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2024 Gartner® innovation insight: Attack surface management
- Attack Surface Management
- Exposure Management
- Tenable One
“Improving asset visibility enables organizations to avoid blind spots and unmanaged technology (such as “shadow IT”), thus strengthening their security posture and supporting more comprehensive risk management.”– Innovation Insight: Attack Surface Management - April 2024 Gartner®
Your expanding attack surface is hiding risks you can’t see.
As organizations expand across hybrid environments — from cloud to OT/IoT and beyond — a growing attack surface and misconfigurations are becoming the hidden entryways for attackers to exploit. Disconnected assets, excessive exposures, and siloed visibility expose critical gaps in security.
The need for enterprises to deal with a growing attack surface is driving the importance and adoption of External Attack Surface Management (EASM) technologies as a foundational piece for Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). Without strong attack surface hygiene, these risks only multiply as your digital footprint grows to scale with the business.
In our understanding, you’ll learn how Attack Surface Management (ASM) is important for:
- Strengthening visibility into attack surface risks like external, internal, end-user, digital, and cloud assets, including from operational technology (OT)/Internet of Things (IoT) environments.
- Aligning security operations and risk ownership to close dangerous gaps by expanding ASM to support different stages of continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) programs for visibility and risk prioritization.
- Building a proactive program that continuously reduces your attack surface by deploying EASM as an integrated feature of broader threat exposure management solutions.
Source: Gartner, Innovation Insight: Attack Surface Management. : Mitch Schneider, Pete Shoard, John Watts, 09 April 2024.
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