December Webinar Recap, COVID Impact on Attack Surface Management

This webinar recap reviews how the COVID-19 pandemic has expanded attack surfaces—highlighting a distributed workforce, increased phishing, and financially motivated cybercrime—and focuses on SMB exposure as a persistent and dangerous attack vector. Using Censys data the presenters note that 17.4% of Internet-exposed SMB is still running SMBv1, discuss historical SMB-exploiting malware (EternalBlue, WannaCry, Emotet, TrickBot), and recommend identifying internal/external SMB exposures, disabling Internet-exposed SMB, and phasing out SMBv1/2.