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How to Detect Internet-Facing Assets for Cybersecurity | UpGuard

The efficacy of an organization’s cybersecurity program is proportional to the level of awareness of its attack surface. Awareness of all internet-facing assets is important because they serve as potential pathways between threat actors and your internal sensitive information.

An organization’s attack surface is the sum of all potential access points that could lead to a data breach if exploited.

The criticality of this requirement in the context ofhttps://www.upguard.com/resources/complete-guide-to-data-breaches has given rise to a dedicated field of cybersecurity known as attack surface management. https://www.upguard.com/blog/attack-surface-management>Attack surface management is the discipline of continuously discovering and addressing security risks across an organization's attack surface.