All news with #external attack surface management tag

When Cybersecurity Theory Meets Operational Reality

🧭 Security teams often implement best practices but face operational gaps: undocumented cloud assets, interrupted scan schedules, noisy threat feeds and endpoints left unmonitored. The piece explains how these real‑world failures turn ideal controls into misleading dashboards and alert fatigue. It warns that stitching together point products multiplies complexity and slows response, and recommends a unified approach that correlates EASM and DRP signals so teams can prioritize remediation with context, citing Outpost24 and its CompassDRP solution as an example.

Four-Step EASM Framework to Reduce External Cyber Risk

🔍 External Attack Surface Management (EASM) requires a continuous, automated approach to discover internet-facing assets, detect vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation. The article outlines a practical four-step process — identify and classify assets, risk detection, risk assessment, and prioritization and remediation — to reduce external cyber risk. A real-world Jenkins misconfiguration illustrates how shadow IT and configuration changes can expose sensitive data, and why centralized, recurrent EASM platforms that integrate with existing workflows and provide actionable guidance are essential. Effective defense combines fast MTTD from tools with responsive teams to achieve timely MTTR.