When Armis was founded in late 2015, our focus area was the fact that Bad Actors see your IoT and IT environments as one interconnected stack, making comprehensive visibility into every device in your environment a critical need. By discovering all devices in the environment, on or off the network, we can see and secure all assets within your organization.
More recently, the term attack surface has evolved into the sum of different attack vectors an unauthorized user can use to breach a network or system. The best way to think of an attack vector is the method, path, or scenario that a cyberattacker can exploit to gain entry to a system. Examples of some common attack vectors include:
In return, those attack vectors can target different types of attack surfaces. Examples of an attack surface in cybersecurity:
By defining and managing your organization’s attack surface, you can help protect yourself and your team from an attacker breaching your network. Unfortunately, the siloed nature of security tools often results in a complex, fragmented landscape, with neither complete visibility nor a single source of trusted information. That’s why – still today – many organizations are stuck with isolated solutions, scattered dashboards and manual work which results in human errors or outdated data.
No! Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) is the technology focused on eliminating these asset visibility and exposure challenges. With CAASM you can achieve complete visibility over all your cyber assets, identify gaps in security faster, streamline manual processes to ultimately achieve the goal of being cyber resilient.
The Armis platform delivers on many foundational CAASM concepts:
CISOs know they have a data silo problem and CAASM solutions help to break them down, which leads to better management of the attack surface. In addition, having a single, consolidated asset view benefits multiple individuals and teams:
A CAASM platform ultimately overcomes the issues of siloed solutions and enables teams to quickly identify and remediate gaps – either manually or via automated workflows. With the right tools to deliver visibility in all cloud and on-prem environments, across all platforms, and for all assets and devices, you can increase awareness of the attack surface that needs to be protected.
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