Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (EASM)
See your business the way an attacker can.
Defender EASM capabilities are now available in Copilot in Azure
Get AI-driven insights on risky assets within your external attack surface and convert natural language into corresponding inventory queries across all discovered data.
Continuous visibility beyond the firewall
See your rapidly changing, global external attack surface in real time with Defender EASM.
Discover unmanaged resources
Understand the full extent of your attack surface, including shadow IT and assets created through common, everyday business growth.
Multicloud visibility
Maintain a dynamic inventory of external resources across multiple cloud and hybrid environments.
Identify exposed weaknesses
Prioritize vulnerabilities and misconfigurations hidden in unmanaged resources, then bring the resources under management to remove those exposures.
The external attack surface management challenge
In this era of hybrid work, shadow IT creates an increasingly serious security risk. Defender EASM helps cloud security teams see unknown and unmanaged resources outside the firewall.
Capabilities
Discover, classify, and prioritize exposed weaknesses in the cloud, software as a service (SaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) resources to strengthen security posture.
Real-time inventory
Use dynamic, always-on inventory monitoring to find, analyze, and categorize external-facing resources as they appear.
Attack surface visibility
Discover external assets across multiple cloud environments, including unknown resources such as shadow IT.
Exposure detection and prioritization
Uncover vulnerabilities throughout every layer of your external attack surface, including frameworks, web pages, components, and code.
More secure management for every resource
Help protect newly discovered resources in the Microsoft Defender for Cloud portal.
Attack surface insights at generative AI speeds
Get an AI-assisted view into risky assets, quickly drill through asset details, and convert natural language into corresponding inventory queries across all discovered data.
Uncover your external attack surface
Get complete visibility into internet-exposed assets with code-level discovery through a global network that graphs online relationships.
Defender EASM insights across security solutions
Make informed decisions to secure your digital estate. Get generative AI assisted external attack surface insights and quickly find risky assets and associated vulnerabilities and gain insight into your external risk posture in a unified, end-to-end view.
Microsoft Copilot for Security
Protect at the speed and scale of AI with a generative-AI powered assistant.
Microsoft Security Exposure Management
Reduce risk and limit exposure of your most critical assets with unified exposure management.
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