Attack Surface Management: Mapping and Reducing Your Exposure
A comprehensive guide to external attack surface management (EASM) covering continuous asset discovery, shadow IT identification, cloud misconfiguration detection, certificate and DNS monitoring, third-party risk from digital supply chains, exposure prioritization frameworks, and tooling comparison across commercial platforms (Censys, Shodan, CyCognito, Mandiant ASM, Microsoft Defender EASM) and open-source alternatives. Includes practical implementation workflows for reducing organizational attack surface from thousands of unknown exposures to a managed, monitored inventory.

June 13, 2026