Proactively Reduce Risk Across Your Attack Surface
Fortinet News, Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
The FortiGuard Attack Surface Security Service can assess and improve security across IT, OT, and IoT assets
A primary objective for IT security teams is to reduce the risk associated with the organization's network attack surface at all times. One might think it easy to just reduce the attack surface to reduce overall risk. And this can be done by closing off potential points of entry for attackers. For example, closing unused ports in a firewall, hardening an OS, eliminating vulnerabilities in an application during development, and so on. However, these steps can only go so far, as business realities tend to collide with business objectives.
Over time, more businesses have taken advantage of agile cloud services and multiple cloud vendor solutions. Although moving data, applications, and infrastructure to the cloud has provided more agility, scalability, and flexibility, the changes have also dramatically expanded network edges and the attack surface.