Bitdefender introduced Bitdefender Attack Surface Assessment, a free evaluation designed to help organizations uncover and mitigate hidden internal cyber risks stemming from excessive user access to applications, tools, and operating system utilities often exploited in modern attacks. The assessment delivers a clear, data-driven view of an organization’s internal attack surface, along with practical recommendations to prioritize and address vulnerabilities.
Businesses face growing challenges defending against Living-Off-the-Land (LOTL), fileless, and other non-malware attack techniques, which leverage legitimate operating system tools and trusted applications to breach systems and evade detection while blending into normal activity.
Analysis of more than 700,000 real-world security incidents found that legitimate tools and LOTL techniques are involved in more than 84% of major attacks. Cybercriminals increasingly exploit widely available utilities such as PowerShell, WMIC, and others to gain access, escalate privileges and move laterally within environments undetected. As a result, organizations are being forced to shift toward a prevention-first security posture to proactively close attack paths before they can be exploited.
The Bitdefender Attack Surface Assessment addresses this critical security gap through a guided engagement that helps organizations uncover this largely invisible internal exposure, assess its impact on overall risk and identify practical steps for remediation. Organizations enroll and immediately begin assessing and monitoring their environment with no disruption to employees or daily operations. The program is powered by Bitdefender GravityZone PHASR (Proactive Hardening and Attack Surface Reduction), a first-to-market endpoint security innovation that combines dynamic, behavior-based security hardening with real-time threat intelligence. It helps identify excessive user access and restrict or block unnecessary applications and tools without impacting business operations.
Key Benefits of the Attack Surface Assessment include:
- Quantify internal risk at the user level – Gain precise visibility into attack surface exposure down to each user, including access to applications, tools and utilities, mapped against their baseline behavior and real-time threat intelligence.
- Identify shadow IT and unauthorized tools – Uncover shadow IT and unauthorized tools, including unusual network activity, access to non-approved binaries, and unrecognized applications attempting to access company resources.
- Reduce the attack surface using actionable insights – Receive actionable recommendations to focus mitigation and begin hardening the internal attack surface, with the option to apply controls manually or automatically with Bitdefender guidance. Organizations can reduce their attack surface by up to 95%, significantly lowering exposure to modern attack techniques.
“Cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting legitimate applications and system tools to bypass traditional defenses, creating a growing and often invisible attack surface that is difficult to defend,” said Andrei Florescu, president and general manager at Bitdefender Business Solutions Group. “The Bitdefender Attack Surface Assessment Program gives organizations a clear, data-driven view of these risks and a path to remediation. We are offering this program at no cost to help level the playing field by enabling organizations to identify and close critical gaps in their internal attack surface as adversaries rapidly shift their tactics.”
Availability
To learn more or enroll: The Bitdefender Attack Surface Assessment is a complimentary, 45-day turnkey program that requires minimal effort and is available now for organizations with 250 or more employees.
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