Understanding the ASM Alphabet Soup

This Censys Attack Surface Management glossary provides concise definitions and explanations of ASM/EASM concepts—including asset discovery, external attack surface, exposures, shadow cloud/IT, cloud connectors, automatic protocol detection, rescan on-demand, risk, and command-and-control—aimed at helping security teams standardize terminology and understand external exposure monitoring and inventory practices; it is an informational resource rather than an incident analysis.