Accenture forges own path to improve attack surface management [Video]

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Accenture’s award-winning attack surface management program strengthens the company’s resiliency and security posture.

As a global consulting and technology company, Accenture understands how quickly an attack surface can grow and become vulnerable to cyber threats.

“We’ve always had a strong security posture, but as we’ve been growing, we noticed that we had weaknesses in our defenses,” says Kristian Burkhardt, Accenture CISO. 

To achieve complete visibility of its IP estate, Accenture merged various technologies into a custom ASM (attack surface management) program. Burkhardt describes the program as “integrating a set of tools into a process” that combines penetration testing, customized scans, and attack simulations with human creativity and teamwork.

The need for complete attack surface visibility

In order to build an attack surface management framework, says Burkhardt, an organization must first have:

• Tech hygiene — making sure your infrastructure, cloud objects, and workstations are configured, patched, and hardened against attacks. 
• Strong asset management — knowing all the assets you own, …