How to Map Your Digital Footprint: A Guide for Businesses | UpGuard

This document explains digital footprint mapping as a means to identify and secure an organization’s external-facing assets, emphasizing the limitations of internal-only controls and the growing risks across vendors and third parties. It outlines a three-phase approach—discovery of internet-exposed assets and data leaks, mapping interconnections, and assigning severity scores based on risk appetite—while advocating the use of automated attack surface and vendor risk monitoring solutions (e.g., UpGuard) to gain visibility and prioritize remediation.