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

A cybersecurity professional spent 45 days monitoring their own organization's tools and infrastructure to understand what attackers actually see when targeting their systems. The exercise revealed critical gaps in visibility and highlighted how the actual attack surface often differs significantly from what security teams think they're protecting. This kind of "attacker's eye view" approach is being recommended as a way to build more realistic security strategies and identify vulnerabilities before they're exploited in real breaches.