Without Automation, External Attack Surface Management Misses The Point
Check Point, Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
In cyber security, external attack surface management (ASM) is like tending a garden, helping you keep track of plants (your assets) as they grow.
It enables you to monitor your assets and quickly identify risks to them-like pests attacking the plant or a plant needing water. The faster and more efficiently you can do this, the faster you can address vulnerabilities and exposures.
In the context of gardening, there's no automated, highly efficient way of keeping track of what's supposed to be growing. But in cyber security, you can take advantage of automated continuous attack surface management tools and cyber security telemetry solutions to monitor your attack surface in an easier, more scalable way. In fact, you need to automate attack surface management if you want to keep ahead of modern threats.