How Sedara ASM Transforms Cybersecurity for Your Business

The Evolution of Cybersecurity: Moving Beyond Traditional Defenses

Cybersecurity has advanced beyond the reliance on firewalls and antivirus software. As cyber threats become more sophisticated and unpredictable, traditional security tools alone are no longer enough. Modern attacks exploit unknown, unmanaged, and overlooked assets, making Attack Surface Management (ASM) essential for a proactive and comprehensive defense.

This is where Attack Surface Management (ASM) comes in. ASM gives organizations real-time visibility across their entire digital environment, helping them identify and address risks before they become breaches. As IT environments grow more complex — spanning cloud platforms, remote devices, and third-party services — ASM delivers the dynamic, adaptive approach organizations need to manage evolving threats.

Sedara ASM offers a modern, automated ASM solution that equips security teams with critical insights, continuous discovery, and actionable intelligence, helping them stay ahead of both known and emerging threats.

For organizations following the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, Sedara ASM supports key principles like identification, detection, and response, reinforcing the importance of proactive attack surface management as part of a well-rounded cybersecurity strategy.

What is Attack Surface Management (ASM)?

Attack Surface Management (ASM) is the continuous process of identifying, monitoring, and securing all digital assets across an organization to reduce cyber risk. Unlike traditional security approaches focusing only on known threats, ASM is designed to uncover unknown, unmanaged, and emerging assets, often presenting the most significant vulnerabilities. Organizations can move from reactive defense to proactive security by maintaining visibility over this evolving attack surface.

Introducing Sedara ASM

Sedara ASM provides a comprehensive, automated platform built to help organizations understand, monitor, and secure their digital footprint in real time. Through deep integrations with existing tools and data sources, including internal systems, cloud platforms, email, endpoints, security telemetry, and SaaS applications, Sedara ASM consolidates asset data into a centralized, normalized view. This unified inventory gives security teams full visibility into the organization’s attack surface and the ability to spot risks as they emerge.

At Sedara, an asset is defined as any resource that can either support or threaten your organization’s cybersecurity posture. Assets include devices, users, software, services, third-party access, policies, roles, IoT devices, SCADA systems, and more. Sedara ASM automatically fingerprints and tracks these assets, ensuring your team always has an up-to-date understanding of your evolving environment.

Once assets are identified and analyzed, automated detections continuously assess their security, evaluating everything from cloud configurations and best practice adherence to risky user behavior, compliance gaps, and weaknesses across your security stack. These assessments feed into a prioritization engine that factors in risk, severity, and business impact, allowing your team to focus on the most pressing vulnerabilities first.

Beyond identifying risks, Sedara ASM also guides your team through remediation. ASM provides precise use-case details for every identified gap, explaining what the risk is, why it matters, and how it could impact your organization. ASM’s remediation workflows offer practical recommendations and allow security teams to act directly within the portal, helping to close gaps faster. Additionally, customizable reporting tools let teams organize, prioritize, and track remediation progress, ensuring no issue gets overlooked.

Key Features of Sedara ASM

• Comprehensive Asset Discovery and Inventory

Sedara ASM automatically discovers and inventories all assets across your organization — including devices, users, software, cloud services, IoT, SCADA systems, and third-party access. By integrating data from existing security tools, ASM normalizes and fingerprints assets into a single, real-time view, helping security teams reduce blind spots and continuously monitor for changes.

• Intelligent Risk Analysis and Prioritization

With automated detections and continuous security assessments, Sedara ASM analyzes vulnerabilities and ranks them based on risk, severity, and business context. This ensures security teams focus on the highest-priority threats, improving response efficiency and overall cyber resilience.

• Actionable Remediation and Reporting

When vulnerabilities are identified, Sedara ASM provides detailed context — including the nature of the risk, why it matters, and its potential impact. With step-by-step remediation guidance and the ability to take action directly from the platform, ASM helps streamline the response process. Customizable reporting also allows teams to organize and prioritize remediation efforts, ensuring that critical gaps are addressed efficiently.

Seamless Integration with Leading Security Technologies

Sedara ASM enhances your security program by integrating directly with various industry-leading technologies, providing complete visibility across your surface. Early integrations include:

• Active Directory
• Duo
• Cisco Meraki
• CrowdStrike
• Cybereason
• Carbon Black
• Sophos
• Okta
• Microsoft Entra
• io
• Sedara NDR
• iBoss
• Kandji

By leveraging data from these existing tools, Sedara ASM creates a unified, real-time view of your assets, risks, and security posture. This seamless integration enhances asset discovery and helps uncover hidden vulnerabilities that may otherwise go undetected, allowing your security team to act with confidence and precision.

ASM vs. Traditional Cybersecurity Solutions

When compared to traditional cybersecurity approaches, ASM offers several clear advantages:

• Automated Threat Detection: Unlike manual processes prone to human error, ASM automates vulnerability detection, making security operations more efficient.
• Proactive Defense Against Emerging Threats: Traditional solutions often focus on known threats, whereas ASM helps businesses detect and mitigate new attack vectors before they can be used to cause harm.
• Improved Compliance Readiness: Organizations must comply with industry regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. Sedara ASM simplifies compliance management by providing clear insights into security posture and regulatory adherence.

For businesses seeking further guidance on securing their digital assets, CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) offers valuable resources on cybersecurity best practices, risk management, and threat intelligence.

Achieve Compliance Goals with Sedara ASM

Meeting regulatory compliance requirements can be complex and time-consuming for any organization. Sedara ASM simplifies this process by providing:

• Continuous asset discovery and tracking to ensure systems meet required security configurations
• Risk assessments mapped to key regulatory standards, helping teams identify and address compliance gaps
• Automated, customizable reports to streamline audit preparation and documentation

With Sedara ASM, businesses can confidently meet compliance goals while strengthening their overall security posture, reducing both regulatory risk and the potential for costly fines or reputational damage.

Real-World Impact: How Businesses Benefit from Sedara ASM

Increased endpoint security coverage by 10% on average.

Sedara rolled out an early version of our ASM tool with multiple existing customers. One of the biggest immediate and measurable impacts was an increase in EDR coverage within their environments. On average, EDR coverage went from 90% up to 99% of endpoints within the environment. The gap stemmed from organizations struggling to know everything they have in their environment, and Sedara’s solution helped multiple customers close this gap.

Organizations across industries are strengthening their cybersecurity posture with Sedara ASM, gaining enhanced visibility, smarter risk prioritization, and streamlined remediation. Here’s how different sectors are seeing real-world benefits:

• Government Agencies: Achieving complete visibility into critical systems and sensitive data, helping prevent cyber espionage and advanced attacks.
• Financial Institutions: Protecting customer data by proactively identifying vulnerabilities and closing security gaps in real time.
• Educational Institutions: Safeguarding complex IT environments from phishing, ransomware, and data breaches through continuous monitoring and risk analysis.

The Future of Cybersecurity: Why ASM is Essential

As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, traditional perimeter-based security approaches are no longer enough. The future of cybersecurity depends on proactive, automated solutions like Attack Surface Management (ASM), which provide continuous visibility and the ability to detect risks before they can escalate into breaches.

Sedara ASM goes beyond basic asset discovery — it provides real-time visibility across your entire environment, intelligently prioritizes risks based on impact and severity, and integrates seamlessly with your existing security tools. This proactive approach helps businesses stay ahead of evolving threats by continuously monitoring their expanding attack surface.

Strengthen Your Cybersecurity with Sedara ASM

Cybersecurity is no longer a one-time project — it’s an ongoing priority. Sedara ASM helps businesses take full control of their security posture, identify and close gaps faster, and build resilience against both known and emerging threats.

Currently, Sedara ASM is only available to our existing customers but will be commercially available later this year. To be notified of its availability, please join the waitlist here.