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What is Attack Surface Management?

H2: What is Attack Surface Management? Your organization’s digital footprint has been continuously increasing across cloud spaces, IoT devices, APIs, and third-party integrations. Each new link has the potential to widen your attack surface, increasing the risk of cyber threats. PlutoSec provides the Attack Surface Management (ASM) service, which gives you visibility of risk internet-facing assets, shadow IT, and other risk areas. We detect, classify, and track your exposure to risk and provide you with a balance of breach avoidance and responsive breach containment. If your organization has a complex cloud environment, a distributed enterprise network, or both, our ASM services allow your security teams to:

Identify the unknown and uncleared assets within the organization

Track for misconfigured assets, non-closed ports, and invalid

Track exposed APIs, cloud services, and third-party integrations

Remediation activities to threats based on exploitability in the real world.

Why Businesses Need Attack Surface Management

Identify Hidden Exposures

Organizations' use of cloud technologies, remote work opportunities, and interconnected systems broadens their digital footprint, often beyond what their internal staff can monitor. ASM (Attack Surface Management) uncovers every exposed asset, subdomain, and service that can be attacked. Unlike one-time discovery, continuous discovery gives you visibility into shadow and managed IT assets well before they turn into vulnerabilities.

Strengthen Cyber Resilience

The public-facing systems of an organization may have many unaddressed vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and leaked credentials that may be exploited every day. ASM helps you defend against these negative circumstances by continuously scanning your perimeter for potential breaches. Incorporating ASM into your penetration testing and vulnerability management program initiatives greatly enhances your adaptive cyber resilience.

Support Continuous Penetration Testing

ASM provides real-time awareness of external changes to complement traditional, periodic penetration testing. This means that between pen test cycles, no new endpoint, API, or cloud service goes unmonitored. It connects the vulnerability discovery phase to continuous testing, aiding teams in risk prioritization.

Reduce Exposure to Emerging Threats

Missed opportunities are a gift to attackers. ASM exposes unsecured databases and orphaned servers, identifies expired certificates and insecure ports, and reveals other weak areas that are vulnerable to ransomware and supply chain attacks. By containing these exposures, the business eliminates attack vectors and defends its operational integrity from lateral movement.

Enable Data-Driven Security Decisions

ASM provides security teams with actionable intelligence, moving beyond simple alerts. Context-driven insights and risk scoring allow security teams to prioritize business-critical asset remediation. Integration of ASM with SIEM and threat intelligence systems converts fragmented datasets into cohesive assessments of an organization's defensive posture.

Maintain Regulatory and Security Compliance

ISO 27001, NIST CSF, and GDPR all highlight the importance of having eyes on the assets and continuous risk evaluation. ASM acts as the evidence and visibility required to achieve compliance and supports the proactive oversight of governance, security, and audit preparedness.

How We Reduce and Secure Your Attack Surface

At PlutoSec, we are proactive and systematic in Attack Surface Management (ASM). Giving organizations complete control and visibility over all exposed, forgotten, unknown, or hidden assets is a step we build on progressively. We then automate the discovery processes, deploy threat intelligence, and add human analysis for a continuous, prioritized analysis of exposed entry points by business risk and exploitability.

We take the necessary steps for your attack surface to be minimally exposed, actively secure, and constantly monitored. It is a positive action for your security team, without risk of striking back from potential attackers.

We perform a comprehensive digital footprint discovery first. We then identify all the publicly exposed assets, the domains, IP ranges, cloud instances, APIs, IoT devices, and even the potential hidden exploitable assets. This will help us reveal exposed or exposed assets that could be exploited.

A risk analysis underpinned by threat vectors is then processed. This vessel assesses attack surface configuration, patch levels, and exposure holes to document the key exploitable assets. The first step is a robust control measure, underpinned by threat exposure, business criticality, severity, and aligned potential business impact. This control measure enables barely exposed assets to be processed first and your organization to expose the assets that matter the most.

Frictionless and continuous monitoring is to be done next. This will be done via advanced toolsets that we then integrate into our proprietary systems. New exposures that are being applied to your assets are to be discarded within seconds with real, validated, provable, controlled mitigation tasks.

Ultimately, our specialists provide a remediation roadmap based on the unique characteristics of your organization. This roadmap outlines actionable steps, security controls, and continual enhancement plans that improve your cyber resilience and lower your external attack surface over time.

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Our Comprehensive Range of Attack Surface Management Services

External Asset Discovery

We perform continuous discovery of all your internet-facing assets, which include domains, subdomains, IPs, APIs, and cloud resources, to find unmanaged or forgotten systems. Such comprehensive discovery facilitates the very first step of Attack Surface Management so that no exposure remains invisible.

Shadow IT Detection

PlutoSec assists you in identifying systems that are not formally sanctioned or controlled IT systems that lie outside your corporate perimeter. These unmanaged assets are known as Shadow IT, and their identification and control help in the reduction of your attack surface and the improvement of your cyber resilience.

Cloud Exposure Assessment

Examining your cloud exposure entails scanning your cloud environments for public storage buckets, similarly configured instances, and faulty access controls. Identifying and prioritizing potential data loss and exposure, cloud attack surface monitoring focuses on monitoring and prioritizing cloud attack surface exposures.

Continuous Attack Surface Monitoring

Ongoing monitoring attack surface. Our monitoring tools in real time follow and track every asset alteration made in your framework. Any new exposures or misconfigurations will be corrected and reported in real time, and direct notifications to your security teams to empower continuous vulnerability awareness.

Third-Party Risk Mapping

Your vendors and integrations enlarge your digital footprint. PlutoSec assesses third parties' attack surfaces so external dependencies won't become your weakest link. We provide visibility for your entire supply chain ecosystem.

Vulnerability Detection & Prioritization

We extend the standard scanning approach. Our assessment of attack surfaces looks at the value and business impact of exploitable attack vectors. Thus, your teams can focus on fixing the most critical issues and thereby protect your external defense posture.

Exposure Intelligence & Dark Web Monitoring

Employees from PlutoSec track dark web forums and monitor credential dumps and exposed data sources tied to your assets. This exposed data intelligence allows you to monitor and track emerging threats before they infiltrate your company.

Configuration & Policy Validation

Insecure configuration of firewalls, DNS records, SSL certificates, and network policies is not sufficient. In order to comply with your policies tailored to your attack surface, validation checks must be conducted to ensure alignment with best practices and industry standards.

Automated Reporting & Analytics

The ASM platform generates automated reports containing information that illustrates newly detected exposures and resolved risks, as well as trends over a historical span. These insightful analytics facilitate your team’s decision-making and enable the monitoring of actionable enhancements in the organization’s security posture.

Remediation Support & Continuous Improvement

The relationship does not close with detection. PlutoSec’s dedicated approach is to assist in the tailored remediation of vulnerabilities to help reduce the risky exposures and to reinforce your attack surface over a sustained period. This, in turn, would assist in the cybersecurity strategy that you have intended.

Why Choose PlutoSec as Your Attack Surface Management Partner?

Proactively Uncover, Monitor, and Eliminate Cyber Exposures

PlutoSec integrates mastery and cutting-edge innovation to provide organizations with complete visibility into their digital footprint. Our Attack Surface Management (ASM) service encompasses more than asset discovery. It offers continuous monitoring, threat intelligence, and prioritized remediation support, empowering your team to mitigate cyber risk at scale.

Our certified cybersecurity experts are working with businesses of all sizes to discern and detect externally facing cyber vulnerabilities and blind spots and deliver discernible outcomes within their cybersecurity maturity. With PlutoSec, you have formed risk-positioned partnerships.

Owning your cyber perimeter under unrelieved evolving threats. PlutoSec's ASM methodology integrates automation, analytics, and human intuition and enables you to uncover exposures often escaped by conventional cyber vulnerability management solutions. Your cyber maturity will benefit from our analysts, who use cyber threat data and real-time cyber attack surface monitoring to provide you with complete visibility of your externally facing cyber assets.

Every cybersecurity discovery is actionable and improves your organization’s security strategy. Compliance and business objectives drive our tailoring of your engagements against cyber threats.

Generic ASM tools focus on obsolete cyber risk management and their defunct early warning systems. Our solution offers proactive risk management.

Our differentiation is driven by a commitment to continuous improvement—refining our attack detection systems and adapting to new cyber threat handlers and exposure models. With PlutoSec, you do not simply administer your attack surface; you protect your future.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Get answers to common questions about our cybersecurity services and how we can protect your business.

1.What is Attack Surface Management (ASM)?

Attack Surface Management (ASM) is a proactive strategy in cybersecurity designed to consistently locate, track, and analyze all of an organization’s internet-facing assets and digital exposures. Identifying unknown, overlooked, or compromised systems and attackers exploiting configurations and gaps is a core function in the maintenance of the ASM function. ASM complements penetration testing and vulnerability management, providing continuous oversight and command of the external attack surface.

2.Why is Attack Surface Management important for modern businesses?

With the use of cloud platforms, Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, and third-party integrations, the digital footprint of an organization expands at a rapid pace and, oftentimes, stretches beyond the reach of internal security teams. Attack Surface Management makes sure you know precisely what is exposed to the internet. It helps to prevent data breaches, misconfigured security controls, and exposed credentials. It also strengthens your organization’s cyber resilience by decreasing an attacker’s available options to breach your organization.

3.How does Attack Surface Management differ from Penetration Testing?

Unlike penetration testing, which identifies system vulnerabilities based on simulating opportunistic attacks at predetermined intervals, Attack Surface Management (ASM) is continuous. ASM encompasses real-time exposure discovery, risk detection, and monitoring, providing notifications on emerging risk exposures. Together, these approaches close the Attack Surface. ASM ensures continuous exposure visibility, whereas pen testing provides visibility for deep exploit testing..

4.What types of assets can Attack Surface Management detect?

Attack Surface Management tools and specialists can identify: Domains and their subdomains Cloud instances (AWS, Azure, GCP) APIs, web applications, and external partnerships Exposed ports, services, and databases Misconfigured DNS, SSL, or certificates Shadow IT or rogue deployments In other words, organizations obtain a continuous monitor of their external attack surface, mapped to external assets, telemetry, and risk indicators.

5.How does PlutoSec’s Attack Surface Management service work?

Utilizing automated discovery resources and expert validation, PlutoSec’s ASM process conducts detailed digital footprint mapping as the first step. All of your publicly available assets are identified and mapped. Our analysts oversee these assets and notify your team of possible threats, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and emerging threats needing attention. We also provide remediation guidance to greatly improve the tracked security posture over time.

6.How often should Attack Surface Management be performed?

Attack Surface Management operates continuously, unlike periodic testing. It runs 24/7, constantly updating your asset inventory and risk map, so there are no gaps as your environment changes. Newly deployed services, APIs, and cloud configurations are recognized and evaluated immediately, greatly reducing the risk of exploitation by adversaries.

7.Does Attack Surface Management help with compliance?

Indeed, ASM supports compliance with ISO 27001, NIST CSF, GDPR, and SOC 2 by continuously maintaining a current record of assets, ongoing risk evaluation, and documenting relevant mitigation actions. Such visibility enables compliance with legal and audit obligations regarding asset management and the control of vulnerabilities.

8.How does ASM integrate with existing security tools?

PlutoSec’s ASM solution is equipped with SIEM, SOAR, orchestrated, consolidated threat intelligence engines, and vulnerability scanners, enhancing alert enrichment, false positive reduction, and consolidated workflow efficiency. This results in more rapid and better comparative contextual and cross-silo decision-making throughout your cybersecurity ecosystem.

9.What industries benefit most from Attack Surface Management?

ASM is vital for sectors with considerable dynamic or regulatory environments, such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Energy, SaaS, Manufacturing, and Government. Organizations with sensitive data or hybrid IT environments benefit from continuous exposure monitoring.

10.How does PlutoSec ensure continuous protection against emerging threats?

Automating the updating of detection models by combining automation with human expertise and threat intelligence is what PlutoSec does. All threats stemming from new vulnerabilities and leaked credentials are monitored by our analysts, along with trends in dark web exposure and attack surface evolution, so that we can ensure that your attack surface remains secure.