What 45 Days of Watching Your Own Tools Will Tell You About Your Real Attack Surface

Bitdefender introduces a 45-day Internal Attack Surface Assessment program to identify and reduce organizational exposure to legitimate-tool abuse by attackers.

• •Modern threat actors prefer using trusted IT administration tools like PowerShell and WMIC rather than traditional malware, found in 84% of high-severity incidents
• •Windows 11 ships with 133 living-off-the-land binaries across 987 instances, creating an over-entitlement problem that cannot be patched
• •The assessment runs through four phases: behavioral learning, dashboard review, optional reduction sprint, and final review using GravityZone PHASR technology
• •Early-access customers achieved 30-70% attack surface reduction in the first 30 days without disrupting end-users or requiring additional investigation overhead

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