Cybersecurity Glossary

Attack Surface Discovery

Attack surface discovery is an initial stage of attack surface management. It’s the process of automated searching to identify digital assets across an organization’s external IT (or Internet-exposed) ecosystem.

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What is Attack Surface Discovery?

Attack surface discovery can help cybersecurity posture by reducing cybersecurity risks. Learn the top methods to detect and mitigate vulnerabilities.

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Discovery

A dynamic asset inventory, built using natural language processing and advanced analysis of open source intelligence (OSINT), at your fingertips.

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Discovery and Contextualization

Learn how you can uncover your full organizational structure with high accuracy, enterprise scale, details, and evidence so that you can properly understand who owns and manages each digital asset exposed to the internet.

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Discover and Contextualize

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