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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 assets. This approach extends far beyond assets with an IP address, however, including everything from...

How two traditionally disparate security disciplines can be united. One of the harrowing images to come out of Wednesday's attack on the US Capitol was a photo posted by a rioter of an open laptop on a desk in US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 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 Pelosi's office during the attack on the Capitol is the same one that was photographed in an unlocked state, it underscores how physical sec...

Cyber security firm Phobos Group has launched Orbital, a reconnaissance and risk-assessment platform for networks. Orbital scans an enterprise's public-facing network infrastructure then generates a report that reveals how attackers could use bugs and misconfigurations to infiltrate the company's network. "Orbital was designed from the ground up to be more impactful than bug bounties and compliance-driven vulnerability scanning," said Phobos. "There isn't a new taxonomy or scoring metric to learn, the Attack Pathways do all the heavy lifting. You see exactly what an attacker would see, before...

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 months and impacted government, consulting, technology, telecom, and oil and gas companies in North Am...