Cyber Insights 2026: External Attack Surface Management
Security Week, Tuesday, January 13th, 2026
Shadows are dark and dangerous places where bad guys attack anything or anyone they find. In 2026, AI will increase the number and size of shadows, together with the entire external attack surface.
External Attack Surface Management (EASM) is the process of finding and managing every asset an organization exposes to the internet. Those assets may be known (and therefore documented and may be secured) or unknown (and therefore invisible and almost certainly insecure). While EASM covers both categories, we are primarily concerned with the invisible assets.