What is External Attack Surface Management?

One web page typically has dozens, if not hundreds, of resource dependencies pulled from third-party hosts.

HTML or JavaScript Dependencies

Dependencies create a sprawling attack surface, with the most prevalent connections created by HTML or JavaScript. These can be found in HTML image import tags, script tags, CSS, and others that pull information from third-party vendors and websites. Cyberpion provides dependency discovery and thorough attack surface visibility.

Redirects

Redirects impart a sense of trust onto the redirected sites and need to be monitored and managed. Rather than asking your security team to manually crawl each page on your site and find every redirect, Cyberpion’s attack surface visibility shows all the redirects across your online presence on a single dashboard.

Attacks will continue to increase as malicious actors discover that this path of least resistance offers the best return on their investment. By taking control of a single third-party asset, attackers can leverage that asset to target all customers through direct or indirect connections to that asset. Because this access comes through a third-party vendor or partner, the attacker avoids an organization’s sophisticated firewalls, logs, virus scanners, or other detection tools.

Infamous exploits of vulnerabilities include Magecart style attacks and cloud-based asset abuse. Both start from vulnerabilities like third-party JavaScript inclusions or poor cloud configuration.

But that’s only the tip of the iceberg in terms of possible attacks and exploits. Nearly 50% of all cyber attacks are initiated from an organization’s digital supply chain.

Cyberpion enables security teams to guard every component of their attack surface with attack surface visibility, continuous vulnerability assessment, and active protection.