How to Defend Your Expanding Attack Surface

There are plenty of benefits to innovative new technologies, from greater efficiency to cost savings to customer satisfaction. It is rare, however, for a new technology to truly replace existing IT – rather, it gets incorporated into or bolted onto current systems. This approach, along with the explosion of mobile devices and proliferation of software and SaaS applications, dramatically increases and clouds an Agency’s cyber footprint and attack surface. It is hard to maintain an accurate inventory that records hundreds of thousands of assets, their relationships and dependencies, or to track their vulnerabilities and spot cybersecurity gaps. And while prioritizing risks and mitigation efforts is essential, the increasingly complex IT landscape makes it ever more difficult.