How U.S. Organizations Have One of the Largest Attack Surfaces Globally

This report argues that U.S. organizations face one of the world’s largest attack surfaces due to extensive cloud and SaaS adoption, identity sprawl, remote/hybrid work, and deep supply-chain integration, evidenced by about **50%** of global ransomware attacks hitting the U.S., record IC3 losses (~**$16B** in 2024), and the highest average breach costs (~**$10.22M**); it highlights thriving dark web markets for U.S.-linked data and access and concludes that closing the external visibility gap across assets, identities, vendors, and underground exposure—via capabilities like SOCRadar ASM, dark web monitoring, supply chain intelligence, and brand protection—is essential to reduce unknown risk.