What is Enterprise Attack Surface Management? | UpGuard

This UpGuard blog post explains why enterprise attack surface management (ASM) is critical for large organizations and outlines a strategic ASM approach: comprehensive asset discovery (including Shadow IT and vendor assets), continuous vulnerability scanning, ongoing monitoring and security ratings, integrated vendor risk management (third- and fourth-party detection, assessments, remediation), and risk prioritization. It highlights common enterprise risks—vendor ecosystem exposure, cloud misconfigurations, legacy systems, and human risk—and presents best practices (tiering assets, centralized ASM platforms, employee training) to reduce and manage the attack surface, with repeated references to UpGuard’s platform capabilities.