CISOs need to adopt a proactive approach to enhance attack surface visibility due to evolving security threats and growing technological reliance. Continuous monitoring and real-time asset visibility are essential for identifying vulnerabilities and mitigating risks before cyber attacks occur. A comprehensive security strategy, including attack surface management and compliance adherence, is crucial for maintaining cyber resilience and competitive advantage.

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Why CISOs Need a New Approach to Enhance Attack
Surface Visibility
The past two years have served as a major wake-up call for security experts and business leaders, who must
now adapt to face new security threats and trends. A proactive, security-first approach is even more critical
when practicing digital hygiene when it comes to risk management.
Businesses must adapt and prioritize their cyber security in the wake of such a turbulent year, growing cloud
adoption, and a greater reliance on developing technology to function. Many are becoming vulnerable as the threat
landscape continues to evolve, providing innumerable opportunities for attackers. CISOs today are concerned
about identifying, tracking, and managing assets, necessitating a new approach to strengthen attack surface
visibility.
CISOs are increasingly looking for ways to secure their company’s cyber resilience against new and evolving
threats. End-to-end real-time visibility gives them a bird’s-eye view of their digital environment, allowing for
improved risk detection and response, and it’s quickly becoming a must.
Vulnerabilities that potentially expand the attack surface can be introduced at any time. As a result, continual
vulnerability detection allows security leaders to discover flaws in their apps and systems before attackers do. Any
security flaws are discovered and addressed as needed, bolstering the digital infrastructure using a data-driven,
risk-based strategy.
Continuous monitoring of vulnerabilities that contain or process data is provided via attack surface management.
This proactive approach helps security professionals map, comprehend, and analyze the threat landscape,
allowing them to think like an attacker and lower their cyber risk.
It’s Critical to Have a Proactive Security Strategy
Attack surface mapping is at the heart of resilience in today’s ever-changing threat scenario. Businesses must be
able to see exactly what they own, what is connected to the internet, and what could be vulnerable to a cyber-
attack.
By Prangya Pandab - June 6, 2022

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Continuous Monitoring is Vital
Continuous monitoring enables companies to safeguard their external environment before rather than after attacks
occur, reducing the chances of a successful breach. A proactive, forward-thinking approach is far more effective
than a reactive one, especially given the surge in cyber-attacks. Antivirus software, firewalls, and other legacy
defenses are no longer sufficient, as sophisticated attacks can readily defeat them.
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Evaluate Ability to Combat Risk
Security leaders can assess their overall digital health and, as a result, their capacity to make risk decisions with
complete visibility of the threat landscape. And this is another reason why boardrooms should prioritize cyber
security.
Ensure Compliance
Maintaining compliance with regulations and policies has become more complex as security standards have
become more demanding and the amount of sensitive data stored and sent has increased. Failure to follow
compliance rules can have serious consequences for a company’s reputation and bottom line.
Competitive Advantage
Demonstrating a company’s ability and commitment to prioritize data security can give them a competitive edge
while also helping to build consumer trust and ensure the company’s longevity.
Prioritize Remediation
Due to the continuous nature of this form of protection, organizations can be notified of changes as soon as they
occur. They can prioritize remedial activities once they’ve identified their vulnerabilities and other potential attack
vectors.
Make Informed Security Decisions
Businesses can alter their strategy to focus on areas that require attention after they have a clearer understanding
of what and where the risks are. A manual penetration test is triggered when an application regularly flags
vulnerabilities.
Security Needs to Be Scalable
As emerging technology allows operations and processes to become more efficient and faster, new and
unavoidable risks arise. Increasing risk necessitates a scalable technique to ensure that the systems are easily
safeguarded, even as the load grows.
Constant Surveillance is Crucial
Security teams will be able to patch vulnerabilities more efficiently, quickly, and effectively if they use a continuous
threat intelligence system. There’s no need to be concerned about compiling endless asset inventories manually.
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Prangya Pandab
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Prangya Pandab is an Associate Editor with OnDot Media. She is a seasoned journalist with almost
seven years of experience in the business news sector. Before joining ODM, she was a journalist with
CNBC-TV18 for four years. She also had a brief stint with an infrastructure finance company working for
their communications and branding vertical.