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Attack Surface Manager
Reduce your attack surface and block malicious
lateral movement of human-operated ransomware
by removing extraneous credentials, connections,
and high-risk pathways with perpetual discovery and
selective automation from Illusive Attack Surface
Manager (ASM) and Azure AD.
Ransomware’s focus has shifted from It’s key to note how human-operated
being aimed at consumers to highly ransomware takes advantage of
targeted attacks on enterprises, privileged identities to achieve
leveraging tactics and techniques taken its objectives. After successfully
from the Advanced Persistent Threat luring an employee with a phishing
(APT) playbook. These sophisticated email containing malware, a human
threats combine a traditional attacker landing on that endpoint
ransomware attack with a data breach, will immediately look for privileged
moving toward high-value assets once credentials available for exploitation,
inside a network. Rather than take over to raise access levels, and then move
a single endpoint for quick financial laterally toward high-value assets.
gain, the new game focuses on a low Reducing the number of privileged
and slow lateral movement approach identities accessible on endpoints is
to reach critical data with the aim of critical to slowing down or stopping that
wholesale lockdown of entire systems ― human attacker from achieving success.
a catastrophic business outcome if not
discovered and stopped in time.
