Recently, Expanse scanned the attack surface of various semiconductor organizations and analyzed traffic flows on networks of the world’s ten largest semiconductor organizations. Previously, our research covered internet risks associated with the world’s largest Financial Services and Healthcare organizations. The semiconductor industry is a strategic and critical industry because its products are used in computing… Continue reading…
Michael is the Head of Cyber Risk at Expanse. He leads a large team of analysts who identify vulnerabilities in large Fortune 500 companies and government agencies’ vast online presence. He also has 14 years of FBI experience as a Special Agent, leading extensive investigations of cyber threat actor sets. The COVID-19 pandemic has created… Continue reading…
We’ll start at the beginning. According to ISO 27002, a vulnerability is “a weakness of an asset or group of assets that can be exploited by one or more threats.” The SANS Institute goes on to summarize Vulnerability Management as “the process in which vulnerabilities in IT are identified and the risks of these vulnerabilities… Continue reading…
Expanse is pleased to welcome our new Chief Revenue Officer, Kane Lightowler. Kane has previously held senior leadership roles with VMware Carbon Black and Imperva, where he successfully led and scaled global sales teams. He has a wealth of experience growing cybersecurity organizations globally, and shares the Expanse vision of making the Internet a safer… Continue reading…
Having complete visibility into and control of your global external attack surface is a necessity — not least because Chinese state actors are actively targeting exposed devices in the U.S. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency just published a new advisory stating that Chinese Ministry of State Security-affiliated cyber actors are actively performing reconnaissance and… Continue reading…
Continuous improvements to existing ransomware have made the need for visibility into your organization’s external attack surface more critical than ever. According to the FBI and IC3, “Ransomware attacks are becoming more targeted, sophisticated, and costly, even as the overall frequency of attacks remains consistent. Since early 2018, the incidence of broad, indiscriminate ransomware campaigns… Continue reading…
This summer, I worked as an intern at Expanse, on the team that builds our data collection technology. The team performs scanning of the whole Internet to discover unprotected assets so that we can help our customers keep their networks safe from would-be attackers. My summer project was to build a device to actually detect… Continue reading…
Expanse is excited to announce a new milestone in the evolution of our product suite with the release of Issues, a new and improved way to manage your global attack surface in Expander. The Issues module makes it easier and faster for security teams to manage Internet-facing risks. Expanse created Issues to provide customers… Continue reading…
Expanse is pleased to announce our new integration between Expander and Jira Cloud, an industry leader in IT service management (ITSM) software. Many Expander customers use Jira Cloud to manage issues (tickets) around security incidents. This new integration will make it easy for customers to automatically generate new issues in Jira Cloud based on new… Continue reading…