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Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (EASM)

See your business the way an attacker can.

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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.

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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.

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Real-time inventory

Use dynamic, always-on inventory monitoring to find, analyze, and categorize external-facing resources as they appear.

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Attack surface visibility

Discover external assets across multiple cloud environments, including unknown resources such as shadow IT.

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Exposure detection and prioritization

Uncover vulnerabilities throughout every layer of your external attack surface, including frameworks, web pages, components, and code.

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More secure management for every resource

Help protect newly discovered resources in the Microsoft Defender for Cloud portal.

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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.

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Uncover your external attack surface

Get complete visibility into internet-exposed assets with code-level discovery through a global network that graphs online relationships.

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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.

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Microsoft Security Copilot

Protect at the speed and scale of AI with an assistant powered by generative AI.

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Related products

Use best-in-class Microsoft security products to prevent and detect attacks across your organization.

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Assist in guarding against evolving threats across multicloud and hybrid environments.

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Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence

Help protect your organization from modern adversaries with a comprehensive view of your threat exposure.

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Microsoft Sentinel

See and stop threats across your entire enterprise with intelligent security analytics.

Documentation and training

Blog

Announcement blog

Learn about exciting recent developments in threat intelligence from Microsoft.

Documentation

Documentation

Learn how to deploy and use Defender EASM in your environment.

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Understand your attack surface as it grows and evolves

Learn how Defender EASM gives real-time visibility into your expanding, constantly changing enterprise attack surface.

Protect everything

Make your future more secure. Explore your security options today. 

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