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exposure-management/initiatives-list.md

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 This initiative aims to reflect the status around cloud security coverage, ROI, health, configuration, and performance. It consists of measurements across multiple domains and disciplines to provide security managers with a high-level view into how posture is enforced in cloud ops.
 
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+> The current Cloud initiative will be deprecated soon. A new Cloud initiative will be available soon. Please use it for updates and support.
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 ## Critical Asset Protection
 
 Critical asset protection refers to the strategies, processes, and technologies implemented to safeguard an organization's most valuable and important assets from various threats and risks. It involves identifying, prioritizing, and applying targeted security measures to ensure the resilience and integrity of these critical assets.
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 ## External Attack Surface Protection
 
-The External Attack Surface Initiative in Microsoft Security Exposure Management uses Defender EASM to continuously discover and map your digital attack surface, providing an external view of your online infrastructure. This helps security and IT teams identify unknown assets, prioritize risks, eliminate threats, and extend control beyond the firewall.
+The External Attack Surface Management (EASM) initiative in Microsoft Security Exposure Management uses Defender EASM to continuously discover and map your digital attack surface, providing an external view of your online infrastructure. This helps security and IT teams identify unknown assets, prioritize risks, eliminate threats, and extend control beyond the firewall.
 
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-> This initiative provides high-level insights without a full connection to the MDEASM subscription and supports pre-built footprints only.
+> This initiative provides high-level insights without a full connection to the MDEASM subscription and supports prebuilt footprints only.
 
 [Learn more here.](https://aka.ms/xspm/EasmLearnMore)
 
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 This initiative serves as a central hub for security managers to continuously assess and analyze vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across the organization's digital landscape. In the Vulnerability Assessment initiative users can actively identify, prioritize, track, and delegate vulnerabilities with in the IT infrastructure and the cloud. Users gain real-time visibility into the security posture of their organization, enabling data-driven decision-making for resource investment and placement. This collaborative environment ensures a holistic approach to vulnerability management, empowering stakeholders to proactively strengthen their security defenses, reduce the attack surface, and enhance overall resilience against evolving cyber threats.
 
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+> The Vulnerability Assessment initiative will be deprecated soon, as it is now part of the new Cloud initiative. Use the new Cloud initiative for updates and support.
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 ## Zero Trust (Foundational)
 
 Zero Trust is a security strategy that follows three principles, verify explicitly, use least privilege access, and assume breach. This initiative follows Microsoft's Zero Trust adoption framework to help you identify next steps in your Zero Trust strategy. You can learn more about the Zero Trust adoption framework here.