Mandiant Attack Surface Management
Attack surface management software
Vulnerability management software
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What is Mandiant Attack Surface Management
Mandiant Attack Surface Management is an external attack surface management (EASM) product that discovers and inventories internet-facing assets and exposures associated with an organization. It is used by security operations, vulnerability management, and risk teams to identify unknown assets, misconfigurations, and externally observable weaknesses across domains, IP space, cloud services, and third-party dependencies. The product emphasizes continuous discovery and prioritization using Mandiant’s threat intelligence and incident response context, and it is commonly deployed alongside existing vulnerability scanners and security tooling.
Continuous external asset discovery
The product focuses on identifying internet-facing assets that are not always covered by internal CMDBs or authenticated scanning. It helps surface unknown domains, hosts, and services that expand the organization’s external footprint over time. This supports ongoing hygiene for mergers, shadow IT, and decentralized cloud adoption.
Threat-informed prioritization context
Mandiant ties findings to security context derived from its threat intelligence and incident response practice. This can help teams prioritize exposures that are more likely to be targeted or abused rather than treating all findings as equal. It is useful for security leaders who need risk-based reporting and triage workflows.
Good fit for SOC workflows
The product is designed to support operational security use cases such as alerting on newly exposed services and tracking remediation over time. It complements vulnerability management by focusing on what is visible from the outside and by highlighting ownership and attribution signals. This can reduce time spent reconciling external findings across multiple tools.
Not a full VM replacement
Attack surface management does not provide the same depth as authenticated vulnerability scanning on endpoints, servers, and internal networks. Many remediation decisions still require validation with internal scanners, configuration management, or cloud security tools. Organizations typically need to integrate it into an existing vulnerability management program rather than replace it.
Coverage depends on attribution
EASM accuracy relies on correctly attributing assets to the organization, which can be difficult with shared hosting, CDNs, subsidiaries, and third parties. Teams may need to tune ownership rules and review findings to reduce false positives or missed assets. This can add operational overhead during initial rollout.
Integration effort for remediation
To operationalize findings, teams often need integrations with ticketing, CMDB, and security platforms to route issues to the right owners. Without mature asset ownership and workflow automation, remediation tracking can be slower and more manual. Value increases when processes for asset governance and patch/configuration management are already in place.
Seller details
Google LLC
Mountain View, CA, USA
1998
Subsidiary
https://cloud.google.com/deep-learning-vm
https://x.com/googlecloud
https://www.linkedin.com/company/google/
