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Cyber Security Value Added DistributorsAdversaries know your attack surface; but, do you?
Shadow Risk Elimination is a cutting-edge solution to provide high visibility of attack surface to enterprise security teams which was hitherto not available.
Assessing internet security postures have been a difficult paradigm for large organizations over the last two and half decades – in a way it could said that the whole approach has been flawed. Vulnerability scanners, pen testers, and threat intelligence solutions all need to be configured to start with. But by specifying which areas and assets to test, they by definition leave unknown or unmanaged assets out. It’s those openings that extend attackers the window to walk right in
Attackers look for the path of least resistance in your attack surface so that they can break into your organization’s high-value digital assets. They are looking for entry points that your organization doesn’t see; this is what is known as “shadow risk.” To eliminate shadow risks, you need ongoing visibility of your full attack surface, and there’s only one proven way to get that: perform reconnaissance across your entire IT ecosystem, adopting an outside-in approach. How much of your IT ecosystem – your digital attack surface – is susceptible to an attack? The extent to which you are open to attack depends on the depth and breadth of knowledge you have about what is connected, what is running and where it is. In order to protect your assets, you have to understand what you have, right down to the last connected device. Your attack surface is made up of digital assets you have or use, so to understand your attack surface, you have to understand your assets and how they are connected to your infrastructure, partners and other networks. Even more importantly, you must understand how those assets impact your business: who owns them and in which business processes are they used. This information is fundamental to determining the criticality of any associated risks and requires a level of insight that goes well beyond a listing of IP addresses and ports. These reasons are extremely important and why organizations should consider solutions that give constant visibility to their threat vectors.
Shadow Risk Elimination can right away augment your security posture and get you heightened visibility to your threat vectors which were difficult to achieve until the advent of cutting-edge technologies such as this. There are literally hundreds of solutions available to discover and document what assets are in your IT infrastructure. But these asset management solutions neglect a tremendous amount of your attack surface. For example, they cannot discover the cloud environments that your lines-of-business and functional teams are using, but which your IT teams don’t know about. They do not explore the assets your partners use to connect with you, or the assets belonging to your own subsidiaries. And, they cannot identify assets that are abandoned, yet they remain a part of your attack surface and expose you to threats.
Cyberton represents CyCognito – a pioneering technology vendor addressing Shadow Risk Elimination
CyCognito solves one of the most fundamental business problems in cybersecurity: seeing how attackers view your organization, where they are most likely to break in, what systems and assets are at risk and how you can eliminate the exposure. Founded by national intelligence agency veterans, CyCognito has a deep understanding of how attackers exploit blind spots and a path of least resistance. The Palo Alto-based company is funded by leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists, and its mission is to help organizations protect themselves from even the most sophisticated attackers. It does this with a category-defining, transformative platform that automates offensive cybersecurity operations to provide reconnaissance capabilities superior to those of attackers.