Top Priorities For Attack Surface Management By cioreviewindia Team

Top Priorities For Attack Surface Management

cioreviewindia Team | Thursday, 10 June 2021, 06:08 IST

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TOP PRIORITIES FOR ATTACK SURFACE MANAGEMENTSince the development of technology and the internet, our world has seen a major shift in the way we all live our lives.

The invention of the internet and all the advancements in technology have given people a number of opportunities to grow and evolve in work, and connect with people around the globe at the touch of a few buttons.

Even though the internet and online services have proven to be extremely beneficial, keeping the data and services online has also become very difficult. Cyber threats and cyber crimes happen all the time and one needs to keep their online security system in proper check to avoid being invaded by hackers.

Attack surface management is one way for individuals and companies to monitor and manage possible threats to their online security systems or websites holding confidential data.

WHAT IS ATTACK SURFACE

When one starts to use the web and keep their data online, for private or work purposes, it is automatically a place for cyber-attacks or hackers to enter their online system and gain access to information or data that is confidential in many cases.

Attack surface is like a map that can be made to be able to understand and predict possible loopholes or ways that someone else can hack into one’s system or a map that can tell the various ways in which the system can be attacked.

For even a small to medium enterprise or a business model, the attack surface can be huge and incorporate a number of ways in which the system can be hacked into. For even larger companies with more data and services on the web, it is gigantic.

The greater the attack surface, the greater is the potential number of ways in which an online security system can be compromised.

ATTACK SURFACE MANAGEMENT

Attack surface management programs are developed in order to keep the system safe and avoid potential threats or invasions into one’s online security system. A number of hackers don’t program or plan a well-developed attack on someone’s system these days, they rather look for loopholes in the existing system and its security.

Once they can identify the existing loopholes, it is easy to hack into the security system by simply exploiting the existence of flaws.

Basic cyber practices and reducing the attack surface can help begin with keeping one’s system safe from possible threats. Apart from that, there are some priorities that programmers keep in mind when programming a security system, especially an attack surface management program:

  1. MAPPING: it is extremely important to be aware of the potential threats to one’s security. Mapping the attack surface and looking for loopholes will help to identify the existing shortcomings of one’s system, to avoid future possible attacks.
  1. REDUCING ATTACK SURFACE: after the mapping comes to the next step, to decrease the attack surface. This is important to reduce the risk of being attacked by hackers.
  1. PROTECTING THE CUSTOMERS: not only is the data and private information subject to confidentiality, especially when it comes to the customers, their online security is also the responsibility of enterprises who run their business online. There are a number of fraudulent apps and hackers that may try to compromise the security of your customers and this is also one of the major loopholes to be included in the attack surface.

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