Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management

Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM), is the process of analyzing, protecting, and managing the increasing attack surface.

CAASM (cyber asset attack surface management) is an emerging technology that enables security teams to address asset visibility and exposure concerns. It enables organizations to see all assets (internal and external), primarily through API integrations with existing tools, query consolidated data, identify the scope of vulnerabilities and gaps in security controls, and remediate issues.

Organizations today are significantly more evolved and distributed. The hybrid work era, as well as developments like as BYOD, have actually made the workplace boundaryless. As a result, the attack surface has become nearly infinite. A limitless attack surface indicates that the business is increasingly vulnerable to cyberthreats, and the traditional method of asset management is no longer viable.

A CAASM solution bridges this gap by providing an accurate, near real-time snapshot of an organization’s assets. A CAASM plan is required for enterprises to improve their overall cyber resilience.

Benefits of CAASM

• CAASM gives businesses an unambiguous perspective of their assets and clearly lays out the attack surface.
• It gives an up-to-date view of asset inventory in real time.
• It enables security teams to improve fundamental security hygiene by ensuring that security controls, security posture, and asset exposure are all understood and addressed.
• Consolidates existing products that collect asset and exposure information into a single view to reduce the need for manual processes or dependencies on in-house developed applications
• It assists businesses in visualising security tool coverage, assisting attack surface management (ASM) processes, and correcting systems of record that may contain outdated or missing data.
• Speeds compliance audits and reporting through more accurate, current, and comprehensive asset and security control reports.
• It boosts efficiency by reducing the need to manually manage an asset list.

CAASM collects assets from other solutions that collect a subset of assets such endpoints, servers, devices, and apps. Users can conduct queries to uncover gaps in coverage for security tools such as vulnerability assessment and endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions by merging internal and external cyber assets. CAASM mostly collects data passively via API interfaces, replacing time-consuming manual processes for collecting and reconciling asset information.