Continuous External Attack Surface Management (EASM)
Build Accurate Asset Inventory, Discover Shadow Risks & Active Validation of Passive Risks
Build Accurate Asset Inventory, Discover Shadow Risks & Active Validation of Passive Risks
3 Major Challenges With Traditional Attack Surface Management
FireCompass Recon Platform continuously sends probes, captures banners, fingerprints services, and performs contextual attribution to identify assets related to the organization. The platform indexes domains, subdomains, IPs, services, service banners, web app pages, and public code in a searchable gigantic graph of entities and relations.
The FireCompass platform actively validates passive risks, ensuring an accurate inventory and risk assessment of up to 98%. This validation involves active fingerprinting and triggering vulnerabilities through active probing.
The FireCompass platform employs advanced attribution to discover peripheral assets and initiates Multi-Stage Hunting Playbooks, executing over 30,000 attacks and checks on your Network, Web, Cloud, and other assets through our geographically distributed sensor network. Additionally, the platform launches Continuous Risk Hunting Playbooks to identify critical risks within 24-72 hours and issues alerts.
The FireCompass platform employs advanced attribution on the deep, dark, and surface web to identify assets related to the organization. The FireCompass Recon Platform helps you:
FireCompass platform actively validates passive risks through fingerprinting, probing, and sending CVE-specific payloads, helping organizations eliminate false positives. The platform simulates adversaries to identify vulnerable assets.
FireCompass Active Validation & Risk Hunting Platform helps organizations in various ways:
Traditional ASM generates 60% noise in alerts. The FireCompass platform performs active validation, delivering 98% accurate alerts.
Identify exploitable CVEs, Shadow IT, and other critical risks within 24 hours to mitigate exposure to real attackers.
Continuously test your entire attack surface and receive alerts for any changes, including vulnerabilities, new ports, or other modifications to internet-facing infrastructure.
As Gartner puts it, “External attack surface management (EASM) refers to the processes, technology and managed services deployed to discover internet-facing enterprise assets and systems and associated vulnerabilities which include exposed servers, credentials, public cloud service misconfigurations, deep dark web disclosures and third-party partner software code vulnerabilities that could be exploited by adversaries. EASM provides valuable risk context and actionable information through: Monitoring continuously for exposed assets and asset discovery for external-facing assets and systems Analysis to assess and prioritize the risks and vulnerabilities discovered External attack surface management is a top priority for security teams and security risk managers.”
FireCompass prioritizes External Attack Surface Management efforts by first assessing the risk levels of existing attack surface areas, and then determining the most effective mitigation strategies for each. It then prioritizes the remediation of the highest-risk areas to reduce the overall attack surface. The process includes identifying and classifying attack surface assets, mapping the attack surface, analyzing and assessing risk, and implementing mitigation strategies. FireCompass also offers various advisories and recommendations to improve the effectiveness of attack surface management efforts.
An organization’s External attack surface management (EASM) refers to the processes, technology and managed services deployed to discover internet-facing enterprise assets/ systems and associated vulnerabilities like exposed servers, credentials, public cloud service misconfigurations, deep dark web disclosures that could be exploited by attackers. On the other hand the internal attack surface represents everything inside an organization’s network that employees use.
FireCompass automates External Attack Surface Management by providing a centralized platform to identify and prioritize external attack surfaces and vulnerabilities. It uses machine learning and advanced analytics to continuously monitor and scan the external attack surfaces and identify potential threats. It also provides detailed reporting and analytics to help organizations gain better insights into their attack surface and take corrective actions accordingly. FireCompass also helps organizations to actively manage their external attack surface by providing patching advice, reporting, and remediation capabilities.
FireCompass helps reduce an attack surface by helping organizations identify and prioritize critical assets, such as applications, data, and systems that are candidates for removal or mitigation. By providing visibility into the attack surface, FireCompass can identify potential threats and vulnerabilities, as well as detect and alert users to suspicious activities. This helps organizations better understand their attack surface and focus resources on mitigating known risks. FireCompass also provides real-time visibility and insights into the attack surface, which can be used to create threat models and develop security strategies that are tailored to an organization’s specific needs.
External Attack Surface Management can be an invaluable asset for small businesses. It can help them identify and mitigate potential risks to their online presence, allowing them to protect their customers’ data, their corporate data, and their intellectual property. This can also help small businesses remain up to date on the latest cybersecurity trends and technologies. Additionally, it can help them reduce their overall security costs as they can focus on preventing attacks instead of responding to them. Finally, it can help them ensure their compliance with industry standards and regulations.
External Attack Surface Management is a proactive approach to securing an organization’s external resources, such as websites, web applications, and cloud services. It involves scanning for potential vulnerabilities, monitoring for malicious activity, and responding quickly to any threats detected. Threat intelligence is information gathered from outside sources, such as hacker forums and dark web sources, to identify and anticipate potential threats. By leveraging threat intelligence, organizations can be better informed when it comes to external attack surface management, allowing them to proactively address potential threats before they become an issue.
External Attack Surface Management can be used to improve security posture by proactively identifying and addressing potential security vulnerabilities in external-facing systems, including web applications. This is done by scanning for known vulnerabilities, assessing current security controls, and conducting penetration tests. Additionally, external attack surface management helps organizations prioritize risk mitigation efforts by providing visibility into potential attack vectors, allowing organizations to focus their resources on the most critical risks. Finally, external attack surface management helps organizations stay up-to-date on the latest threats and trends, enabling them to better prepare for future attacks. In other words, it democratizes red teaming by distributing information to the entire organization.
FireCompass helps organizations meet the requirements of red teaming and penetration testing to comply with specific standards such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and OSFI, FISMA, and HIPAA. FireCompass provides automated risk assessment and monitoring to identify potential security vulnerabilities in the IT environment in real-time, helping organizations quickly understand the impact of any changes or new technologies that are being implemented. FireCompass also provides an audit trail and reporting capabilities to ensure that any potential weaknesses are identified and remediated.
External Attack Surface Management works with endpoint security to identify, monitor, and protect all externally facing assets from external threats. This includes improper network placement, scanning for vulnerabilities, and patching any security holes in the systems exposed. Additionally, external attack surface management can be used to emulate external threat scenarios such as phishing attacks, malware injection, credential stuffing and web application attacks where endpoint controls may or may not be effective. The emulation of attacks can test these endpoint defenses before they are circumvented by attackers.
FireCompass is a SaaS platform for Continuous Automated Red Teaming (CART) and External Attack Surface Management (EASM) that acts as an integral part of a good exposure management program.