Despite the various benefits delivered for organization, digital transformation also triggers the development of attack surfaces rapidly. Therefore, an important part that should not be missed in digital transformation is of course building a cybersecurity strategy which includes attack surface risk management.
Attack surface risk management is critical because it helps companies to identify and mitigate potential entry points for cyberattacks. By continuously discovering, assessing and mitigating vulnerabilities and risks across the IT ecosystem, companies can improve their security posture and resilience to cyber threats. You want that for your company, right?
Well, if you don't know clearly what attack surface risk management is and how its advantages can improve the company's cyber security and resilience posture, then you are in the right place. Let's take a look!
What is Attack Surface Risk Management?
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Attack Surface Risk Management (ASRM) is a proactive and comprehensive approach that involves the continuous discovery, assessment and mitigation of all potential attack vectors and vulnerabilities across the enterprise IT ecosystem, including known, unknown, internal and external assets.
ASRM evaluates security gaps from an attacker's perspective, using a variety of tools and techniques to imitate their methods and mindset. More than just finding and tracking assets, the solution also assesses and mitigates risks including potential risks arising from people, process, and technology.
In addition, ASRM also considers external factors that can affect organizational security, such as threat actors, attack methods, industry trends, and various related regulations. By implementing ASRM practices, companies have the ability to take a more holistic view of the attack surface, enabling them to take proactive measures to mitigate it.
Why is Attack Surface Risk Management (ASRM) a crucial process for protecting organizations from cyberattacks?
As more companies adopt cloud-native approaches to support employees and improve customer service, and the number of connected devices is expected to rise to 55.9 billion by 2025, new vulnerabilities are emerging that could become easy targets for cybercriminals. No wonder the attack surface has also increased significantly.
And the widening attack surface has introduced new complexities, often leaving security operations teams at a disadvantage; reacting to events and struggling to control their impact.
With ASRM proactively empowering functional collaboration across IT and cybersecurity operations, it will not only reduce silo visibility while improving detection and response to various cyber threats, but also enable CIOs and CSOs to more easily understand, communicate and mitigate risks across the enterprise.
Trend Micro™ Risk Insights measures risk from vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, asset criticality, XDR, anomalies, and cloud activity
• Complete Coverage: Risk, attack, exposure index, and trends track attack pressure, impact, and misconfigurations
• Custom experience: Dashboards streamline CISO, CIO, SecOps, and IT security
• Security excellence: Reporting elevates risk management and maps investments to goals
Trend Micro Vision One in Attack Surface Risk Management
With the rapid increase in the attack surface, the need for the ability to recognize and sort out the potential risks of threats to cybersecurity is becoming increasingly important. Enterprise cybersecurity teams clearly need an ASRM solution that can provide the ability for them to continuously monitor their cybersecurity posture while helping them to uncover various potential risks so that they can make the right decisions regarding the various steps that must be taken to protect the security of the company's IT ecosystem.
One of ASRM's solutions that offers such capabilities is Trend Micro Vision One which features Trend Micro Risk Insights. Here's a brief explanation of the importance of Risk Insights:
SOC/Security teams
Risk Insights helps the SOC or security team to discover undiscovered risks and gain insight into what should receive priority attention. All potential risks can be seen, starting from users, devices and applications and even at the enterprise level.
CSO/Leadership
Risk Insights helps CSOs, CIOs, and top-level management understand the company's security posture, whether it is improving or deteriorating, and gain visibility into how it compares to peers in the industry, region, or enterprise scale.
Network security
Risk Insights assists the network security to incorporate health scores into access control solutions and make more informed automated decisions when following a zero-trust strategy
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Why Should You use Attack Surface Risk Management from Trend Micro Vision One?
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As ASRM solutions, Trend Micro Vision One offers a number of benefits designed to help companies build cyber resilience. Here's a list of the benefits offered by Trend Micro Vision One:
Actionable attack surface discovery, assessment, and risk mitigation
This benefit can be obtained by companies because the Trend Micro Vision One solution is equipped with the ability to:
Measure overall risk
Trend Micro™ Risk Insights measures risk from vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, asset criticality, XDR, anomalies, and cloud activity:
Complete Coverage: Risk, attack, exposure index, and trends track attack pressure, impact, and misconfigurations
Custom experience: Dashboards streamline CISO, CIO, SecOps, and IT security
Security excellence: Reporting elevates risk management and maps investments to goals
Build business resilience
Trend Micro Vision One combines risk management, XDR, and zero-trust architecture to help businesses realize their goals, namely being able to have resilience from various cyber threats, especially the attack surface so that businesses can be more efficient in terms of cybersecurity budgets and ensure business sustainability.
Unprecedented attack surface visibility
Trend Micro Vision One delivers offers visibility and accurate, up-to-date inventory. This is made possible by Trend Micro Attack Surface Discovery technology that pinpoints users, internet-connected domains, IPs, cloud applications, cloud storage, containers, and workloads across the internet and internal corporate networks.
Continuous Risk Assessment and Prioritization
Trend Micro Vision One offers intuitive risk assessment, analysis, and prioritization surface real-time dashboard updates – from individual asset risk scores to detection dates – on all digital assets.
Learn More About How Trend Micro Vision One Can Better Secure Your Organization's Assets with Virtus
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It's time to enhance your business resilience with Trend Micro Vision One, a powerful and trusted platform. Ranked as the no. 1 ASRM solution selected by 59 top companies worldwide, Trend Micro Vision One will help you automate and organize workflows across all IT environments while simplifying and enhancing business security systems.
Virtus Technology Indonesia (VTI) as Trend Micro authorized partner in Indonesia, will help you implement Trend Micro Vision One quickly and securely according to your business needs. Virtus' experienced, certified and competent IT team will ensure that all processes from consulting, deployment, management and after-sales support run smoothly to avoid trial and error. Interested in finding out more about Trend Micro Vision One? Contact us by clicking here.
Writer:
Tri Joko Susilo
Content Writer CTI Group
