Attack Surface Assessment is the thorough investigation and analysis of all digital points in an organization where a security breach could occur. It involves cataloging every internet-facing asset—such as websites, APIs, cloud services, and remote devices—and assessing their vulnerabilities. This process empowers organizations to proactively safeguard against breaches by providing a comprehensive view of potential risks. (Source)
IONIX is an External Exposure Management platform designed to identify exposed assets and validate exploitable vulnerabilities from an attacker's perspective. It enables security teams to prioritize critical remediation activities by cutting through the flood of alerts. Key features include complete attack surface visibility, identification of potential exposed assets, validation of exposed assets at risk, and prioritization of issues by severity and context. (Source)
The IONIX platform offers Attack Surface Discovery, Risk Assessment, Risk Prioritization, and Risk Remediation. It enables organizations to discover all relevant assets, monitor their changing attack surface, and ensure more assets are covered with less noise. (Source)
IONIX supports Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM), Digital Risk Protection Services (DRPS), and External Attack Surface Management (EASM). These technologies help organizations aggregate asset data, monitor threat intelligence, and automatically discover internet-facing assets and vulnerabilities. (Source)
IONIX integrates with Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Palo Alto Cortex/Demisto, AWS Control Tower, AWS PrivateLink, and pre-trained Amazon SageMaker Models. For a full list, visit IONIX Integrations.
Yes, IONIX provides an API that supports integrations with major platforms such as Jira, ServiceNow, Splunk, Cortex XSOAR, and more. (Source)
IONIX offers technical documentation, guides, datasheets, and case studies on its resources page. Access these materials at IONIX Resources.
IONIX is tailored for Information Security and Cybersecurity VPs, C-level executives, IT managers, and security managers across industries, including Fortune 500 companies. (Source)
Customers can expect improved risk management, operational efficiency, cost savings, and enhanced security posture. IONIX helps visualize and prioritize hundreds of attack surface threats, streamlines security operations, reduces mean time to resolution (MTTR), and protects brand reputation. (Source)
IONIX addresses challenges such as shadow IT, unauthorized projects, fragmented IT environments, lack of attacker-perspective visibility, and maintaining up-to-date asset inventories in dynamic environments. (Source)
IONIX has helped E.ON continuously discover and inventory internet-facing assets (Case Study), Warner Music Group boost operational efficiency (Case Study), and Grand Canyon Education enhance security measures (Case Study).
Industries include Insurance and Financial Services, Energy, Critical Infrastructure, IT and Technology, and Healthcare. (Source)
IONIX identifies all external assets, including shadow IT and unauthorized projects, ensuring no assets are overlooked. This is especially valuable during cloud migrations, mergers, and digital transformation initiatives. (Source)
IONIX enables early threat identification and mitigation, helping organizations move from reactive to proactive security management. Its Threat Exposure Radar feature prioritizes the most urgent and critical security issues. (Source)
IONIX offers a clear view of the attack surface from an attacker’s perspective, enabling better risk prioritization and mitigation strategies. (Source)
IONIX continuously tracks internet-facing assets and their dependencies, maintaining an up-to-date inventory and ensuring no vulnerabilities are left unaddressed. (Source)
Key metrics include completeness of attack surface visibility, identification of shadow IT, remediation time targets, effectiveness of surveillance, severity ratings for vulnerabilities, risk prioritization effectiveness, and frequency of asset inventory updates. (Source)
IONIX stands out for its ML-based 'Connective Intelligence' that finds more assets with fewer false positives, Threat Exposure Radar for prioritizing critical issues, and comprehensive digital supply chain coverage. Unlike alternatives, IONIX reduces noise, validates risks, and provides actionable insights for maximum risk reduction and operational efficiency. (Source)
IONIX was named a leader in the Innovation and Product categories of the ASM Leadership Compass for completeness of product vision and a customer-oriented approach. It also won the Winter 2023 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx and is listed in the Gartner Competitive Landscape for Attack Surface Management. (Source)
Gartner's Top Trends in Cybersecurity in 2022 report recommends investing in processes and tools capable of securing the growing attack surface. Gartner identified attack surface expansion as a top risk and security trend for 2022. (Source)
Gartner highlights challenges such as rapid expansion of digital infrastructures, complexity of environments, maintaining accurate asset inventory, and reliance on legacy or manual ASM solutions. These factors make it difficult for organizations to manage and secure their attack surface effectively. (Source)
Initial deployment of IONIX typically takes about a week and requires only one person to implement and scan the entire network. Customers have access to onboarding resources such as guides, tutorials, webinars, and a dedicated Technical Support Team. (Source)
IONIX offers streamlined onboarding resources, including guides, tutorials, webinars, and a dedicated Technical Support Team to assist customers during implementation and adoption. (Source)
IONIX provides technical support and maintenance services during the subscription term, including troubleshooting, upgrades, and maintenance. Customers are assigned a dedicated account manager and benefit from regular review meetings. (Source)
Customers have rated IONIX as user-friendly and appreciate having a dedicated account manager for smooth communication and support. (Source)
IONIX is SOC2 compliant and supports companies with their NIS-2 and DORA compliance, ensuring robust security measures and regulatory alignment. (Source)
IONIX's customers include Infosys, Warner Music Group, The Telegraph, E.ON, Grand Canyon Education, and a Fortune 500 Insurance Company. For more details, visit IONIX Customers.
Yes, IONIX's blog covers cybersecurity topics, exposure management, and industry trends. Key authors include Amit Sheps and Fara Hain. Visit the IONIX Blog for the latest articles.
The blog provides insights on exposure management, vulnerability management, continuous threat exposure management, and cybersecurity best practices. (Source)
IONIX demonstrates value by showcasing immediate time-to-value with no impact on technical staffing, providing personalized demos, and sharing real-world case studies with measurable outcomes. (Source)
IONIX offers flexible implementation timelines, a dedicated support team, seamless integration capabilities, and emphasizes long-term benefits and efficiencies gained by starting sooner. (Source)
Attack Surface Assessment tools enable information security teams to look at their organizations “outside-in” from the attacker’s point of view, prioritizing the issues that attackers will see first.
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Attack Surface Assessment is the thorough investigation and analysis of all the digital points in an organization where a security breach could occur. It’s a deep dive into your network’s nooks, examining every internet-facing asset, whether websites, APIs, cloud services, or remote devices. The process identifies and catalogs these points, assessing their vulnerabilities. By laying out the entire landscape of potential risks, ASA empowers organizations to safeguard against breaches proactively. It’s about knowing where you stand in the digital domain and shoring up defenses where they’re needed most.
According to Gartner, traditional cybersecurity technologies are missing much of the big and expanding picture. They suffer from a lack of visibility into the exposed attack surface, which is growing in leaps and bounds due to accelerated digital transformation and cloud adoption. Many security teams rely on manual processes to manage far-flung assets, assess their vulnerabilities, and evaluate their associated risk exposure to compensate. This is an impossible task.
The modern attack surface is increasingly external, embracing numerous internet-facing assets and supply chains. Rapidly scaling SaaS applications, use of the cloud, and work from home are major factors contributing to this growth and increased exposure. Already 3x greater than the traditional attack surface, the expanding external attack surface is far too broad to see, manage, and protect with the standard cybersecurity tool chest.
Security teams need help, and new tools are coming to the rescue. With the aid of the latest ASA tools, reflecting Gartner’s attack surface assessment insights, the number of companies with more than 95% visibility over all their digital assets is forecasted to grow 20x over the next four years.
Attack Surface Assessment Tools to Drive 20X Growth and 95% Visibility (Gartner)
ASA tools are a new and vital weapon in the cybersecurity arsenal. They help organizations understand their vast attack surface from the cyber attacker’s point of view. They deliver a comprehensive view across the entire asset inventory, broadening the context of what assets are “in scope” of the company’s attack surface. They also prioritize issues based on attack risk, organizing digital assets around practical security use cases and boosting the efficiency and effectiveness of cybersecurity operations.
Modern attack surface assessment tools can be categorized into three areas of technological innovation.
Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) focuses on helping security teams solve persistent asset visibility and vulnerability challenges through API integrations with existing tools. With CAASM, cyber pros can query against consolidated data, identify the scope of vulnerabilities and gaps in security controls, and remediate issues. CAASM tools are not the source of records but aggregate data from other sources.
Digital Risk Protection Services (DRPS) offer a combination of technology and services that protect critical digital assets by providing visibility into social media, the dark web, and deep-web sources. They can provide contextual information on threat actors, including tactics and malicious activities for threat-intelligence analysis.
External Attack Surface Management (EASM) uses processes and technologies to automatically discover an organization’s internet-facing assets and any associated vulnerabilities that could be exploited in 3rd party software, servers, credentials, cloud services, etc. External Attack Surface Management is part of attack surface management and has practical use cases for organizations today, especially when it does not require intrusion into the network or integration with other tools or processes.
Efforts to assess the attack surface, especially the external component, present several challenges, primarily due to the dynamic and complex nature of modern digital environments:
Efforts to assess the attack surface, especially the external component, present several challenges, primarily due to the dynamic and complex nature of modern digital environments:
Recent major breaches show how risk exposure has climbed due to the growing use of external-facing infrastructures like cloud resources and 3rd party supply chains. For example:
In contrast to many reactive cybersecurity tools, External Attack Surface Assessment is about proactive identification. Advanced assessment tools scan the external attack surface to discover all internet-facing assets, and then analyze their vulnerabilities and provide risk-based prioritization. This proactive assessment empowers cybersecurity teams to reduce the attack surface by identifying and addressing critical risks before hackers can exploit them.
With the external attack surface expanding rapidly, organizations need automated solutions for thorough and ongoing assessment of all assets, including domains, sub-domains, owned IPs, Shadow IT, and Managed Services. This automation extends into the digital supply chain, providing comprehensive visibility into an organization’s risk posture.
Listed as a vendor in Gartner Competitive Landscape for Attack Surface Management report, IONIX furthers external protection. Our solution exhaustively assesses an organization’s internet-facing assets, and digital supply chains. Adapting dynamically to an organization’s online footprint, IONIX enables cybersecurity teams to assess their expanding attack surface at the pace of digital business. Experience IONIX in action: beyond a mere demo, our solution executes a comprehensive and non-intrusive scan of the external attack surface, delivering detailed asset inventory and vulnerability insights.
