External Attack Surface
Your own attack surface
Unknown IT assets, publicly reachable services, misconfigurations and undetected vulnerabilities can open up new opportunities for attackers.
Do you know what attackers can see of your organization?
QSEIDON ATLAS · Cyber Exposure Intelligence
Do you know your suppliers’ cyber creditworthiness?
A cyber incident at a critical business partner can bring your own processes to a standstill – even if your own IT is excellently protected.
QSEIDON ATLAS combines the view of your external attack surface with the cyber risks of your suppliers and business partners.
Identify external risks, understand critical dependencies and prioritize action where it matters most to your business.
- External Attack Surface Management
- Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management
- Continuous Monitoring
The challenge
Your perimeter is no longer your boundary.
Even if your own IT is excellently protected, cyber risks outside your organization can have a significant impact on your business processes.
Because your digital attack surface doesn’t end at your own systems.
Cyber Supply Chain Risk
Your suppliers and business partners
Critical suppliers, external service providers and technology partners bring their own cyber risks. A security incident can impair their ability to deliver and, in turn, affect your business processes.
Do you know which cyber risks your critical suppliers bring with them?
Two risk dimensions. One connected view.
QSEIDON ATLAS combines the view of your external attack surface with an assessment of your supplier risks. This creates the foundation for better understanding cyber risks and business dependencies.
Cyber Creditworthiness
You check your suppliers’ financial creditworthiness. Why not their cyber creditworthiness?
A business partner’s financial stability is an established decision criterion. But their cybersecurity can also be critical to the stability of your own business processes.
QSEIDON ATLAS applies the idea of a creditworthiness assessment to cyber risk – based on externally observable risk signals and taking business dependencies into account.
Financial creditworthiness
“How financially reliable is my business partner?”
Companies use financial information and credit ratings to better assess economic risks in business relationships.
An established decision criterion.
Cyber creditworthiness
“What cyber risks does my business partner carry?”
ATLAS uses externally observable security signals to make an organization’s cyber risk posture easier to understand.
An additional perspective on business risk.
What ATLAS does with it
The idea: cyber risks should not only be visible to security experts, but also understandable and usable for business decisions.
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Identify cyber risks
ATLAS looks at externally observable risk signals, such as exposed services, known vulnerabilities and other indicators of the external security posture.
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Assess cyber creditworthiness
The observable risks form the basis for assessing an organization’s cyber risk posture in a structured and comprehensible way.
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Understand business relevance
A supplier’s risk posture is viewed in the context of its importance to your organization and your dependencies on it. This makes it clearer which risks deserve particular attention.
Identifying cyber risks is the first step. Understanding what they mean for your business makes the difference.
ATLAS helps translate technical security signals into understandable, actionable information for business decisions.
The platform
One platform. Two perspectives.
QSEIDON ATLAS combines External Attack Surface Management with Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management. This keeps both your own external attack surface and the cyber risks of your suppliers and business partners in view.
Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management
Understand supplier risks
Assess the externally observable cyber risks of your business partners and view them in relation to your business dependencies.
- Suppliers’ cyber risk posture
- Critical dependencies
- Risk-based prioritization
See which business partners deserve particular attention.
External Attack Surface Management
Your own attack surface in view
Identify your organization’s publicly visible systems, exposed services and known vulnerabilities, and prioritize the risks that matter.
- External assets and services
- Vulnerabilities and risk signals
- Continuous monitoring
Understand where your organization could be vulnerable from the outside.
A shared view of external cyber risks – inside and outside your organization.
Business Impact
Their incident.Your business interruption.
A cyberattack doesn’t have to target your organization to disrupt your business. When a critical supplier is affected, the consequences can reach your own operations.
A possible scenario
Supplier cyberattack
A critical supplier falls victim to a cyberattack.
Service or supply disruption
Production or delivery is impaired – required components or services don’t arrive on time.
Business impact
Your own production or other dependent business processes can slow down or come to a halt.
Which suppliers are critical – and where should you act first?
QSEIDON ATLAS helps you view your business partners’ cyber risks in the context of business dependencies and prioritize risks in a targeted way.
Continuous Visibility
A snapshot is already outdated.
Your cyber risk landscape is constantly changing – and so is that of your suppliers. New systems, vulnerabilities and supplier exposures can change your risk picture within a short time.
Today
A security assessment provides a risk picture for this point in time.
New cloud service
A new publicly reachable service expands the external attack surface.
New vulnerability
A newly disclosed vulnerability changes the risk assessment of a system.
New supplier exposure
New external risk signals become visible at a critical business partner.
Tomorrow
The original assessment may no longer fully reflect the changed risk landscape.
Cyber resilience requires continuous visibility.
QSEIDON ATLAS helps organizations monitor changes in their external cyber exposure and supplier ecosystem, enabling risk-informed prioritization as conditions evolve.
Actionable Risk Intelligence
From risk signals to informed decisions.
QSEIDON ATLAS helps you put technical cyber risks and business dependencies into context so you can set well-founded priorities. What matters is not only which risks exist, but which ones need attention first.
Technical risk posture
- Exposed services and systems
- Known vulnerabilities
- Severity and exploit likelihood
- Other relevant risk signals
Business context
- Supplier criticality
- Business dependencies
- Relevance to key business processes
Result
Risk-based prioritization
Together, both perspectives show which risks, systems or suppliers deserve particular attention.
A traceable assessment instead of gut feeling. The assessment of external technical risks on your own attack surface takes into account, among other factors, severity (CVSS), exploit likelihood (EPSS), known exploits and the age of findings.
What you use ATLAS for
Prioritize critical suppliers
See which business partners deserve particular attention based on their externally observable cyber risk posture and your business dependencies.
Focus security efforts
Use external risk signals to prioritize the review and hardening of particularly relevant systems – for example as a basis for targeted penetration tests.
Support management decisions
Translate technical risk information into clear decision support for executives, IT security, procurement and risk management.
Get started with QSEIDON ATLAS
Your suppliers’ risk is your risk.
Gain visibility into your external attack surface and your business partners’ cyber creditworthiness. Discover how QSEIDON ATLAS helps you understand critical risks and business dependencies and prioritize what matters most.
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