Managing Shadow IT Assets with External Attack Surface Management

This Censys article defines Shadow IT and highlights associated risks—reduced visibility, security vulnerabilities, data loss, non-compliance, and financial impact—then presents External Attack Surface Management (EASM) as a proactive solution to continuously discover, assess, and mitigate unknown external assets. It recommends combining employee education and procurement policies with automated EASM scanning to enforce policy, reduce attack surface, and optimize costs, and functions as a vendor-backed overview promoting Censys's EASM offering.