As manufacturing enterprises adopt digital transformation, integrating SCADA with cloud-based solutions introduces serious cybersecurity risks. This case study highlights how a Fortune 500 manufacturer inadvertently exposed SCADA systems to the internet, making them vulnerable to attacks. Traditional security tools failed to detect these exposures due to blind spots in asset inventory and reliance on predefined IP ranges. By leveraging external exposure management, the company identified and remediated these risks before exploitation. This incident underscores the need for continuous attack surface monitoring, risk-based prioritization, and automated asset discovery to secure operational technology (OT) environments against emerging threats.
Savvy security leaders are moving from the legacy framework of vulnerability management to the emerging framework of exposure management. To learn more about common challenges security teams might face on their journey to exposure management, check out this report: “Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management: A Roadmap for Modernizing Your Application Attack Surface Security.”
Exposure Management (EM), introduced by Gartner in 2022, represents the evolution or vulnerability management. With EM, security teams can address visibility and testing gaps, and stay ahead of threats. This blog includes six signs that your organization needs EM, and five essential requirements to implement it.
CyCognito just published our 2024 State of External Exposure Management Report. In this report, we looked at where serious issues hide on the average attack surface, how basic protections can help (or fail to) protect critical assets, and the ways that deprioritizing issues can help security teams spend their time on the right vulnerabilities.
I recently sat down with Daniel Schlegel, the Global Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Security Officer, and Chief Privacy Officer of Berlitz Corporation, a global leader in language training and cultural education, to hear about their transformative experience using CyCognito to gain global external attack surface visibility, reduce costs, and enhance their security posture.
I recently sat down with Daniel Maier-Johnson, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and Markus Diehm, Cybersecurity Analyst, with Asklepios Kliniken GmbH, Germany’s second-largest private healthcare provider, to hear about their experience using CyCognito to gain continuous monitoring, prioritize cyber risks, and safeguard patient information.
CyCognito shares insights showing how security teams can learn from previous incidents and leverage exposure management techniques to stay ahead of attackers.
Networking equipment vendor Juniper Networks recently exposed current and former customer information due to a Salesforce misconfiguration. While incidents like these can give attackers valuable data and footholds into your network, leveraging exposure management best practices and processes can help organizations mitigate these risks.
Continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) is a risk reduction strategy introduced by Gartner in 2021. Designed to significantly reduce mean time to remediation (MTTR), it relies on coordination of people, processes and technology. Choosing the right CTEM technology is critical to efficient implementation.
