External Attack
Surface Management

Gain a comprehensive understanding of your digital landscape using TIKAJ’s External Attack Surface Management (EASM) features. Identify potential threats across your growing attack surface, focus on the most critical priorities, and strengthen your defenses where you’re most exposed.
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Definition of External Attack Surface Management (EASM)

It is the practice of identifying and safeguarding an organization’s external digital assets, like websites, applications, and network infrastructure, from vulnerabilities and threats. It entails monitoring and fortifying these exposed areas to prevent unauthorized access and breaches by potential attackers.

Benefits of TIKAJ's External Attack Surface Management

Gain complete visibility into your digital landscape, discover hidden assets, and uncover security blind spots. We help you map and inventory DNS and internet records, including subdomains, while offering unlimited, on-demand investigations.

Insight into digital footprint

Our platform intelligently scans & identifies various online assets, discovers unknown elements, detects security gaps, identifies APIs, reveals shadow IT, and automates IT ecosystem change analysis.

Map & inventory DNS/internet records

Uncover and catalog records for your systems, servers, websites, APIs, and applications. Identify and inventory subdomains that could lead attackers to your online presence.

Unlimited, anytime investigations

Conduct investigations at your organization’s preferred pace, and enjoy flexible change and deployment options with full visibility.

View Your Assets the Way Attackers Do.

To defend against attackers, think like one. Attackers seek the easiest path to valuable digital assets. To counter this, organizations must continuously map their attack surface, assess risks, and prioritize remediation. Failing to do so leaves vulnerabilities that attackers exploit.

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Five Essential Components for Safeguarding and Managing the External Attack Surface

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Mapping Business and IT Relationships for Effective External Attack Surface Management

Start by identifying business and IT relationships, such as acquired companies and cloud assets. Then, discover externally-exposed IT assets and hidden connections that could be exploited by attackers.

Assessing IT Ecosystem Assets for Vulnerabilities

Once you’ve identified your IT assets, it’s time to assess them for vulnerabilities. Attackers need just one weakness, like misconfigurations or network flaws. Employ diverse security tests to uncover these vulnerabilities across your external attack surface and identify potential attack paths for attackers by correlating the results.

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Strategic Risk Prioritization for Enhanced Security

Effective risk management starts with prioritization. It helps you focus on what matters most. Without it, the deluge of security issues and alerts can be unmanageable. Prioritization should consider the business context, tying assets, sensitive data, and processes to departments or subsidiaries. This aligns security efforts with specific organizational needs.

Streamlining Remediation for Enhanced Attack Surface Protection

Operationalizing remediation is crucial for effective threat intelligence and attack surface management. Security teams can expedite the process by providing detailed evidence and actionable guidance to IT operations teams, facilitating swift risk mitigation without extensive investigations.

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Continuous Vigilance in a Dynamic IT Landscape

To stay ahead in the ever-changing IT and threat environment, it’s essential to consistently implement the prior strategies. Organizations evolve, and attackers persist, necessitating ongoing external attack surface and vulnerability management to identify, assess, and mitigate risks within the changing attack surface.

Five Essential Components for Safeguarding and Managing the External Attack Surface

Mapping Business and IT Relationships for Effective External Attack Surface Management

Start by identifying business and IT relationships, such as acquired companies and cloud assets. Then, discover externally-exposed IT assets and hidden connections that could be exploited by attackers.

Assessing IT Ecosystem Assets for Vulnerabilities

Once you’ve identified your IT assets, it’s time to assess them for vulnerabilities. Attackers need just one weakness, like misconfigurations or network flaws. Employ diverse security tests to uncover these vulnerabilities across your external attack surface and identify potential attack paths for attackers by correlating the results.

Strategic Risk Prioritization for Enhanced Security

Effective risk management starts with prioritization. It helps you focus on what matters most. Without it, the deluge of security issues and alerts can be unmanageable. Prioritization should consider the business context, tying assets, sensitive data, and processes to departments or subsidiaries. This aligns security efforts with specific organizational needs.

Streamlining Remediation for Enhanced Attack Surface Protection

Operationalizing remediation is crucial for effective threat intelligence and attack surface management. Security teams can expedite the process by providing detailed evidence and actionable guidance to IT operations teams, facilitating swift risk mitigation without extensive investigations.

Continuous Vigilance in a Dynamic IT Landscape

To stay ahead in the ever-changing IT and threat environment, it’s essential to consistently implement the prior strategies. Organizations evolve, and attackers persist, necessitating ongoing external attack surface and vulnerability management to identify, assess, and mitigate risks within the changing attack surface.

Frequently Asked Questions

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What is External Attack Surface Management (EASM)?

External Attack Surface Management (EASM) is a cybersecurity practice that analyzes and secures an organization’s externally-exposed assets, such as websites, applications, servers, and network infrastructure. It’s a comprehensive approach to reduce vulnerabilities and entry points for cyber threats, mitigating the risk of data breaches and reputational harm.

What is the difference between internal and external attack surface management?

Internal attack surface management concentrates on identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities within an organization’s internal network and systems, safeguarding against threats originating from within, like insider threats or internal malware. On the other hand, external attack surface management focuses on vulnerabilities in publicly accessible assets, such as websites, servers, APIs, and cloud services. Its objective is to diminish the risk of external threats, like hackers and automated bots, attempting to exploit weaknesses in the external attack surface.

What is External Attack Surface Mapping?

Mapping the external attack surface involves the identification and mapping of an organization’s internet-exposed assets and is an integral component of an external attack surface management solution.

Can TIKAJ help with my security posture?

The core strength of our platform, featuring five distinct solutions, positions us as a leader in the security threat mitigation industry and enhances our clients’ security stance. By combining our robust PTaaS (Penetration Testing as a Service) with RBVM and EASM solutions, and harnessing a shared, comprehensive data repository, TIKAJ offers continuous insights into your organization’s evolving security posture. No other vendor or standalone security service can match the breadth and depth of TIKAJ ‘s integrated vulnerability prioritization and risk management solutions, making us your ideal partner in enhancing security.

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