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4. Shadow IT

Shadow IT refers to the digital parts of an organization that people do not know about. This is caused by
rapid digitization or due to inaccuracies during updates and adjustments. Shadow IT can add to costs
and create an insecure cluster of online traces that can lead cybercriminals to your organization.

5. Increase your resilience through attack surface hygiene

The Sweepatic Platform provides visibility, tracks your digital assets, and analyzes issues in your attack
surface by priority. Primary domains, subdomains, IP addresses, subnetworks, DNS records and
locations are discovered and analyzed structurally and systematically. This way you will quickly discover
dubious and/or unknown elements of your digital footprint.

6. Tackle risks in a smart way

You can get started reducing your risk right away with the actionable information that the Sweepatic
Platform provides. In addition, implementing following approaches in your organization helps you build
cyber resilience in a sustainable way.

7. Understanding

To thoroughly understand your attack surface, it is not enough to perform a one-time exercise. An attack
surface and its risk exposure changes every day; technologies can become outdated, website certificates
can expire, etc. Keep an eye continuously and in a structured way to ensure a real-time overview of all
hosts and web applications that you use, for example.

8. More automation

Many cyber security tasks are repetitive. Rely on technology, such as machine learning algorithms, to
perform these types of tasks. Less human error, speed and more scale are just some of the benefits of
automated solutions, like the Sweepatic Platform. One of the biggest advantages is that you can use the
talents of your scarce specialists to focus on other tasks to make your organization stronger in other
ways.

9. Less complexity

By keeping an eye on your attack surface, you can continuously assess where to slim down your
organization digitally and to simplify systematically. Keep asking yourself the question: "How can we

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