{"id":54684,"date":"2023-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:uuid:e1e95cfe-af22-7dee-c86f-3206c5cf09f2"},"modified":"2023-11-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T00:00:00","slug":"modern-attack-surface-management-for-cloud-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/modern-attack-surface-management-for-cloud-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Attack Surface Management for Cloud Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today\u2019s distributed environment of remote working endpoints, cloud apps and infrastructure, IoT devices and much more, have made securing the attack surface a daunting challenge. The cloud brings an extra layer of uncertainty; assets and resources are spun up and down with minimal\u2014if any\u2014notice. An ESG survey about cloud detection and response (CDR) reported that 42% of respondents believe their existing tools aren\u2019t up to the task of ephemeral cloud attack surfaces.<\/p>\n

While many organizations have implemented a cloud security solution like CNAPP, risks persist outside of their cloud environments, and security teams have no way to find, view, and correlate everything across their organization\u2019s attack surface.<\/p>\n

Cloud teams (CCoE, Cloud Security Architects, and others) need to shift to more robust, modern ASM solutions that can combine in-depth cloud security data with other inventory information for a holistic view of risk. This empowers better decision-making, accelerates development, and<\/p>\n

Getting the most value out of modern ASM\u202f<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Not all solutions are built the same. Many vendors will cover the basic tenants of ASM: discovery, assessment, and mitigation. And while this a great first step, it\u2019s not enough. Securing the cloud requires broad capabilities that enhance Cloud teams decision making to increase efficiency, optimize organizational security strategy, and reduce complexity.<\/p>\n

Rapid, continuous attack surface discovery  <\/b><\/p>\n

First, teams need to identify an organization\u2019s devices, accounts, applications, and cloud assets\u2014both external and internal. This requires total and real-time visibility, which is only possible if the solution integrates with third-party sources and scans across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments continuously. <\/p>\n

Real-time risk assessment and prioritization<\/b><\/p>\n

Next: assessment. Some vendors might only provide point-in-time assessments instead of continuous and contextual evaluations. Cloud teams need a strong ASM solution that goes beyond simple assessment by creating a risk score that enables rapid risk prioritization against several factors such as likelihood of an attack, possible impact of an outage, and asset criticality. Moreover, a risk score provides a helpful, at-a-glance look at the entire organization\u2019s security posture that can be leveraged to quickly demonstrate success to a CIO\/CTO.<\/p>\n

The right solution will combine automated threat and vulnerability scanning, compliance scanning, and global threat intelligence. This provides a single-pane overview of prioritized API-associated risk across multiple cloud accounts, CVEs mapped to container clusters or images, and cloud misconfigurations mapped to compliance frameworks.<\/p>\n

Proactive risk remediation and management<\/b><\/p>\n

Risk prioritization helps Cloud teams anticipate adversaries faster, leading to speedier mitigation. ASM solutions should surface potential attack paths and leverage AI and ML to synthesize vulnerabilities, risks, security controls, compliance frameworks, and overall posture to provide teams with risk remediation suggestions. This will accelerate response actions and mitigate risk before<\/i> the incident is realized. Bonus points if the solution can orchestrate and automate risk response across the enterprise. <\/p>\n

The platform approach<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

According to a Trend Micro study,<\/a> 89% of respondents have plans to consolidate security products or switch to a platform in the near future. And for good reason: a platform approach is essential to increasing efficiencies by reducing alert overload from disconnected security solutions. Full understanding and context of threats opposed to limited, piecemealed data insights, empower security teams to make risk-based decisions.  <\/p>\n

Trend Vision One\u2122 Attack Surface Risk Management (ASRM)<\/a>, supported by Trend Micro\u2019s industry-leading research, is a cornerstone solution within the Trend Vision One\u2122<\/a> platform. ASRM empowers security leaders to consistently uncover, identify, and prioritize organizational risks, enabling them to swiftly take data-driven actions to proactively mitigate risk and reduce their attack surface.<\/p>\n

The Trend Vision One platform is built to unify policy management, ASRM, and detection and response capabilities across the enterprise. The platform\u2019s native-first, hybrid approach to XDR<\/a> and ASM benefits security teams by delivering richer activity telemetry\u2014not just detection data\u2014across security layers with full context and understanding. This enables teams to contextualize risk and reduce the likelihood of attacks\u2014while reducing false positives and noise within the environment continuously and proactively.<\/p>\n

XDR for cloud, or CDR, correlates threat signals from cloud, multi- and hybrid-cloud, and on-premises environments to ensure alerts are prioritized and escalated against an ever-changing threat landscape.  It enables teams to scale threat hunting and investigation by visualizing the full attack story using interactive graphs, MITRE ATT&CK\u2122 mapping, and simplified search techniques.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Trend Vision One can automate and orchestrate workflows to enhance and augment security analysts\u2019 efforts by speeding up standard operation procedures, removing manual steps, and enabling quick analysis and action such as vulnerability patching. According to ESG,<\/a> 51% of organizations have improved threat detection as a result of automating security processes via playbooks.\u202f\u202f<\/p>\n

Conclusion\u202f<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s attack surface challenges require modern approaches beyond piecemealed, inconsistent inventory. When you choose Trend Vision One Attack Surface Risk Management for Cloud, you are choosing a solution with next-gen capabilities:<\/p>\n