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Attack Surface Monitoring Guide for Security Teams

The rising threat of cybercrime, projected to reach an astonishing $13.82 trillion by 2028, is largely attributed to the expanding attack surface. This signals that organizations are more vulnerable than ever. Assuming your organization is safe, without ongoing visibility is dangerous. That’s because every digital asset poses a threat, whether a new tool or forgotten assets. Security and Operations Center (SOC) teams require real-time insight, which is why attack surface monitoring is crucial.

Solving Human Risk: Automate Governance and Prioritize Action

In our previous blog post, “Closing the Visibility Gap,” we established that visibility is the first step in managing the modern human attack surface; however, prioritizing that data is the next major concern for any CISO. Prioritization of human risk data is critical, as it directly informs governance and effective high-level decision-making. Simply put, prioritization is crucial to driving action.

Modernizing Vendor Risk for the AI Era

See how Riverside County transformed vendor risk from a manual, time-consuming process into a streamlined, data-driven operation that speeds decision-making, reduces risk, and enables innovation. Also hear about their approach to managing emerging AI risks, with practical, actionable lessons other security teams can apply. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?

Flying blind on workforce security? Let User Risk be your co-pilot.

What we heard loud and clear from security teams is that they’re flying blind when it comes to securing their workforce. In fact, companies often have more SaaS applications than they do employees. They just don’t realize it. Secondly, there’s a tremendously long tail of SaaS applications only being used by one person in the organization. Imagine trying to imagine that manually. User Risk, solves this visibility gap by giving organizations visibility into your human risk, enabling safe AI adoption, and driving a security-first culture.

Shadow SaaS IS lurking in your organization. Here's what you need to know.

Is shadow SaaS lurking in your organization? The answer is "yes". Now, what do you do about it? User Risk gives security teams complete visibility into their human risk, enabling safe AI adoption, and driving a security-first culture. Discover more of what User Risk can do for you.

Solving Human Risk: Close the Visibility Gap

The modern cybersecurity landscape is being redefined by the human element. With every individual user accessing your network, tools, and sensitive data, managing your human attack surface is growing more critical than ever. Yet, as user autonomy increases and AI erupts, this task has become increasingly difficult, if not impossible, with yesterday's tools.

Attack Surface Discovery: A Quick Overview

Hybrid clouds, rapid development, and Shadow IT have expanded the modern attack surface, making complete visibility both crucial and more difficult than ever. Attack surface discovery offers a means of addressing these visibility gaps by continuously mapping all digital assets — internal, external, and hidden. This guide covers the fundamentals, best practices, and top tools for effectively discovering the attack surface.

Trust Exchange Paid: Scaling Security Communication

Today, Trust Exchange stands tall as a platform used by thousands of customers to communicate their security posture. Now we are introducing the new Trust Exchange Paid tier. This tier is designed to help you eliminate bottlenecks, accelerate deal cycles, and maintain top-tier security communication. For high-growth organizations, scaling communication means that security requests escalate rapidly. With UpGuard’s mission to drive proactive cybersecurity protocols, this is our next step.