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Common security testing approaches leave gaps. Here’s how to find them.

Jason-Pappalexis
By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
September 16, 2024

Gaps in security testing involve more than missed assets – infrequent and inaccurate security testing can be just as big. This blog provides a five-step plan to help you find testing gaps and tighten your testing program, improving risk management, decision-making, and cost efficiency. A must-read for anyone looking to strengthen their security across their external attack surface.



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Web Application Security Testing: Struggles, Shortfalls and Solutions

Graham-Rance
By Graham Rance
Interim Head of Sales Engineering
June 3, 2024

A survey of cybersecurity professionals in the U.S. and U.K. reveals challenges in web application security testing. Key findings include extensive attack surfaces due to numerous in-house and third-party applications, frequent security incidents, concerns about the effectiveness of existing tools, and inadequate testing coverage. Additionally, over half of respondents struggle to remediate discovered vulnerabilities. These findings highlight the need for improved web application security testing strategies.



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No Room for Doubt – Why Security Testing is Essential for your External Attack Surface

Jason-Pappalexis
By Jason Pappalexis
Sr. Technical Marketing Manager
January 9, 2024

Security testing externally exposed assets is essential to building a risk profile but is difficult using legacy approaches.



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Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Assess All Assets to Detect All Risks

Rob-Gurzeev
By Rob Gurzeev
CEO & Co-Founder
February 24, 2022

Business risks lurk in many places. For cybersecurity, the worst risks are often the ones you never saw coming.  A Real World Example To illustrate, consider this real example: A manufacturing conglomerate has an engineer build a Javascript connector for remote access to a mainframe but inadvertently exposes it to the internet. How do you discover this risk and its potential damage? A penetration test will not help unless you happen to be testing that particular machine among hundreds or thousands of servers. A vulnerability scan also will not help, as the risk will be invisible because it is not…



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State of External Exposure Management, Summer 2024 Edition

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Moving from Vulnerability Management to Exposure Management

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