Attackers performing reconnaissance will often find unknown, unprotected, and unmonitored assets to use as attack vectors. For a large enterprise, unknown assets often exist by the hundreds and are typically easy for even novice hackers and threat groups to find. Because they’re unmonitored, they provide an easy way in and out. To defend yourself, you need to know what attackers see when they’re looking at you. After all, following an attack or breach, saying “we didn’t know that asset existed,” doesn’t mitigate the damage done.

Beyond just knowing that an asset exists, it’s critical to understand what powers that asset such the type of server it is, software and frameworks running on that server, as well as any vulnerabilities associated with it. Exploited vulnerabilities on internet-facing assets are the leading cause of data breaches from external threat actors.

Once you have an accurate, detailed inventory of external assets in your digital footprint, it is far easier to understand, prioritize, and implement mitigation techniques to ensure that all of your external assets are protected. This inventory of your assets is also critical for compliance with numerous industry regulations.

Organizations can get a glimpse of their external attack surface utilizing RiskIQ Digital Footprint™ Community Edition. Using advanced internet data reconnaissance, RiskIQ automatically correlates internet-facing assets that have been determined to be connected to your domain and organization. This information aids vulnerability management and pen test programs and teams to easily determine external assets, including websites, apps, and components, that exist and may be potentially vulnerable to attack.

Digital Footprint Risk Reporting provides security teams with an easy, accurate, and extensive way to measure digital risk for their organization, understand problems and issues within their footprint, and prioritize corrective action to reduce risk.

RiskIQ Risk Reporting capabilities take advantage of advanced internet reconnaissance and predictive analytics technology that deliver comprehensive external asset inventory, threat discovery, and risk insights. As a result, organizations can measure, track and benchmark their digital security posture – with confidence that findings are an accurate depiction of exposure to external threats from an attacker’s perspective and allow for efficient corrective action.

Digital Footprint Risk Reporting is included as a part of Digital Footprint Enterprise.