---
id: 734
title: "What is an Attack Surface?"
source_domain: bugcrowd.com
source_url: "https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/what-is-an-attack-surface/"
published_at: "2024-08-08 16:42"
tags: ["attack-surface", "risk-management", "bugcrowd", "basics", "shadow-it", "ciso"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/734"
lang: en
---

# What is an Attack Surface?

## Summary

Bugcrowd breaks the attack surface into digital, physical, and human components, explaining how shadow IT and expanding perimeters make continuous asset mapping and vulnerability scanning essential.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bugcrowd.com
- **Published:** 2024-08-08 16:42
- **Original:** https://www.bugcrowd.com/blog/what-is-an-attack-surface/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/734