External Attack Surface Management (EASM)
ThreatNG EASM: Unveiling Your Organization's Complete External Attack Surface
ThreatNG External Attack Surface Management (EASM) offers an unmatched level of visibility and control over your organization's digital footprint. By leveraging a comprehensive suite of discovery, assessment, monitoring, and reporting facilities, ThreatNG EASM goes beyond traditional EASM solutions. It delves into cloud implementation vulnerabilities (open buckets), code repository checks, online sentiment and financial assessments, dark web monitoring, and more. It provides a 360-degree view of potential security risks across web applications, cloud platforms, and the supply chain. This holistic approach empowers organizations to manage their external attack surface and prevent cyberattacks proactively.
See Your Entire Attack Surface: ThreatNG EASM Unifies External Risk Management
Proactive Threat Identification and Risk Management
ThreatNG EASM empowers your security teams by going beyond identifying vulnerabilities in your external attack surface. It analyzes various data points to identify potential attack vectors proactively and prioritizes risks based on severity and potential impact. This capability enables your teams to focus on the most critical threats and take decisive action, instilling a sense of control and ability to manage the overall security posture of the organization and its supply chain.
Unified Threat Landscape View and Actionable Insights
ThreatNG EASM is your comprehensive security companion. It gathers data from various sources and consolidates it into a unified view of your external attack surface. This provides a holistic understanding of potential security risks, instilling a sense of security by making you fully aware of the threats. It allows security teams to identify hidden connections and vulnerabilities across the ecosystem. ThreatNG EASM doesn't just report on vulnerabilities; it provides actionable recommendations on mitigating identified risks and improving your security posture.
Improved Decision-Making and Collaboration
ThreatNG EASM is not just a tool; it's a team player. It fosters collaboration and empowers organizations to make informed decisions regarding their external attack surface. It delivers the right information to the right people at the right time through features like role-based access control and dynamically generated Correlation Evidence Questionnaires (CEQs). This ensures everyone is working towards the same goals and utilizing the same information, fostering a sense of teamwork and unity, leading to more streamlined workflows and a more collaborative and effective security program.
Discover and Inventory
Seeing Beyond the Obvious: ThreatNG EASM Discovers Hidden Attack Vectors in Your Extended Ecosystem
ThreatNG EASM shines in its ability to discover even the most obscure facets of your organization's external online environment, encompassing third parties and your supply chain. This comprehensive discovery function empowers organizations to gain complete visibility, identify and address hidden risks, and ultimately make informed decisions to secure their entire digital ecosystem.
Uncovering Hidden Assets and Attack Vectors: ThreatNG EASM uses many techniques to discover all your organization's external-facing assets. This includes forgotten subdomains, shadow IT (unauthorized software or cloud services), and misconfigured cloud buckets. By identifying these hidden assets, ThreatNG EASM exposes potential attack vectors that traditional security solutions might miss. This empowers organizations to close these gaps and improve their overall security posture proactively.
Enhanced Third-Party and Supply Chain Risk Management: Many cyberattacks target organizations through weaknesses in their supply chain. ThreatNG EASM discovers and assesses the external attack surface of your third-party vendors and partners. This provides valuable insights into potential risks associated with your supply chain, allowing you to make informed decisions about vendor selection and implement risk mitigation strategies.
Continuous Discovery for Improved Security Visibility: The external online environment constantly changes. ThreatNG EASM's continuous discovery capabilities ensure you stay ahead of the curve. It continuously scans for new assets, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations, providing up-to-date visibility into your attack surface. This allows for faster response times to emerging threats and maintains a strong security posture.
Assess and Examine
See It All, Secure It All: ThreatNG EASM's Assessments for a Fortified External Attack Surface
By going beyond basic security assessments, ThreatNG EASM delivers a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of your organization's external online environment, encompassing third parties and your supply chain. This thorough assessment gives organizations a critical advantage: a comprehensive understanding of their external attack surface. With this knowledge, ThreatNG EASM proactively identifies and prioritizes threats, enabling organizations to take decisive action and improve their overall security posture.
Unified Threat Landscape View: ThreatNG EASM gathers data from various sources, including domain intelligence, cloud exposure assessments, SaaS implementations, and online chatter. This data is then consolidated into a unified view of your external attack surface, providing a holistic understanding of potential security risks. Security teams can identify hidden connections and vulnerabilities across the entire ecosystem, ensuring no entry points are overlooked.
Proactive Risk Identification and Prioritization: ThreatNG EASM doesn't wait for breaches to occur. It proactively identifies potential attack vectors and vulnerabilities by analyzing various data points. Additionally, ThreatNG EASM prioritizes risks based on severity and potential impact. This empowers security teams to focus on the most critical threats, optimizing remediation efforts and resource allocation.
Actionable Insights for Improved Security Posture: ThreatNG EASM assessments go beyond identifying vulnerabilities. They provide actionable recommendations on how to mitigate identified risks. This empowers security teams to take immediate action to strengthen defenses and improve the overall security posture of the organization and its supply chain.
Report and Share
Beyond Information, Beyond Reports: ThreatNG EASM Empowers Data-Driven Security Decisions
ThreatNG EASM goes beyond basic reporting, transforming vast data into actionable insights. This empowers organizations to comprehensively understand their external attack surface, including third parties and the supply chain. These superior reporting features don't just inform; they empower effective risk prioritization and data-driven decisions, ultimately improving your security posture.
Contextualized Risk Prioritization: ThreatNG EASM doesn't just report on vulnerabilities; it correlates data from various sources like online sentiment analysis, code exposure checks, and dark web monitoring to provide context. This allows for risk prioritization based on severity and potential impact. Security teams can first focus on the most critical issues, optimizing remediation efforts and resource allocation.
Actionable Threat Intelligence for Improved Decision-Making: ThreatNG EASM reports go beyond primary findings. They provide actionable recommendations based on identified risks, empowering security leaders to make informed decisions about resource allocation, prioritize security investments, and implement effective mitigation strategies.
Stakeholder-Specific Reports for Enhanced Collaboration: ThreatNG EASM offers a suite of reports tailored to different audiences. Executives can access high-level summaries with key risk indicators, while detailed technical reports provide security teams with the information they need to take action. This facilitates clear communication and collaboration across departments, ensuring everyone is aligned on the organization's security posture.
Continuous Visibility
See It All, Secure It All: ThreatNG EASM's Assessments for a Fortified External Attack Surface
By going beyond basic security assessments, ThreatNG EASM delivers a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of your organization's external online environment, encompassing third parties and your supply chain. This thorough assessment gives organizations a critical advantage: a comprehensive understanding of their external attack surface. With this knowledge, ThreatNG EASM proactively identifies and prioritizes threats, enabling organizations to take decisive action and improve their overall security posture.
Unified Threat Landscape View: ThreatNG EASM gathers data from various sources, including domain intelligence, cloud exposure assessments, SaaS implementations, and online chatter. This data is then consolidated into a unified view of your external attack surface, providing a holistic understanding of potential security risks. Security teams can identify hidden connections and vulnerabilities across the entire ecosystem, ensuring no entry points are overlooked.
Proactive Risk Identification and Prioritization: ThreatNG EASM doesn't wait for breaches to occur. It proactively identifies potential attack vectors and vulnerabilities by analyzing various data points. Additionally, ThreatNG EASM prioritizes risks based on severity and potential impact. This empowers security teams to focus on the most critical threats, optimizing remediation efforts and resource allocation.
Actionable Insights for Improved Security Posture: ThreatNG EASM assessments go beyond identifying vulnerabilities. They provide actionable recommendations on how to mitigate identified risks. This empowers security teams to take immediate action to strengthen defenses and improve the overall security posture of the organization and its supply chain.
Collaborate and Manage
From Siloed to Unified: ThreatNG EASM Fosters Collaboration and Informed Security Decisions
ThreatNG EASM empowers organizations to make informed decisions and foster collaboration regarding their external attack surface. This is achieved through a powerful combination of features. First, role-based access control (RBAC) and unified policy management ensure consistent enforcement of security policies across the entire organization and supply chain, effectively reducing risk. Additionally, ThreatNG EASM delivers the right information to the right people at the right time. This empowers informed decision-making at all levels and fosters collaboration across departments by ensuring everyone is working towards the same goals and utilizing the same information.
Role-Based Access Control
Streamlined Workflows with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): ThreatNG EASM uses RBAC, ensuring stakeholders can access the information they need while safeguarding sensitive data. Security teams can delve into technical details, while executives receive high-level summaries. This promotes clear communication and streamlined workflows across departments. Everyone has the correct information to make informed decisions within their area of responsibility.
Correlation Evidence Questionnaires
Actionable Insights through Dynamically Generated Correlation Evidence Questionnaires (CEQs): ThreatNG EASM goes beyond basic questionnaires. Its CEQs are dynamically generated based on identified risks. This ensures stakeholders ask the right questions to gather the most relevant information for accurate risk assessment and mitigation strategies. Security teams can focus on the most critical aspects without getting bogged down in irrelevant details, while leadership receives a clear picture of the overall security posture.
Policy Management
Unified Policy Management for Consistent Risk Reduction: ThreatNG EASM allows organizations to define and enforce consistent security policies across their entire external attack surface, including third-party vendors and the supply chain. This centralized approach streamlines risk management and ensures everyone is aligned on security protocols. Standardized policies minimize confusion and potential gaps in security posture, leading to a more collaborative and effective security program.
Seeing the Full Picture: ThreatNG EASM for Comprehensive External Attack Surface Management
ThreatNG EASM offers a holistic approach to external attack surface management (EASM) beyond mere discovery scanning and provides a comprehensive view of potential security risks across all digital presence areas. This empowers organizations to proactively manage their external attack surface and mitigate cyber threats before they can exploit vulnerabilities.
Domain Intelligence
DNS, Subdomain, Certificate, and IP Intelligence: ThreatNG EASM goes beyond simply identifying domains. It delves into the details, uncovering subdomains, certificates, and IP addresses associated with the organization, third parties, and the supply chain. This provides a holistic view of the entire attack surface.
Exposed API and Development Environment Discovery: ThreatNG EASM identifies publicly accessible APIs and development environments, potential entry points for attackers.
VPN Discovery, Application Discovery, and Known Vulnerability Scans: It finds exposed VPNs, applications, and known vulnerabilities across the attack surface, enabling remediation efforts to be prioritized.
Cloud and SaaS Exposure
Cloud Service Scrutiny: ThreatNG EASM identifies sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud services, potential impersonations, and open cloud buckets, providing a clear picture of the cloud landscape.
SaaS Implementation Discovery: It identifies various SaaS applications the organization uses, such as CRM, CMS, or marketing tools, assessing their potential security risks.
Sensitive Code Exposure
Discovers public code repositories containing passwords, API keys, or configuration files that attackers could exploit.
Identifies mobile applications with security flaws.
Online Sharing Exposure
ThreatNG EASM investigates data-sharing platforms like Pastebin for leaks of sensitive information related to the organization.
Sentiment and Financials
Analyzes news, lawsuits, and financial filings to identify potential negative press or economic issues that attackers could exploit to damage the organization's reputation.
Archived Web Pages
ThreatNG EASM can analyze archived web pages for potential security risks, such as exposed credentials or outdated configurations.
Dark Web Presence
Identifies mentions of the organization on the dark web, potentially revealing leaked credentials, association with cyberattacks, or involvement in illegal activities.
Technology Stack
It creates an inventory of the organization's technologies, allowing for the identification of known vulnerabilities associated with specific software or platforms.
Search Engine Exploitation
Uncovers sensitive information unintentionally exposed through search engines, such as error messages, leaked credentials, or public cloud storage buckets.
Social Media
ThreatNG EASM goes beyond just identifying social media accounts. It analyzes content, hashtags, links, and tags, providing insights into potential security risks or public relations concerns.
From Technical Risks to Business Decisions: ThreatNG EASM Empowers Security Strategy
Traditional security assessments often present technical vulnerabilities in isolation, making it difficult for leaders to prioritize. ThreatNG EASM goes beyond this by providing superior business context. It translates technical risks into understandable implications for your organization, empowering businesses to make data-driven security decisions. This means prioritizing the protection of your most valuable assets and aligning security efforts with broader business objectives.
BEC & Phishing Susceptibility
This assessment is derived from an in-depth analysis considering sentiment and exposed employee credentials, domain intelligence, and dark web presence. By understanding which departments or individuals are most at risk based on these factors, you can implement targeted security awareness training and minimize the likelihood of successful attacks.
Brand Damage Susceptibility
ThreatNG EASM comprehensively assesses your organization's vulnerability to risks that could damage your brand. It factors in attack surface intelligence, digital risk intelligence related to ESG practices and financial health (including lawsuits, SEC filings, and negative news), sentiment analysis, and domain intelligence. It helps identify threats from phishing attacks and other social engineering techniques. This empowers proactive public relations efforts to mitigate potential damage and safeguard your brand reputation.
Breach & Ransomware Susceptibility
ThreatNG EASM' assessment includes an in-depth analysis of domain intelligence, exposed sensitive ports, known vulnerabilities, and even your dark web presence. By aggregating this intelligence, ThreatNG EASM provides a clear picture of your overall breach and ransomware risk level. This data-driven approach empowers you to prioritize remediation efforts and focus on the areas with the most significant impact, ultimately reducing the likelihood of a security breach or costly ransomware attack.
Cyber Risk Exposure
This assessment considers critical areas like Domain Intelligence, Code Secret Exposure (discovering and analyzing exposed code repositories for sensitive data), Cloud and SaaS Exposure (evaluating cloud services and SaaS solutions), and compromised credentials found on the dark web. This multi-faceted analysis accurately evaluates your organization's cyber risk exposure, empowering leadership to make data-driven decisions and proactively mitigate exploitable vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.
Data Leak Susceptibility
ThreatNG EASM gauges the probability of your organization's sensitive data being leaked by analyzing Cloud and SaaS Exposure. It reveals exposed cloud buckets, along with your Dark Web Presence and Domain Intelligence. This assessment empowers leadership to prioritize securing critical information and minimize the risk of costly breaches by providing a clear picture of these potential leak points.
ESG Exposure
ThreatNG EASM goes beyond sentiment analysis by incorporating financial health checks and publicly available information. It delves into specific areas like competition, consumer issues, employment practices, environmental impact, economic standing, government interactions, healthcare data security, and safety incidents. Providing a holistic view of these ESG risk factors empowers organizations to identify potential problems, assess compliance with regulations, and ultimately improve their overall ESG performance and reduce their exposure to reputational and financial risks.
Supply Chain & Third Party Exposure
Security vulnerabilities in your third-party ecosystem can pose a significant risk to your organization. ThreatNG EASM assesses the external attack surface of your third-party vendors, allowing you to identify and mitigate potential risks before they can impact your organization. This reduces the likelihood of disruptions to your operations and protects your reputation.
Subdomain Takeover Susceptibility
A compromised subdomain can be used for phishing attacks or malware distribution, damaging your brand reputation and potentially leading to customer data breaches. ThreatNG EASM identifies takeover susceptibility for subdomains hosting sensitive information or supporting business-critical functionalities. This ensures leadership prioritizes securing these assets to minimize reputational and financial losses.
Web Application Hijack Susceptibility
Understanding the business context of a potential web application hijack is critical. ThreatNG EASM assesses the hijack susceptibility of mission-critical applications. This allows leadership to prioritize remediation efforts based on potential disruption to revenue streams, customer service, or other essential business functions.
Seeing the Bigger Picture: ThreatNG EASM's Intelligence Repositories Fortify Your Security Posture
ThreatNG EASM offers a superior assessment of your external online environment by leveraging a comprehensive suite of intelligence repositories. These repositories, encompassing dark web data, ESG violation tracking, and ransomware event monitoring, paint a holistic view of your organization's threats and extended ecosystem. This empowers proactive risk mitigation strategies and data-driven security decisions, leading to a more secure and resilient business environment.
Dark Web
Many attackers use the dark web to buy and sell stolen credentials, exploit kits, and leak sensitive information. ThreatNG EASM monitors the dark web for mentions of your organization, including compromised credentials, leaked data, and discussions of planned attacks. This allows for early detection of potential threats and proactive mitigation strategies, minimizing the risk of successful attacks and data breaches.
ESG Violations
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) violations related to data security can damage your brand reputation and lead to regulatory fines. ThreatNG EASM scans relevant data sources to identify ESG violations associated with any organization's security practices. This empowers proactive measures to address these issues and maintain a positive ESG image, enhancing investor confidence and customer trust.
Ransomware Events
Staying informed about the latest ransomware threats and attack tactics is crucial for effective defense. ThreatNG EASM analyzes data on documented ransomware events and chatter within criminal communities. This allows you to identify emerging trends and proactively implement security measures that mitigate the risk of similar attacks on your organization.
Compromised Credentials
Exposed usernames and passwords can be used to gain unauthorized access to your systems. ThreatNG EASM monitors the dark web and other sources for compromised credentials associated with your organization's domains or employees. Early detection of compromised credentials allows for immediate account lockouts and password resets, preventing attackers from exploiting these vulnerabilities.
Known Vulnerabilities
Unpatched vulnerabilities are a significant entry point for attackers. ThreatNG EASM maintains a continuously updated database of known vulnerabilities and scans your external attack surface to identify these weaknesses. This allows for prioritized patching efforts to address the most critical vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, minimizing the likelihood of successful cyberattacks.
Bank Identification Numbers (BINs)
Imagine a disgruntled employee uploads a confidential customer list containing credit card information to a publicly accessible cloud storage bucket. ThreatNG EASM's Online Sharing Exposure Investigation Module shines in situations like this. By leveraging its BIN identification capabilities, ThreatNG EASM can scan the exposed data for BINs associated with your organization's credit card processor. This immediate red flag can trigger alerts and investigations, allowing you to swiftly contain the leak, minimize potential financial losses, and potentially identify the culprit.
External Attack Surface Management (EASM) Use Cases
Delve into the various use cases for EASM and how it can benefit your organization's security posture. With cyber threats evolving constantly, it's critical to have a clear understanding of your organization's attack surface and potential vulnerabilities that may exist. At ThreatNG, we specialize in providing advanced solutions for EASM, and we're thrilled to share our knowledge with you. Our platform offers powerful features to help you identify and mitigate potential threats, manage third-party risks, and ensure regulatory compliance. So, click through to learn more about how the ThreatNG Security Platform can help you safeguard your organization against external threats.