Just how big is the average attack surface for an organization with more than 4,000 employees?
When research respondents were asked about the number of assets that make up their attack surface, the estimated mean number of assets was over 100,000. Additionally, 22% of organizations estimate that their attack surface is made up of anywhere from 100,000 to more than 500,000 assets!
Attack surface monitoring helps organizations discover and monitor all the assets connected to their networks regardless of their location—in the DMZ, in public clouds, on third-party networks, etc.
By discovering and monitoring these assets, security professionals can then find the “path of least resistance” and vulnerabilities that hackers may use as a doorway to penetrate corporate networks and commence a cyber-attack. Armed with this intelligence, security teams can develop countermeasures, fine-tune security controls, and monitor signals that may indicate an attack in progress.
Register for the report to see the data behind these key takeaways:
Attack surface monitoring is critical but incomplete
Organizations focus only on the known attack surface
Attack surface testing remains separate and periodic
A continuous closed-loop attack surface monitoring and security testing process is needed
A SNEAK PEAK OF THE DATA
Over 2/3 of organizations report they experienced cyber-attacks
that originated from an unknown, unmanaged, or poorly managed company asset (see chart below). More surprising – 75% say they believe it will happen again!