Attack surface

Attack surface

The attack surface of a software environment is the scope of functionality that is available to any application user, particularly unauthenticated users.

This includes, but is not limited to:
* User input fields
* Protocols
* Interfaces
* Services

One approach to improving information security is to reduce the attack surface, making a piece of software harder to attack. However, this approach does little to mitigate the amount of damage a determined attacker can inflict once a vulnerability is found.

See also

*Vulnerability (computing)
*Computer security

References

External links

* [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163882.aspx Mitigate Security Risks by Minimizing the Code You Expose to Untrusted Users] on MSDN
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pratyus/as.html Attack Surface Measurement]
* [http://www.cylab.cmu.edu/default.aspx?id=2122 Attack Surface Measurement] at Carnegie Mellon CyLab


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