Critical Infrastructure Under Siege: Attack Surface Management for French Enterprises

French enterprises face growing cybersecurity risks due to complex IT environments and exposed public-facing assets. Drawing on the French EASM benchmark report, this article explores hidden vulnerabilities additionally extrapolated/highlighted by events like the Paris 2024 Olympics. It examines the financial, operational, and reputational implication of unmonitored assets and highlights how Outpost24’s External Attack Surface Management (EASM) solutions can empower French organizations to detect and secure critical assets in their infrastructure and safeguard these against ever evolving threats.

A single unmonitored exposed IT asset is all it takes to compromise an entire organization. Hence IT asset monitoring is one of the key strategies that keeps proactive cybersecurity efforts up and running across businesses.

However, with the growing reliance on cloud platforms, third-party vendors, and remote operations, the number of IT assets to be monitored, both internal and external has widened. And the wider it gets, the greater the attack ...