NetSPI’s Insights from Forrester’s Attack Surface Management Solutions Landscape, Q2 2024

TL;DR

Forrester analyzed several attack surface management (ASM) vendors varying in size, type of offering, and use cases in its landscape report, The Attack Surface Management Solutions Landscape, Q2 2024. The NetSPI Platform was named by Forrester among notable vendors in the report for its Attack Surface Management solution.

The State of Attack Surface Management

ASM has grown exponentially over the last few years. Now a recognized market category, it equips businesses with crucial security strategies for comprehensive visibility into their attack surface. According to Forrester’s research, “ASM delivers insights on assets that ultimately support business objectives, keep the lights on, generate revenue, and delight customers.”  

NetSPI ASM allows you to inventory, contextualize, and prioritize assets and vulnerabilities on your internal and external attack surface with confidence and ease. Our ASM solution is backed by NetSPI’s team of dedicated security experts to help you discover, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities of the highest importance, so you can protect what matters most to your business. 

Forrester on Choosing the Best ASM Solution

ASM is the first step in a proactive security program because it gives security teams a holistic view of your attack surface. Forrester defines ASM as “solutions that continuously identify, assess, and manage the cybersecurity context of an entity’s IT asset estate.” ASM allows your business to more clearly identify assets, establish and maintain the basics of a strong security system, and lay the groundwork for exposure management.  

Ideally, your ASM will offer both external attack surface management (EASM), which focuses on externally facing assets, and cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM), covering internally facing assets. This combination of EASM and CAASM provides both external and internal visibility to give you a complete picture of your assets. Additionally, the best ASM solutions will aid you in prioritizing risks specific to your business, guiding remediation steps, and integrating seamlessly into your environment. 

Opt For an All-In-One ASM Solution

When choosing an ASM partner, take into account the market dynamics in light of your current business challenges. Currently, the main market trend is ASM being delivered as part of a platform. This platform model gives security teams access to key proactive security solutions in a single technology. After all, no one likes switching programs to consolidate data.

In 2024, the ASM market’s top challenge is not the lack of visibility into the attack surface as you might expect, but the number of sources of visibility. The information your security teams are looking to track is spread over too many sources, adding friction to gaining a comprehensive picture of the full attack surface.

A platform model addresses the challenge of technical debt by consolidating the security tech stack and optimizing the use of an ASM solution. This trend of consolidating solutions into a single platform will continue in the coming years as security teams face tighter budgets and look to get the most value of their current investments. 

NetSPI integrated our cornerstone solutions on The NetSPI Platform to equip security teams with a single proactive security solution. ASM, penetration testing as a service (PTaaS), and breach and attack simulation (BAS) are all delivered through NetSPI’s Platform, putting users one step closer to continuous threat exposure management (CTEM).  

Enhance Attack Surface Visibility with NetSPI

In its report, Forrester noted:

“The future and value of ASM is bringing these capabilities into a single view, meaning ASM has evolved into an established market that:  

• Relies less on external discovery and more on continuous posture evaluation.
• Contains a growing number of suppliers with substantial category crossover.
• Aggregates common discovery capabilities.”

The true value of ASM lies in its ability to deliver a real-time, always-on, comprehensive depiction of the complete attack surface.  

When used together, NetSPI EASM and NetSPI CAASM check all the boxes by delivering complete attack surface visibility, always-on coverage, and deep data context. NetSPI’s Platform can inventory both internal and external assets and vulnerabilities as they are added to your environment, eliminating manual discovery and maintaining an accurate list for you and your team.  

NetSPI’s always-on monitoring capabilities ensure your attack surface is protected around the clock. These real-time updates allow you to inventory assets and tackle vulnerabilities as they arise, significantly reducing risk. NetSPI’s Platform shows descriptions, severity, attack paths, blast radius, and more throughout your entire attack surface to implement informed decision-making, prioritization, and resource allocation.