How to stay one step ahead of cyber criminals: reduce your attack surface

www.secura.com... Many companies are surprised to discover what can be found about them from sources on the internet. Whether you are a public organization, or a business, hackers are trying to get access to your network, and they use anything they can find. Gartner estimates that less than 1% of organizations have a proper visualization of their exposed assets. The External Attack Surface Assessment will help you reduce your attack surface. Principal Security Specialist Paul Pols explains the benefits of this assessment.
Your challenges:
How to ensure you have a complete inventory of your exposed assets, for example open S3 buckets, hard-coded passwords in Github, exposed SSH interfaces and unsecured APIs and IoT devices.
How to monitor for compromised credentials on the dark web.
How to keep an eye on missing patches, outdated software and configuration issues.