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Review date: April 2021 This review is part of the April 2021 assessment of the Attack Surface Management (ASM) product category. If you haven’t read the category overview, you might want to check it out – it explains the category’s basics, use cases, and the general value proposition. Our testing methodology explains both how we interact with vendors and how we tested these products. In short, ASM products aim to discover and manage an organization’s external digital as...

How two traditionally disparate security disciplines can be united. One of the harrowing images to come out of Wednesdays attack on the US Capitol was a photo posted by a rioter of an open laptop on a desk in US House Speaker Nancy Pelosis office. The screen was visible and apparently unlocked, with a warning in a black box that read, "Capitol: Internet Security Threat: Police Activity." While it remains unclear whether the laptop allegedly stolen from Pelosis office during the attack on the Ca...

Cyber security firm Phobos Group has launched Orbital, a reconnaissance and risk-assessment platform for networks. Orbital scans an enterprises public-facing network infrastructure then generates a report that reveals how attackers could use bugs and misconfigurations to infiltrate the companys network. "Orbital was designed from the ground up to be more impactful than bug bounties and compliance-driven vulnerability scanning," said Phobos. "There isnt a new taxonomy or scoring metric to learn,...

The Cybersecurity 202: A Russian mega-hack is further damaging Trump’s cybersecurity legacy Joseph Marks with Tonya Riley A Russian hacking campaign that breached the Treasury and Commerce departments and ran roughshod through critical companies across the globe is a final stain on the Trump administration’s cybersecurity legacy. National security officials are still scrambling this morning to determine the scope of that campaign, which officials say was going on for mo...