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Attack Surface Assessment

Manage exposure, reduce risk and improve your security posture by understanding your external attack surface through the eyes of an attacker. This point-in-time assessment gives you visibility into your internet-connected assets, with prioritized recommendations to better defend your organization.

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Why Unit 42

BENEFITS

See your attack surface through the eyes of an adversary

Jump-start your attack surface management program with a Unit 42^TM Attack Surface Assessment. With these point-in-time assessments, you can track, validate and report on unknown risks present in your internet-facing assets. Powered by Cortex® Xpanse^TM and delivered by Unit 42 security experts, our findings and recommendations are prioritized based on the threats you are most likely to face.

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Improve security outcomes

With an accurate and comprehensive understanding of your attack surface, including previously unknown assets, you will see yourself from an attacker’s viewpoint. This allows you to remediate issues before they can be exploited.

Reduce risk scores and increase compliance

Compliance continues to grow in importance, and risk scores are often used to set insurance premiums. By identifying and remediating issues in your attack surface, you show measurable progress for regulators, clients, board members and other stakeholders.

Simplify attack surface management (ASM)

Boost your ASM program and enable your security and IT teams without implementation planning, agent deployments or aggressive scanning. Get Unit 42 expertise with fixed pricing and no expensive software licenses.

SERVICE FEATURES

Here’s what we deliver

Find previously unknown assets, identify vulnerabilities and security gaps, and get prioritized recommendations to reduce risk across your organization.

EXPERT ATTACK SURFACE ANALYSIS

ATTACK SURFACE FINDINGS

PRIORITIZED REMEDIATION RECOMMENDATIONS

SECURITY POSTURE MANAGEMENT

METHODOLOGY

Streamline attack surface management with Unit 42 expertise

PREPARE

Gather organizational context

Unit 42 identifies the desired depth, scope and high-level goals of the assessment by talking with key stakeholders.

TAILOR

Review security documentation

Our incident response experts will review your existing network topologies, allowed services and publicly exposed assets.

TAILOR

Conduct stakeholder interviews

Unit 42 will interview pertinent stakeholders to ensure that documented procedures align with organizational practices.

MEASURE

Map external attack surface

We will map and assess exposed assets with Cortex Xpanse. Key business and security concerns will be prioritized for review.

IMPROVE

Deliver tailored briefing and report

We will provide detailed results with actionable recommendations based on our deep security and threat intelligence expertise.

WHY UNIT 42

World-renowned security experts, always in your corner

As an industry-leading threat intelligence, cyber risk management and incident response organization, it's our job to help you prepare and respond to some of the most challenging threats so that your team can get back to business faster. As threats escalate, we act as your trusted partner to advise and strengthen your security strategies.

WORLD-CLASS THREAT INTELLIGENCE

Unit 42 provides access to one of the world’s largest and most experienced threat intelligence teams. Our team of more than 200 cyberthreat researchers includes threat hunters, malware reverse engineers and threat modeling experts who enable you to apply a threat-informed approach to prepare for and respond to the latest cyberthreats.

TRUSTED EXPERTISE & EXPERIENCE

Unit 42 has assembled an experienced team of security consultants with backgrounds in public and private sectors who have handled some of the largest cyberattacks in history. We manage complex cyber risks and respond to advanced threats, including nation-state attacks, APTs and complex ransomware investigations.

INDUSTRY-LEADING TOOLS

Unit 42 security consultants leverage industry-leading Palo Alto Networks tools to jumpstart your investigation by gaining necessary visibility across your endpoint, network, cloud and third-party data. This enables you to develop and execute a plan to get back to business as quickly as possible following an incident.

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CASE STUDY

An Agricultural Business Gains Insight Into Its Attack Surface Risk With a Unit 42 Attack Surface Assessment

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A CISO’s Guide to Attack Surface Management

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Go from reactive to proactive

Our consultants serve as your trusted advisors to assess and test your security controls against the right threats, transform your security strategy with an intelligence-informed approach and respond to incidents in record time.

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