The Hidden Costs of Ignoring Your External Attack Surface
Organizations often focus on securing internal systems, inadvertently neglecting their external attack surface—the sum of all internet-facing assets. This oversight can lead to significant, often hidden, costs.
The Hidden Costs of Ignoring Your External Attack Surface
Organizations often focus on securing internal systems, inadvertently neglecting their external attack surface—the sum of all internet-facing assets. This oversight can lead to significant, often hidden, costs. Let's explore these potential expenses and how TRaViS can help mitigate them.
1. Financial Losses from Data Breaches
Neglecting external vulnerabilities can result in data breaches, leading to substantial financial repercussions. For instance, Australian small businesses have faced average costs of around $50,000 per cyber attack.
How TRaViS Helps:
TRaViS conducts comprehensive asset discovery, identifying and monitoring all internet-facing assets, including forgotten subdomains and unsecured APIs. By providing real-time alerts on vulnerabilities, TRaViS enables organizations to address issues promptly, reducing the risk of costly breaches.
2. Regulatory Fines and Legal Expenses
Data breaches can lead to violations of regulations like GDPR or HIPAA, resulting in hefty fines and legal costs. For example, Australian companies can face fines ranging from $15,000 to $2.1 million for data breaches.
How TRaViS Helps:
By continuously monitoring the external attack surface, TRaViS ensures compliance with regulatory standards. It provides actionable insights to remediate vulnerabilities, helping organizations avoid legal penalties.
3. Reputational Damage
A compromised external asset can tarnish an organization's reputation, leading to loss of customer trust and revenue. The financial sector, in particular, is highly vulnerable to such reputational risks.
How TRaViS Helps:
TRaViS offers real-time monitoring and threat intelligence integration, allowing organizations to detect and address vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. This proactive approach helps maintain customer trust and safeguard the organization's reputation.
4. Operational Disruptions
Exploited vulnerabilities can disrupt operations, leading to downtime and productivity losses. For example, vulnerabilities on external attack surfaces can remain unaddressed for extended periods, increasing the risk of operational disruptions.
How TRaViS Helps:
By providing continuous, real-time monitoring and comprehensive asset discovery, TRaViS enables organizations to identify and remediate vulnerabilities promptly, minimizing the risk of operational disruptions.
5. Increased Insurance Premiums
Frequent security incidents can lead to higher cybersecurity insurance premiums, adding to operational costs.
How TRaViS Helps:
By reducing the frequency and severity of security incidents through effective external attack surface management, TRaViS can help organizations maintain or even lower their insurance premiums.
Conclusion
Ignoring your external attack surface can lead to hidden costs that far exceed the investment in proactive security measures. TRaViS provides a comprehensive solution to identify, monitor, and remediate external vulnerabilities, helping organizations avoid financial losses, legal penalties, reputational damage, operational disruptions, and increased insurance costs.
Investing in TRaViS is not just about enhancing security—it's about safeguarding your organization's financial health and reputation.
