Название: Attack Surface Management: Strategies and Techniques for Safeguarding Your Digital AssetsАвтор: Ron Eddings, MJ Kaufmann
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2025
Страниц: 340
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.1 MB
Organizations are increasingly vulnerable as attack surfaces grow and cyber threats evolve. Addressing these threats is vital, making attack surface management (ASM) essential for security leaders globally. This practical book provides a comprehensive guide to help you master ASM. Cybersecurity engineers, system administrators, and network administrators will explore key components, from networks and cloud systems to human factors.
Authors Ron Eddings and MJ Kaufmann offer actionable solutions for newcomers and experts alike, using Machine Learning and AI techniques. ASM helps you routinely assess digital assets to gain complete insight into vulnerabilities, and potential threats. The process covers all security aspects, from daily operations and threat hunting to vulnerability management and governance.
Every cybersecurity professional knows that securing an organization is a constant battle. Attackers innovate as fast—if not faster—than defenders, and keeping up feels like running on a treadmill set to full speed. As digital transformation accelerates, organizations are expanding their IT environments across cloud platforms, SaaS applications, APIs, and mobile devices—yet many struggle to answer a fundamental question: What, exactly, are we trying to protect? This is the challenge of ASM. Organizations know they need it, and security teams understand the risks of unmanaged, unknown, or misconfigured assets. Yet, when faced with the question of “Where do we even begin?” most don’t have an answer. That’s why we wrote this book.
You'll learn:
Fundamental ASM concepts, including their role in cybersecurity
How to assess and map your organization's attack surface, including digital assets and vulnerabilities
Strategies for identifying, classifying, and prioritizing critical assets
Attack surfaces types, including each one's unique security challenges
How to align technical vulnerabilities with business risks
Principles of continuous monitoring and management to maintain a robust security posture
Techniques for automating asset discovery, tracking, and categorization
Remediation strategies for addressing vulnerabilities, including patching, monitoring, isolation, and containment
How to integrate ASM with incident response and continuously improve cybersecurity strategies
ASM is more than a strategy—it's a defense mechanism against growing cyber threats. This guide will help you fortify your digital defense.
Who Should Read This Book:
Cybersecurity is no longer confined to a single department or a specialized team locked away in a security operations center. The responsibility of securing an organization’s assets is now shared across IT, security, DevOps, compliance, and even business leadership. If you’re reading this, chances are you play a role in protecting your organization’s digital footprint—whether you realize it or not.
This book is for security professionals—CISOs, security engineers, SOC analysts, and AppSec teams who are constantly fighting to reduce risk, respond to threats, and improve security posture across an increasingly complex digital environment. If your job involves monitoring security alerts, managing vulnerabilities, investigating breaches, or designing security policies, this book will give you the tools to approach ASM in a structured, proactive way.
It’s also for IT administrators who manage infrastructure, endpoints, and cloud environments. You’re responsible for keeping systems running smoothly, ensuring they are secure, and managing configurations. However, with shadow IT, third-party SaaS applications, and evolving cloud services, staying ahead of security gaps can feel impossible. ASM provides a framework for visibility, automation, and control—helping IT teams eliminate blind spots before they turn into security incidents.
DevOps teams will also find this book invaluable. Modern application development moves too fast for traditional security models to keep up. Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, containerized applications, and API-driven architectures have expanded attack surfaces in ways most security teams struggle to manage. This book will help DevOps teams embed security into their workflows, ensuring that security is not an afterthought but an integrated part of software development.
For compliance officers and risk managers, ASM provides a way to map security efforts to regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and NIST. Understanding where sensitive data lives, who has access to it, and what external dependencies exist is crucial for maintaining compliance. This book will help compliance professionals work alongside security and IT teams to operationalize security controls and maintain regulatory alignment.
Finally, this book is for anyone involved in cybersecurity strategy—business leaders, product managers, and technology decision-makers who need a clear understanding of attack surfaces, digital risk, and security investments. ASM is not just a technical challenge; it’s a business imperative. Leaders who understand the importance of ASM can drive smarter security investments, improve incident response, and align security efforts with business objectives.
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