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Attack Surface Management (ASM)

Attack Surface Management is the continuous discovery, classification, and monitoring of an organization's externally exposed digital assets. In third-party cyber risk management, it is applied to vendors, identifying exposures in their external-facing infrastructure without requiring access to their internal systems. Black Kite performs outside-in Attack Surface Management across vendor portfolios on a continuous basis.