Attack Surface Management

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See and secure your entire attack surface

With ever increasingly intertwined supply chains, cloud infrastructures, remote working, and APIs, your digital ecosystem is ever expanding. There is no way to avoid it… your attack surface must also do the same, making it increasingly difficult to manage your security posture.

Our vCISOs are experts in managing attack surfaces and supply chains effectively. By visualising and analysing digital footprints, you will clearly see the vulnerabilities and most urgent actions.

•  Gain complete visibility without the need for agents

•  Unify internal and external attack surface coverage in one place 

•  Achieve comprehensive asset logs from a single source of truth

•  Uncover sensitive OT and IoT devices without risk of disruption

•  Deploy in any environment and start seeing results in hours

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    A CyberKainos vCISO will help you:

    Process automation

    Automate Asset Discovery

    Identify and inventory all your internet-facing assets, including cloud instances, shadow IT, and third-party dependencies

    High quality data

    Create real-time management dashboards 

    Easy to understand security ratings offer insight into live risks so you can prioritise your most critical issues.

    Share your findings with suppliers

    We not only provide the tools to reveal the security risks in your attack surface, but also help share this vital information with your suppliers

    Offensive Attack Surface Management – Key Features

    Offensive Attack Surface Management take a proactive, attacker-centric approach to identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. By simulating real-world attack techniques, we help you stay one step ahead of adversaries.

    We simulate real-word attack tactics, techniques and procedures

    Thinking and acting like an attacker, we will constantly probe and look for weaknesses to exploit by:

    • Automated reconnaissance: Continuously scanning your external attack surface to identify any exposed assets, misconfigurations, or missed patches

    •  Exploit simulation: Actively testing for exploitable weaknesses using advanced, real-world attack techniques

    •  Attack path analysis: Map out potential breach scenarios to understand how attackers could infiltrate your environment, and how they could move through it

    Utilise threat intelligence

    We receive advanced insights and actionable intelligence which we use protect your organisation from evolving cybersecurity threats

    • Always on assessments: Maintain an always-on testing engine to detect new vulnerabilities as they emerge

    • Live threat feeds: Leverage real-time threat intelligence to adapt your defences to evolving attack techniques and playbooks

    Actionable insights and remediation

    Train your teams and utilise the knowledge you now possess about their likely adversaries’ tactics to run a highly effective offensive attack surface management program

    • Prioritised risk scoring: Focus on the most critical threats that pose the highest risk to your organisation.

    • Remediation playbooks: Receive step-by-step guidance to address identified weaknesses based on real-world attacker methodologies

    • Compliance reporting: Generate audit-ready reports to demonstrate due diligence and compliance with key industry standards

    Defensive Attack Surface Management – Key Features

    Defensive Attack Surface Management provides continuous visibility, monitoring, and risk mitigation across your internal and external environments. We ensure you stay ahead of threats by identifying vulnerabilities, third-party risks, and maintaining your compliance with industry standards.

     

     

    Complete attack surface visibility

    Gain a 360-degree view of your digital ecosystem, including assets you may not even knew existed. Our defensive ASM delivers:

    • Automated asset discovery: Identify and inventory every internet-facing asset, including cloud instances, shadow IT, and third-party dependencies

    • Third-party risk insights: Assess the security posture of vendors and partners to identify potential weak links in your supply chain.

    • Dark web & breach monitoring: Receive real-time alerts if sensitive credentials, configurations, or assets are exposed online

    Continuous monitoring and risk assessment

    We believe in moving away from point-in-time assessments and monitoring, and towards real-time visibility of risks and compliance status

    • Real-time security posture monitoring: Continuously evaluate vulnerabilities across your organisation’s perimeter and external vendors

    • Customisable risk scoring: Prioritise risks based on severity and business impact to focus efforts on the most critical issues

    • Compliance mapping: Ensure your adherence to industry standards such as ISO 27001, GDPR, NIST CSF, and DORA and be alerted to any gaps in real time.

    Third-party risk and supply chain security

    Inheriting vulnerabilities from suppliers is a leading cause of cyber incidents. Aegis extends your capabilities to assessing risks right across your vendor ecosystem:

    • Vendor security ratings: Gain instant visibility into third-party security postures with risk scoring and compliance mapping

    • Automated risk assessments: Continuously evaluate vendor risks before onboarding and throughout the relationship

    • Centralised risk dashboard: Track and manage vendor risks from a single platform, with built-in workflows for collaboration and remediation

    •  Share your results with your suppliers: Empower them to address their security gaps without delay.

    Actionable insights and remediation

    Our defensive ASM doesn’t just identify risks, it provides clear, prioritised guidance to help you address them effectively

    • Real-time risk scoring: Focus on the most critical vulnerabilities first, reducing alert fatigue and optimising resource allocation

    • Remediation playbooks: Access step-by-step mitigation recommendations to address identified weaknesses

    • Automated reporting: Generate compliance-ready reports for security leadership, auditors, and regulators with ease

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    Automated security scans to complement self-assessments

    Get an overview of all your externally facing ‘assets,’ that pose security risks. This not only identifies IT systems or cloud services and their vulnerabilities, but also helps reveal unintentionally shared data, and expose impersonation websites used for phishing.

    We provide both passive and active scanning, and all scanned data can be used as input for IT inventory management and third party security risk management (TPsRM).

    Risk identification and management

    Our vCISO’s will provide a detailed overview of the elements that make up your internal cybersecurity risks, and those in your supply chain that can be exploited by hackers. Easy-to-understand security ratings offer you insight into the risks you need to address first, allowing you to quickly take the right action to mitigate risks internally and within your ecosystem.

    A risk management dashboard provides the ability to manage risks (accept, avoid, mitigate, transfer) while an archive of historical risks remains accessible and sharable with no end date.

     

     

     

    Share identified risks with your suppliers to improve your own security posture

    You can share security risk ratings securely with your critical suppliers, using this information as input for questionnaire-based audits and interact with the concerned suppliers to address, evidence, and resolve their cybersecurity risks. 

    You can also share questionnaire-based assessment conclusions and ratings, so they can quickly learn about your requirements, and make the necessary improvements. 

     

    Attack surface management FAQs

    What is attack surface management?

    Attack Surface Management (ASM) is the continuous process of discovering, monitoring, assessing, and reducing an organisation’s exposed digital assets and security vulnerabilities. ASM identifies internet-facing systems, cloud assets, shadow IT, exposed services, and misconfigurations before attackers can exploit them.

     

    Why is attack surface management important?

    As organisations adopt cloud platforms, remote working, SaaS applications, and third-party services, their attack surface grows. Many businesses struggle to maintain visibility of all their exposed assets, which increases the risk of cyberattacks, ransomware, data breaches, and compliance failures. ASM provides continuous visibility and proactive risk reduction to strengthen overall cybersecurity posture.

    What types of assets can ASM identify?

    Attack surface management tools discover:

    • Cloud assets and workloads
    • Internet-facing servers
    • Domains and subdomains
    • APIs and web applications
    • SaaS applications
    • Open ports and services
    • Shadow IT systems
    • Misconfigured cloud storage
    • Third-party connected systems
    • Forgotten or unmanaged infrastructure

    Comprehensive asset discovery is essential because organizations often have unknown assets that traditional security tools fail to monitor.

    What are the benefits of attack surface management?

    Organisations implementing ASM benefit from:

    • Improved visibility into exposed assets
    • Faster identification of vulnerabilities
    • Reduced cyber risk exposure
    • Better cloud security posture
    • Detection of shadow IT
    • Stronger compliance readiness
    • Prioritized remediation workflows
    • Enhanced incident prevention
    • Improved security operations efficiency

    ASM also helps security teams focus on the most critical exposures first using risk-based prioritisation.

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