10 Essential Use Cases for Attack Surface Management: How Cortex Xpanse helps you meet common security challenges with ease

The modern attack surface is intricate, complex—and growing fast. Hard-to-monitor attack surfaces span on-premises networks, diverse cloud infrastructures, supplier networks, and remote employee devices.

Every time a business unit adds a new infrastructure component, cloud environment, or service, the attack surface grows. Every merger or acquisition adds additional complexity. Every time an employee moves to a different remote workspace, the attack surface expands yet again.

Security teams must safeguard this complex landscape so it can thrive and deliver value to the business. But these exposed assets offer many opportunities to attackers, who relentlessly look for vulnerabilities and use any means necessary to exploit them.

Security teams need to identify every asset they own, maintain continuous visibility, and eliminate blind spots from their environment. Yet these teams are often understaffed and stretched thin. They don’t know exactly how many assets they have and often rely on tools that require a great deal of manual work.