EP32 Can You Ever Know Thyself: Cloud Attack Surface Management

Cloud Security Podcast by Google

Guest:

• Derek Abdine, CTO @ Censys.io

Topics:

• Attack Surface Management (ASM). Why do we need a new toolset and a new category? Isn’t this just 1980s asset management or CMDB?
• How do we find those assets that may have been misplaced by the organizations? How can any technology do this reliably?
• ASM seems to often rely on network layer 3 and 4. Can’t bad guys just hit the app endpoints and all your network is irrelevant then?
• When you think about the threats organizations face due to unknown assets, is data theft at the top of the stack? What should organizations keep in mind as a priority here?
• Who at an organization is best set up to receive, triage, investigate, and respond to the alerts about the attack surface?
• Are there proactive steps organizations can take to prevent shadow IT, or are we stuck responding to each new signal? Isn’t preventing new assets the same as preventing business?

Resources:

• “Cloud Misconfiguration Mayhem An Analysis of Service Exposure Across Cloud Providers“
• “Attack Surface Management Buyer’s Guide”