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“Visual Grouping of Digital Footprint Facilitates Understanding of Organization Resources”
“Effective Alerts and Notifications”
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Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.
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The platform continuously scans the internet to identify domains, subdomains, IP ranges and other public infrastructure that may be associated with the organization. Discovered assets are grouped and linked together, making it easier to understand how different resources relate to the organization's digital footprint.
I really appreciated and liked the alerts/updates it would give me to let me know my services are protected. There are far too many instances where I would get notifications from other places in time or they would build up over time.
We love that our security posture has immediately improved with its built in analytics and reporting along with the extreme threat reduction risk.
Early in deployment, teams may need to review discovered assets and confirm which ones actually belong to the organization. Interpreting exposure risks sometimes requires additional investigation by security teams to determine their true impact.
What I disliked most was that some of the settings were buried deeper in menus than I would have liked. It took much longer to be able to find some of the things I needed compared to other programs.
It can be a bit too restrictive in the beginning following its deployment phase. This may include false positives that block older programs and scripts.
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- Cybersecurity Engineer10B+ USDIT ServicesReview Source
Visual Grouping of Digital Footprint Facilitates Understanding of Organization Resources
Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management has one of the biggest benefits that, it provides visibility into assets that might otherwise go unnoticed. Instead of performing occasional manual checks, the system continuously monitors changes and highlights new or unusual exposures. This makes it easier for security teams to investigate potential risks and verify whether an asset is still needed or properly secured. There is a short adjustment period while validating discovered assets and understanding which ones belong to the organization, but once that process is completed the tool becomes a reliable source of external exposure insight. - BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER50M-1B USDMiscellaneousReview Source
Effective Alerts and Notifications
Overall it was a solid app to help protect your computer and services from unwanted attacks. It fits right in line with other products similar to it - it doesnt stand out as the clear leader nor does it sit at the bottom of the pack. - FALCON ANALYSTGov't/PS/EdEducationReview Source
Immediate Security Gains With Microsoft Defender ASR Offset By Initial Program Blocking
We have had a great experience using Microsoft Defender ASR because of its automated broad-scope blocking techniques that do not require constant config updates. - ENGINEER1B-10B USDEnergy and UtilitiesReview Source
Clear Dashboards Increase Visibility Despite Initial Complexity in Asset Classification
Microsoft Defender external attached surface management has given us much needed visibility into our organization's internet-facing assets. Within the first few weeks we identified multiple forgotten domains and misconfigured endpoints that posed potential risks. The tool's dashboards are clear and the integration with defender for cloud allows us to quickly prioritize remediation efforts. setup required some time and coordination across teams, but the outcome has been a significant reduction in unknown exposures. - Cloud Engineer1B-10B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Effective Identification of Unmanaged Resources Improves Security in Decentralized Systems
As a DevOps Engineering working in a hybrid and increasingly decentralized environment, I had the opportunity to review the product as part of our broader security posture. It's great at continuous discovery and mapping of internet facing assets.



