Full Segment Notes
Your attack surface is bigger, and more unknown than you think. Learn how modern environments (cloud, SaaS, identity) are reshaping risk, and how to prioritize what actually matters.Thank you to our sponsor for this webcast, Axonius!If you don’t know what assets you have, you don’t know your risk. Learn how to fix it at https://scworld.com/webcasts.
Key Moments
- 0:00 - Introduction: The Attack Surface Problem
- 03:00 - Why Attack Surface Exploded Post-Pandemic
- 06:00 - Everything is an Attack Surface (Not Just Devices)
- 09:00 - The Visibility Problem (You Can’t Secure What You Can’t See)
- 12:00 - Unknown Assets: The Biggest Risk
- 15:00 - How to Justify Budget for “Unknown” Risk
- 18:00 - Asset Inventory is the Foundation
- 21:00 - Prioritization: What Actually Matters
- 24:00 - Crown Jewels vs Everything Else
- 27:00 - Winning Buy-In Across Teams
- 30:00 - Rogue Systems & Shadow IT
- 33:00 - Detecting Unauthorized Assets
- 36:00 - Identity as Attack Surface (Critical Insight)
- 39:00 - Data-Centric Security Approach
- 42:00 - Vulnerabilities vs Exposures (Key Shift)
- 45:00 - How to Reduce 100K Vulns to What Matters
- 48:00 - Third-Party & SaaS Risk Challenges
- 51:00 - Where Attack Surface Management is Going
- 54:00 - First Steps to Get Started
- 57:00 - Final Takeaways
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