External attack surface management tools can, for example, scan public-facing websites, file repositories, and social media feeds to look for a company’s digital assets, which could include spoofed websites, exposed servers, or files containing sensitive information.
Once organizations gain visibility into exposed threats, they can prioritize them and remediate them by orchestrating a fix.
“AI is augmenting all of these steps, typically through ways that vendors assess signals, but also how customers interact with the data,” said Erik Nost, senior analyst at Forrester.
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
