Cybersecurity Compass · Before a Breach

The attack surface is a living three dimensional figure.

Asset Categories on one axis, Attack Tactics & Techniques on another, Cyber Risk as height. The colors are not fixed. Risk rises and falls across the surface in real time, peaks erupt where exposure concentrates, and the blue fog of the unknown spreads faster than anyone is watching.

CRML
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low risk, the wide plain elevated, the broad mass sharp peaks, concentrated risk unknown surface, not yet discovered

Cyber Risk is never still. By the time a periodic snapshot is read, the surface it described has already changed shape.

A living surface is read continuously, asset by asset. That continuous reading is part of the Cyber Risk Management Lifecycle (CRML).

Created and Designed by Juan Pablo Castro Vilaró
Current Cybersecurity Operating Models Do Not Operate at the Speed and Acceleration of the Attack Surface DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12744.07687