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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                              Illusive’s integration with Azure Active               eliminate attacker pathways toward
        a single endpoint for quick financial                   laterally toward high-value assets.                                Directory gives organizations the                      critical systems. This is accomplished

        gain, the new game focuses on a low                     Reducing the number of privileged                                  tools they need to detect and disarm                   through a continuous process of

        and slow lateral movement approach                      identities accessible on endpoints is                              ransomware attackers before they                       identifying and removing extraneous
        to reach critical data with the aim of                  critical to slowing down or stopping that                          can execute their payloads. With ASM,                  credentials, connections, and pathways

        wholesale lockdown of entire systems ―                  human attacker from achieving success.                             you gain visibility into Azure AD policy               that human-operated ransomware

        a catastrophic business outcome if not                                                                                     violations that the targeted ransomware                attacks use to move within a network.

        discovered and stopped in time.                                                                                            could potentially leverage, and then
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