Analysis of an Attack Surface: 5 Ways Hackers are Targeting Organizations
Businesses are undergoing a digital transformation demanding rapid migration to the cloud and expanded adoption of web, mobile, and social platforms. These initiatives, which expand organizations’ digital presence far across the internet, were already exposing the limitations of network security controls like firewalls, DLP, and network monitoring. According to the Verizon Data Breach report, external-facing web applications, into which network security tools lack visibility, comprised the vector category most commonly exploited in hacking-related breaches.
This digital transformation, already challenging long-held views of cybersecurity, was sent into hyperdrive by COVID-19. Almost overnight, workforces and business operations were decentralized and flung all over the world even farther than before, widening protection gaps and turning security protocols on their heads. Personnel, now forced to work from home, moved the edges of their organization’s digital attack surfaces along with them.