs in them

This way, we detect risks in your organisation’s security posture and assign them a priority level based on how critical they are. This gives you an idea of which risks to fix first and reduce their impact.
Reporting:
We document all our findings in detail and present the report to your security team. It will give you the context of how strong your security posture is, vulnerabilities discovered, impacts, and remediation suggestions. Using our reports, it becomes effortless to:

Understand risks and fix them faster
Discuss security issues with decision-makers and security leaders
Track risk mitigation progress over time
Enhance security posture management
Remediation:
Our work doesn’t end with finding the problems, we provide solutions too! Our skilled security team uses advanced tools and technologies to protect your organisation’s assets with proactive risk mitigation.

By detecting all internal, external, and hidden threats, we ensure they are mitigated immediately before they can cause further damage. Whether there are issues in misconfigurations, access controls, applying patches, or updating software, we are always there for you, always!
Monitoring:
To ensure no threat dwells in your network or systems, we perform continuous monitoring of your network, devices, and IT infrastructure. This continuous attack surface management helps us identify vulnerabilities and risks as soon as they pop up, expediting the remediation process.

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