DIGITAL FOOTPRINT MAPPING
Your digital footprint is a unique set of traceable digital activities, actions, and communications displayed on the internet. As your organization grows, so does your digital footprint. The increasing remote workforce has intensified shadow IT and it is nearly impossible for security teams to be able to track and stay abreast of the organizational attack surface.
By using your organization’s digital footprint, cybercriminals can exploit your organization for financial gain by phishing for account access, creating false identities/accounts, and/or stealing sensitive data.
Organizational Digital Footprint Examples:
- Servers
- Cloud-Based Hosting Providers
- IP Addresses/Websites
- Email Domains
Organizations are composed of the sum of its employees, which makes the fact that 60% of internet users say they are not worried about how much information is available about them online, a scary statistic
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Digital footprint mapping is critical because your digital presence is your largest attack vector. Out of the box anti-virus computer protection is not enough to safeguard your digital footprint from cyber criminals.