What are the benefits of attack surface monitoring?

Attack surface monitoring lets you identify vulnerabilities and discover potential weaknesses in your digital assets. It also aids in cyber risk reduction and improved security posture, enabling proactive risk mitigation by addressing vulnerabilities before they are exploited.

What is external attack surface management?

External attack surface management involves monitoring and managing the digital assets and entry points that are accessible from outside an organization’s network. EASM focuses on protecting the organization from external threats and vulnerabilities.

What are the different types of attack surfaces?

Network attack surface: The external-facing network infrastructure and services. Application attack surface: The software applications and web services are exposed to potential attacks. Human attack surface: The vulnerabilities related to employees, their behaviors, and access privileges. Supply chain attack surface: The risks associated with third-party vendors and partners.

What is the attack surface process?

Identification: Identifying all assets, entry points, and potential vulnerabilities. Assessment: Analyzing the identified elements for weaknesses and risks. Mitigation: Implementing security measures to reduce the attack surface. Monitoring: Continuously observing and updating the attack surface based on changes and emerging threats.

How do you deploy attack surface reduction?

To reduce your external attack surface, it is recommended to implement access controls and limit unnecessary access to resources, undergo patch management, network segmentation, and application security, along with training employees in security best practices.

How is the attack surface measured?

Your attack surface can be measured by assessing the number of exposed assets and entry points. As well, vulnerability assessments, attack surface mapping, and tracking changes in the attack surface over time can serve as tools to measure your attack surface.

External Attack Surface Management

Safeguard your organization against cyber threats with complete visibility into your external attack surface.

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External Attack Surface Monitoring At Our Core

Panorays’ industry-leading technology scans thousands of assets across your supply chain, with real-time, accurate, and reliable data, so you can confidently evaluate your third-party cyber risks. Our detailed Cyber Posture Assessments uncover vulnerabilities and identify potential security gaps with a complete breakdown of your security posture as well as that of your third parties.

External Attack Surface Insights

Our Attack Surface Management tools let you drill deep into your supply chain risks by, revealing Shadow IT and discovering 4th and 5th parties. You can easily assess the cyber posture of indirect parties and select critical vendors for continuous monitoring, so you can be the first to know of risks across your supply chain.

Real-Time Data on Evolving Risks

Panorays’ unique Risk Insights Portal gives you instant alerts on cybersecurity threats such as breaches, vulnerabilities, and zero-day attacks, with a detailed analysis of their impact on your direct and indirect suppliers. Panorays’ in-platform communication makes it easy to resolve vulnerabilities and remediate critical findings, all with a clear audit trail.

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Secure Your Supply Chain

Map out the impact of a cyber risk across your digital supply chain, and see which third, fourth and Nth parties are affected.

Know Who to Trust

Prevent data breaches, protect your reputation, and ensure the continuity of your business with complete visibility into risks.

Respond to Risks

Proactively remediate gaps and address critical threats before an attacker sees them.

Comprehensive Asset Management and Discovery

Panorays performs hundreds of tests across your attack surface, collecting information on exposed assets so you can understand potential risks across three layers.

Network & IT

7 subcategories

Application

3 subcategories

Human

4 subcategories

Web Server

Mail Server

DNS

TLS

Asset Reputation

Cloud

Exposed Services

Application Security

Domain Attacks

Technologies

Employee Attack Surface

Social Posture

Security Team

Responsiveness

Holistic Attack Surface Management

Cyber Risk Posture Ratings

Review your vendors’ cyber posture rating with in-depth details into their assets, and work together to remediate any risks.

Comprehensive Risk Analysis

Panorays conducts numerous tests across network and IT, applications, and human factors to reveal security gaps.

Continuous Monitoring

Monitor your suppliers 24/7, with live alerts on security changes or breaches to your third-party network.

Third and Fourth-Party Discovery

Save time with Panorays Supply Chain Discovery, automatically detecting your third parties and indirect 4th – Nth parties in your supply chain.

The Human Factor

Panorays is the only platform that factors in human behavior, assessing social media presence and employee security awareness into the overall cybersecurity rating.

Dark Web Insights

Panorays checks mentions of your vendor on hacker forums and other dark web marketplaces, providing deep, real-time insight about in-the-wild threats to your supply chain.

External Attack Surface Frequently Asked Questions

Attack surface monitoring lets you identify vulnerabilities and discover potential weaknesses in your digital assets. It also aids in cyber risk reduction and improved security posture, enabling proactive risk mitigation by addressing vulnerabilities before they are exploited.
External attack surface management involves monitoring and managing the digital assets and entry points that are accessible from outside an organization’s network. EASM focuses on protecting the organization from external threats and vulnerabilities.
Network attack surface: The external-facing network infrastructure and services.
Application attack surface: The software applications and web services are exposed to potential attacks.
Human attack surface: The vulnerabilities related to employees, their behaviors, and access privileges.
Supply chain attack surface: The risks associated with third-party vendors and partners.
Identification: Identifying all assets, entry points, and potential vulnerabilities.
Assessment: Analyzing the identified elements for weaknesses and risks.
Mitigation: Implementing security measures to reduce the attack surface.
Monitoring: Continuously observing and updating the attack surface based on changes and emerging threats.
To reduce your external attack surface, it is recommended to implement access controls and limit unnecessary access to resources, undergo patch management, network segmentation, and application security, along with training employees in security best practices.
Your attack surface can be measured by assessing the number of exposed assets and entry points.
As well, vulnerability assessments, attack surface mapping, and tracking changes in the attack surface over time can serve as tools to measure your attack surface.