Here are three key technologies that will enable your business to enhance its attack surface management strategy and, as a result, minimize cyber risk.
The top attack surface management tools to minimize cyber risk
1. Data discovery software
There are several key elements to effective attack surface management, and the first is gaining visibility into your data. The problem is, traditional asset discovery can no longer keep up with the ever-changing landscape of how today’s organizations operate – and the new vulnerabilities that come with that.
Data discovery, however, is a different proposition. Rather than assessing a company’s traditional walls (such as its hardware, routers and software), data discovery software scans a company’s entire environment to find and identify where structured and unstructured data resides.
Data discovery provides businesses with the visibility they need to identify, classify, and track sensitive data so that they can better keep it secure, identify risk level and ensure that they are handling it in a way that complies with relevant data privacy regulations.
2. Automated data classification
To make the process of finding data even…
