Skip to content

Commit a18edca

Browse files
committed
added tals comments to easm
1 parent 5641e08 commit a18edca

File tree

2 files changed

+7
-6
lines changed

2 files changed

+7
-6
lines changed

articles/defender-for-cloud/concept-easm.md

Lines changed: 7 additions & 6 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -2,20 +2,21 @@
22
title: External attack surface management (EASM)
33
description: Learn about Defender for Cloud integration with Defender External attack surface management (EASM) to enhance security and reduce the risk of attacks.
44
ms.topic: concept-article
5-
ms.date: 07/02/2024
5+
ms.date: 07/03/2024
66
#customer intent: As a reader, I want to learn about the integration between Defender for Cloud and Defender External attack surface management (EASM) so that I can enhance my organization's security.
77
---
88

99
# External attack surface management (EASM)
1010

11-
Microsoft Defender for Cloud's integration with Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (EASM), allows organizations to improve their security posture while reducing the potential risk of being attacked by exploring their external attack surface.
11+
Microsoft Defender for Cloud's integration with Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (DEASM), allows organizations to improve their security posture while reducing the potential risk of being attacked by exploring their external attack surface. The integration is included with the Defender for Cloud Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) plan by default and doesn't require a license from DEASM or any special configurations.
1212

1313
Defender EASM applies Microsoft’s crawling technology to discover assets that are related to your known online infrastructure, and actively scans these assets to discover new connections over time. Attack Surface Insights are generated by applying vulnerability and infrastructure data to showcase the key areas of concern for your organization, such as:
1414

15-
- Discover digital assets, always-on inventory
16-
- Analyze and prioritize risks and threats
17-
- Pinpoint attacker-exposed weaknesses, anywhere and on-demand
18-
- Gain visibility into third-party attack surfaces
15+
- Discover of all the internet facing cloud resources through the use of an outside-in scan
16+
- Attack path analysis which finds all exploitable paths starting from internet exposed IPs
17+
- Custom queries that correlate all internet exposed IPs with the rest of Defender for Cloud data in the cloud security explorer
18+
19+
:::image type="content" source="media/concept-easm/cloud-security-explorer.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the cloud security explorer page in the Defender for Cloud portal." lightbox="media/concept-easm/cloud-security-explorer.png":::
1920

2021
With this information, security and IT teams are able to identify unknowns, prioritize risks, eliminate threats, and extend vulnerability and exposure control beyond the firewall. The attack surface is made up of all the points of access that an unauthorized person could use to enter their system. The larger your attack surface is, the harder it's to protect.
2122

202 KB
Loading

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)