What is Attack Surface Monitoring?

Attack Surface Monitoring is a proactive cybersecurity service that provides a complete, real-time view of your organization's digital assets and their associated exposures.

In today's digital age, your company's online presence is constantly growing and evolving. You have multiple digital assets represents a potential entry point for an attacker:

• Websites

• Cloud Applications

• Remote Employee Devices

• Third-Party Integrations, and more

Each is a vulnerability that could be exploited to compromise your systems, steal data, or disrupt operations. The sum total of all these potential entry points is called your attack surface.

Think of your attack surface as all the doors, windows, and even hidden vents an intruder could use to get into your building. If you don't know where all these entry points are, or if some are unlocked or broken, you're at significant risk.

Attack Surface Monitoring (ASM) is a cybersecurity discipline focused on continuously discovering, inventorying, analyzing, and monitoring all of your organization's digital assets and the potential vulnerabilities associated with them, from an attacker's perspective. It's about gaining comprehensive, real-time visibility into every possible way an adversary could gain unauthorized access to your systems and data.

Learn more about ASM in our blog How to prepare your company for cyber insurance with Redsift ASM