What Is a Website Attack Surface? A Beginner’s Guide to Reducing Risk
Sucuri's beginner guide explains how logins, plugins, APIs, and forgotten backups expand a website's attack surface and how to reduce that risk.
Sucuri published educational guidance explaining that login pages, contact forms, plugins, APIs, staging sites, and forgotten backups each add exposed components that constitute a website's attack surface. The article frames continuous attack surface reduction as a risk management practice for website owners. It is evergreen educational content rather than breaking incident news.
- Logins, forms, plugins, and APIs each add exposed elements to manage
- Forgotten staging sites and backups can remain internet-accessible
Each feature that you add to a website results in a new element that has to be managed. The credentials are accepted by a login page, the data by a contact form, new code is introduced by a plugin, and an API is used to connect your website to another service. It is also possible that an old staging site or a forgotten backup may still be accessible from the internet. The collection of these exposed components constitutes your website attack surface. Continue reading What Is a Website Attack Surface? A Beginner’s Guide to Reducing Risk at Sucuri Blog.
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