Bishop Fox's Cosmos Attack Surface Management (CASM is a comprehensive, fully managed service designed to provide organizations with continuous visibility and control over their external digital assets. By combining advanced technology with expert-driven testing, CASM proactively identifies and mitigates vulnerabilities, ensuring that security teams can address critical exposures before they are exploited by adversaries.
Key Features and Functionality:
- Comprehensive Asset Discovery: Utilizes a domain-centric approach to uncover the entire digital footprint, including subdomains, networks, cloud services, applications, and third-party infrastructures.
- Continuous Monitoring and Up-to-Date Inventory: Maintains an accurate and current inventory of perimeter assets through regular updates, leveraging both publicly accessible data and proprietary discovery techniques.
- Expert Validation of Asset Ownership: Employs a specialized team skilled in attack surface reconnaissance to meticulously verify asset ownership, ensuring an authentic and comprehensive representation of the organization's perimeter.
- Identification of High-Risk Exposures: Focuses on vulnerabilities most targeted by attackers, such as exposed services, misconfigurations, vulnerable software, credential reuse, information disclosures, and potential subdomain takeovers.
- Proactive Threat Monitoring: Leverages an advanced reconnaissance engine and unique discovery methods to strategically scan for new vulnerabilities, responding promptly to emerging threats and changes across the attack surface.
- Expert-Driven Validation of Exploitability: A dedicated team of highly skilled testers, including experts from the NSA, DoD, and renowned bug bounty hunters, continuously evaluates the perimeter's security and confirms the exploitability of identified vulnerabilities.
- Actionable Remediation Guidance: Provides a curated list of verified vulnerabilities, accompanied by actionable guidance and detailed evidence of exploitation, to streamline and prioritize remediation efforts on threats with the potential to cause significant business impact.
- Centralized Dashboard: Offers a unified interface featuring attack surface details, impact assessments of findings, historical trends, success measures, and a ranked list of issues by severity—highlighting the most critical and high-risk vulnerabilities.
Primary Value and Problem Solved:
CASM addresses the challenge of managing an ever-evolving digital landscape by providing organizations with continuous, real-time visibility into their external attack surface. By combining automated discovery with expert validation, CASM ensures that security teams are not overwhelmed by false positives and can focus on remediating verified, high-risk vulnerabilities. This proactive approach minimizes the window of exploitability, effectively reducing the risk of breaches and enhancing the organization's overall security posture.
