Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

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.

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.

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.

Your potential customers could be interacting with a malicious website that resembles your company's website. This dangerous cyber risk, known as a lookalike domain, is on the rise, with 80% of registered web domains in 2024 resembling 2000 global brands. This article explains what lookalike domains are, their impact on your brand, and why these attacks are increasing, providing real-time strategies to protect your business from domain spoofing.

The widening attack surface signals a critical risk, and your supply chain is the prime target. Attackers exploit vulnerabilities that were inserted long before the system was onboarded. This enables them to infiltrate data or disrupt systems at any stage, making supply chain attacks a direct and growing risk. A third-party breach compromises your vendor, but a supply chain attack targets you, which is why organizations need to make supply chain cybersecurity a business priority.

What if your security operations team could reduce the time from risk discovery to resolution, from hours to seconds? 64% of analysts spend more than half of their time on manual tasks. It’s a sobering reality, considering how accelerated detection has become, and the contrast couldn’t be sharper. There are tools that detect zero-day vulnerabilities, map complex attacks, and identify vendor risk exposures, but remediation is still stuck in the age of manual mitigation.

Does the world really need another study of shadow AI? That was my first thought going into this project. Reading dozens of previous reports did not change that impression: there's a lot of shadow AI out there, and a lot of reports saying so. But the more I read, the more apparent it became that something important was missing. This endless supply was not meeting what was actually in demand.

The platforms your customers trust to connect with your brand are now being weaponized to destroy its reputation. AI is equipping cybercriminals with industrial-scale operations that can replicate your brand presence across all major social platforms in just minutes. This guide provides a CISO's framework for moving from reactive brand monitoring to proactive threat disruption, detailing a four-pillar plan to neutralize these threats before they impact your business.

When an auditor walks through your door, they aren't looking for a list of vulnerabilities; they're looking for proof that your Third-Party Cyber Risk Management (TPCRM) program is consistent, defensible, and robust. Internal and external auditors evaluate the Vendor Risk Management process by testing evidence, but they do so with different goals.

You've been here before. The vendor risk assessment is complete, the report is generated, and it lands on a stakeholder's desk. And yet, this comprehensive, detailed document, which provides vital information on a vendor's security posture, goes nowhere. The handoff lands in limbo.