Continuous Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management for Splunk

Identify and secure your entire cyber asset attack surface in real-time, using Splunk®.

What is Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM)?

Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) is a proactive approach to cybersecurity that involves identifying, evaluating, and managing the various components of an organization’s technology infrastructure, to minimize risk exposure and protect against cyberattacks.

The attack surface refers to the points of vulnerability in an organization’s IT environment that could be exploited by an attacker to gain unauthorized access or cause harm.

How is Aura Asset Intelligence Different?

Aura leverages Splunk, along with a unique data streaming discovery approach that results in the most real-time CAASM solution in the industry. Aura is the only solution that continually discovers your assets using real-time data from your existing systems and data sources. Aura can discover assets as soon as they are connected to the network. Patented logic correlates and aggregates asset data from these multiple sources of record to create a single source of truth, that accurately exposes your entire cyber asset attack surface.

In addition, a full discovery activity history identifies precisely who was associated with what asset and when, which is critical during cybersecurity investigations. Finally, Aura continually assesses compliance with your endpoint security controls and immediately identifies gaps as soon as they occur.

Aura AI Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM)

Why Do I Need a CAASM Like Aura Asset Intelligence?

Company networks are no longer self-contained and are now a complex mix of on-premise, cloud, mobile, and remote. In addition to company owned devices, workers are bringing their own devices or using evolving and emerging technologies. This new normal has greatly extended the cyber asset attack surface, putting organizations that struggle to manage all these assets at risk of attack.

You may already have an asset management or discovery solution in place. However, these typical asset solutions are not designed to address today’s needs and suffer from several key challenges including:

Inaccurate, Stale, or Incomplete Data – asset management solutions are often manually updated and even asset discovery solutions are ineffective, as they use scanners or require agents to be deployed. Scanners may not have full network coverage and agents can only be deployed to the assets you already know about.
Prolong Security Investigations – investigations can take hours or days when assets are unknown or there is no understanding of who was associated with what asset and when. This can delay important decision making and extend cyber attacks.
Missing Gaps in Security Controls – without a full understanding of your entire cyber asset attack surface, it is impossible to identify any gaps in your security controls. These gaps go undetected and put you at risk of potential attack.

What Does Aura Asset Intelligence Provide?

Aura Asset Intelligence was designed and developed by cybersecurity experts, with first-hand experience of the asset challenges Aura solves. Aura delivers an impressive array of powerful features including:

Data Streaming Asset Discovery – Aura uses a unique, real-time data streaming approach to discover and build incredibly accurate and complete inventories of your network assets that continually update over time.
Powerful Asset Investigations – Aura’s interactive investigation capabilities provide security teams with holistic asset context and awareness, including asset health, network activity and associations.
Activity History for Every Asset – Aura’s full activity history adds critical asset context to your security events, helps identify anomalous activity, highlights asset changes over time and tracks discovery dates and locations.
Continuous Endpoint Compliance – Aura continually monitors your cyber assets to deliver visibility into your overall security attack surface posture, identify gaps in your security controls and track compliance over time.
Integrate and Enrich – Integrate Aura with your SIEM or asset management (CMDB) solutions to enrich them with accurate asset data and context, allowing your IT and Cybersecurity teams to make better, faster decisions.

Who Benefits from Aura Asset Intelligence?

Aura benefits many teams from across Cybersecurity and Information Technology.

CISOs – Gain a full and accurate understanding of true security posture, quickly understand compliance against security controls and the progress in remediating identified gaps.
IT Operations – Complete and accurate visibility across all network assets. Legacy, unpatched or unmanaged assets can be identified and dealt with appropriately and CMDBs enriched with asset data and context.
Security Investigators – Greatly accelerate their investigations, adding much needed context to security incidents and immediately identify the who, what and when. This allows for better and faster decision making.
Security Analysts – Instant access to complete inventory of assets and any associated IPs, MACs, Users, Software and Vulnerabilities. Continued identification of gaps in endpoint security controls to remediate for risk reduction.

Anything Else?

Yes, in summary, Aura Asset Intelligence is a leading CAASM that helps overcome the problems associated with inaccurate, incomplete, and siloed IT solutions. Aura provides complete asset visibility, whether assets are on-premise, remote or in the cloud. This gives you full exposure and understanding of your entire attack surface and quickly identifies gaps in your security controls for remediation, to reduce the risk of attack.

If you want to try Aura Asset Intelligence today, please sign up for our online Sandbox. Alternatively, you can contact us to talk to an expert to discuss your use cases, ask questions or learn more.