Today’s External Attack Surface Monitoring Tools


Below is the list of various risks which actually needs to be addressed by any organizations:   

  • External Attack Surface Monitoring Dashboard 
  • Brand & Reputation Monitoring   
  • Data Leak Monitoring in Dark & Deep Web 
  • Rogue Mobile Apps Detection   
  • Phishing Threats Detection   
  • Vendor Risk Management 
  • SEO Ranking Management
  • Social Media Channel Threats 

 External Attack Surface Monitoring Dashboard   

External Attack Surface Management – ASM

This software Provides Threat Monitoring dashboard for the organization. It Discovers and continuously monitors the digital assets, targets, Port Configurations, IP;s, Sub-domains, networks, hostnames and other artifacts from attackers perspective.

 Brand & Reputation Monitoring   

Brand reputation is the most important aspect which most of the corporates/companies ignore. They usually keep this brand reputation threat at the last priority in their task list. But things are the other way round. In this social media era, how news gets viral you never know, one can’t even imagine what would be the scale of losses in Brand Reputation. It’s very important to understand the exponential effects for Brand Reputation. 

 Data Leak Monitoring in Dark and Deep Web 

Have you ever noticed a black-market or a separate whole marketplace running parallely, Where all hackers sell data, username with Passwords etc. They use this platform as a secondary internet which acts as an illegal platform for agencies.

Companies Never know when the data leak happened and when it’s available on the dark web, but it’s important for a tool to always keep on scanning Because timely detection & Monitoring can definitely help companies combat the threat. 

We also know that in compliance we have a Response timeline associated with the data leak, hence monitoring data leak in dark & Deep web has become a necessity for CISO or IS Teams. 

 Rogue Mobile Apps Detection  

Businesses run on Mobile Apps and Large BANKS/NBFCs/Fintech/Food Delivery/Cab Booking/Social Media/   companies do have mobile phone dependency. Clients also feel connected directly with the company. Imagine in case a client downloads the Clone app with some fishing material in that and shares credentials within the Rogue mobile app. As a result, there could be huge monetary losses.  Today’s Cybersecurity tool should have features which keep track of Rogue Mobile Apps and monitor those apps round the clock. 

Phishing Threats Detection  

Hackers have fabricated fake email addresses to spoof specific users into clicking malicious attachments or URL’s Linked to them. This kind of threat is called spear-phishing attack. It’s the most common type of threat and still is used heavily.

 Vendor Risk Management  

Assuming you have huge vendors/resellers/distributors to manage, and they all are exposed to the critical data which your company has. Somehow a situation arises where any vendor exposes the client’s critical information on the social media page. This could be an embarrassing moment for the company. It’s impossible for the team to read the whole timeline of the social media pages, hence, Vendor risk management comes into the picture. Tool should be able to check and monitor all risks associated with your vendor/resellers/distributors etc.

 SEO Ranking Management  

Companies invest in their Search Engine Optimization (SEO). They Have hired SEO & Online Marketing professionals and those People round the clock try to improve the ranking of the Company’s page. It’s a huge task and requires continuous funds to pump in.

Hence drastically decrease in page ranking is a risk factor, and it actually indicated that there is something which has affected our page ranking. Now in case companies which don’t act will have to go through the SEO process again, hence doubling the cost and may be more this time. 

Now imagine what if the tool which timely Tells or alerts & Montier round the clock for this threat. Hence while selecting the Threat Monitoring tool, one should always check this feature. 

 Social Media Channel Threats 

Your Organization’s Social media channels are the most important Digital assets for your company. Every Social media company Keeps some checklists to identify the blacklisted domains/URLs . Attackers also know about this checklist and they bring the posting domain/URL in the most prominent Blacklist over the internet and hence social media channels stop the companies from posting hence disturbing the Social media business flow of the company.

 TAGS

#threat #monitoring #cybersecurity #vendorrisk #phishingthreat #ASM #threatdetection #brandreputation 

 KEYWORDS

#threat #threatmoitoring #Tools #Threatdetection 

References:

  1. Sumeru Threat Meter

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