Attack surfaces are growing and becoming more and more complex as businesses continue moving into the cloud. Unfortunately, traditional security processes cannot keep up with these changes, leaving visibility gaps. You can’t secure what you don’t know. 

Modern infrastructure is complex–including multi, private, and public clouds, inheriting assets via mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and access from supply chain partners and remote workers–and can change instantly. All it takes for a new cloud instance to be created outside of security processes is an employee with a credit card. It’s impossible for IT experts to keep track of all assets and the people responsible for them via slow, manual, and infrequent processes. These unknown assets are a direct threat and let control slip from the hands of security teams.

Attack surface management (ASM) helps organizations gain comprehensive visibility and a continuously updated inventory into a number of entry points and vulnerabilities in their systems and networks, whether in the cloud, on-premises or collocated in multiple places. Creating a complete system of record like this requires a new line of thinking because network perimeters are a thing of the past, so the traditional view of an organization’s attack surface no longer applies. ASM ensures you see everything on your attack surface and helps you take immediate action.