Contextualized Attack Surface Management (ASM) takes the traditional concept of ASM further by adding a layer of relevant context to the discovered assets and potential vulnerabilities. It's about moving beyond simply identifying all exposed assets and delving deeper into their importance, potential impact, and the threats they face within the organization's unique environment. This approach helps prioritize security efforts and focus on the areas that matter most.

Here's a breakdown of what makes Contextualized ASM distinct:

• Prioritization: It prioritizes assets and vulnerabilities based on their business criticality, data sensitivity, and potential organizational impact. 

• Threat-centric: It considers the organization's specific threat landscape, including the types of attackers likely to target them and their motivations. 

• Business Alignment: It aligns security efforts with business objectives, ensuring that resources are focused on protecting the most critical assets and enabling business operations. 

• Dynamic: It continuously adapts to changes in the threat landscape and the organization's environment, ensuring security efforts remain relevant and practical. 

By using Contextualized ASM, organizations can:

• Reduce risk: Focus on mitigating the most critical vulnerabilities and threats. 

• Improve efficiency: Optimize security resources and avoid wasting time on low-priority issues. 

• Enhance decision-making: Make informed decisions about security investments and strategies. 

• Increase agility: Respond quickly to changes in the threat landscape and the organization's environment. 

Overall, Contextualized ASM is a more mature and practical approach to managing attack surfaces, enabling organizations to take a proactive and targeted approach to cybersecurity. 

ThreatNG is exceptionally well-suited to provide Contextualized Attack Surface Management due to its comprehensive external discovery and assessment capabilities and ability to integrate internal context. This allows organizations to identify their external attack surface and prioritize vulnerabilities based on their organizational structure and relationships.

External Discovery and Assessment

ThreatNG's external discovery engine uses no internal connectors or agents and performs unauthenticated discovery to identify all internet-facing assets associated with an organization. This provides a comprehensive view of the attack surface from an external perspective. The platform then performs assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities and security risks. 

Examples of ThreatNG's External Assessment Capabilities:

• Subdomain Takeover Susceptibility: ThreatNG analyzes DNS records, SSL certificates, and other factors to identify subdomains vulnerable to takeover. This allows organizations to prioritize securing these subdomains and prevent attackers from hijacking them for malicious purposes.

• Data Leak Susceptibility: ThreatNG assesses the risk of data leaks by examining cloud and SaaS exposure, dark web presence, and domain intelligence. This helps organizations identify potential data leakage points and secure their sensitive information.

• Supply Chain & Third-Party Exposure: ThreatNG assesses the security posture of an organization's supply chain and third-party vendors by analyzing their domain intelligence, technology stack, and cloud and SaaS exposure. This helps organizations identify and mitigate risks associated with their external partners.

• Breach & Ransomware Susceptibility: ThreatNG evaluates the likelihood of a breach or ransomware attack by analyzing domain intelligence, dark web presence, sentiment, and financials. This allows organizations to prioritize patching vulnerabilities and implementing security controls to reduce risk.

Incorporating Internal Context

ThreatNG allows organizations to define entities, such as departments, subsidiaries, and third-party vendors, and associate them with specific assets and vulnerabilities. This enables organizations to better understand their attack surface in the context of their organizational structure and relationships.

For example, an organization can define all assets and vulnerabilities related to financial systems associated with an investigation. This allows the organization to prioritize securing these assets and vulnerabilities based on their criticality to the finance department's operations.

Reporting, Continuous Monitoring, and Investigation Modules

ThreatNG provides detailed reports, continuous monitoring, and powerful investigation modules to help organizations understand and respond to potential threats.

Reporting: ThreatNG offers a variety of reports, including executive summaries, technical reports, prioritized reports, security ratings, inventory reports, ransomware susceptibility reports, and U.S. SEC filings. These reports provide valuable insights into an organization's security posture and help prioritize remediation efforts.

Continuous Monitoring: ThreatNG monitors an organization's external attack surface, digital risk, and security ratings. This allows organizations to stay ahead of emerging threats and respond quickly to any changes in their security environment.

Investigation Modules: ThreatNG provides in-depth investigation modules that allow security teams to drill down into specific threats and vulnerabilities. These modules include:

• Domain Intelligence: Provides comprehensive information about a domain, including DNS records, email security, WHOIS data, subdomain analysis, and associated technologies.

• Sensitive Code Exposure: Identifies exposed code repositories and analyzes their contents for sensitive data, such as API keys, access tokens, and database credentials. 

• Cloud and SaaS Exposure: Evaluates the security of cloud services and SaaS applications, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and various SaaS providers. 

• Dark Web Presence: Monitors the dark web for mentions of the organization, associated ransomware events, and compromised credentials.

Intelligence Repositories and Complementary Solutions

ThreatNG maintains extensive intelligence repositories, including information on dark web activities, compromised credentials, ransomware events, known vulnerabilities, ESG violations, etc. This rich data helps ThreatNG provide tailored intelligence and prioritize critical threats.

ThreatNG also integrates with complementary solutions to enhance its capabilities and provide a more comprehensive security solution. For example, ThreatNG can integrate with security information and event management (SIEM) systems, threat intelligence platforms (TIPs), and vulnerability scanners to provide a more holistic view of an organization's security posture.

Examples of ThreatNG Helping and Working with Complementary Solutions:

• ThreatNG can identify a vulnerable web application and provide detailed information about the vulnerability to a SIEM system, which can then generate an alert and trigger automated response actions.

• ThreatNG can identify a compromised credential on the dark web and share this information with a TIP, which can then correlate it with other threat intelligence and provide context for security analysts.

• ThreatNG can identify an exposed cloud bucket and provide this information to a vulnerability scanner to assess the bucket's security configuration and identify any misconfigurations.

By incorporating internal context, ThreatNG provides a more contextualized view of the attack surface, enabling organizations to prioritize their security efforts based on their specific organizational structure and relationships. This allows organizations to focus on the most critical assets and vulnerabilities and reduce risk.