Macnica 's Attack Surface Management service ranks No. 1 in ASM tool market share - Leveraging the knowledge of the Security Research Center to discover unidentified assets and prioritize responses -

Macnica (headquarters: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture; Representative Director and President: Kazumasa Hara; hereinafter referred to as Macnica) announced today that its Attack Surface Management service (hereinafter referred to as ASM service) has achieved the number one share in the ASM tool market (FY2022 results) in the market research report "Network Security Business Research Overview" published in December 2023 by research company Fuji Chimera Research Institute, Macnica

In recent years, the methods of cyberattacks are not attacks via the web/email, which each company has developed countermeasures for, but rather intrusions via RDP that have been carelessly made public, and exploitation of vulnerabilities in VPN devices, servers, etc., which have no countermeasures. This is changing to attacks that target externally disclosed assets that are not yet advanced.
According to statistics from the National Police Agency, in both 2022 and the first half of 2023* ¹, more than 80% of ransomware incidents occurring in Japan were infected via poorly managed external public assets (VPN devices and remote desktops). Become. In addition, various recommendations have been issued by governments and security-related organizations both domestically and internationally, and in May 2023, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry issued the "ASM (Attack Surface Management) Implementation Guidance."
Against this backdrop, Attack Surface Management, which monitors and manages externally disclosed assets, is attracting attention as a cybersecurity measure, and Macnica 's ASM service has achieved the number one market share.

In June 2021, Macnica was the first company in Japan to start providing its own ASM service. This service utilizes the unique knowledge of the Security Research Center and uses human hands and eyes as necessary to conduct accurate and comprehensive investigations. It is now possible to identify assets, including those at overseas locations, such as domains and stray servers that the customer is unaware of, and effectively respond to assets with high risk based on unique risk indicators that take into account the movements of attackers. can do.

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Cybersecurity attacks that exploit publicly available assets are expected to continue in the future. Macnica will continue to provide ASM services to many companies and strive to reduce the probability of incidents caused by publicly available assets by even 1%.

*1: Source: National Police Agency website About the threat situation surrounding cyberspace in 2020 https://www.npa.go.jp/publications/statistics/cybersecurity/data/R04_cyber_jousei.pdf
Source: National Police Agency website About the threat situation surrounding cyberspace in the first half of 2020 https://www.npa.go.jp/publications/statistics/cybersecurity/data/R05_kami_cyber_jousei.pdf

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