How do you discover vulnerable assets?
In today’s fast-paced digital world, it’s virtually impossible for any IT or security team to have a complete inventory of every single asset their organization owns.
"Shadow IT" or "unknown unknowns" refers to unmanaged, unmonitored, and unpatched assets on your network that attackers often target. Our Attack Surface Monitoring (ASM) service solves this by continuously discovering these unknown assets from an attacker's "outside-in" perspective, finding anything publicly visible and associated with your organization.
Here is a breakdown of our key discovery methods:
Starting with the Known, Expanding to the Unknown: We start our discovery with your primary domains, corporate IP ranges, and known cloud accounts as "seed data." Our service then acts as a digital detective, using sophisticated techniques to uncover related, often unknown, assets.
Hunting for Hidden Assets from the Public Internet: We mimic malicious hackers to crawl the public internet for hidden assets linked to your organization, even those not officially tied to your main domains or IPs.
Deep Cloud Integration and Discovery: The cloud is a major source of unknown assets. A developer can spin up a new cloud instance or an Amazon S3 bucket for a project and forget to decommission it. Without proper oversight, these can remain active and unmonitored.
Continuous Monitoring for New Assets: The discovery process is not a one-time event. Your attack surface is constantly changing. Our service continuously and automatically repeats all of these discovery methods.
By continuously scanning domains, hostnames, IP addresses, and integrating with certificate authorities, registrars, and managed DNS providers, ASM actively uncovers "shadow IT" and other unmanaged assets that might otherwise be missed by traditional tools.
We see what hackers would see, and then some!
For more information about Asset Discovery, visit our blog article Understanding asset discovery in the context of attack surface monitoring to learn more!