AI deployments bring with them risks companies are ill-prepared for — analysts

External attack surface management tools can, for example, scan public-facing websites, file repositories, and social media feeds to look for a company’s digital assets, which could include spoofed websites, exposed servers, or files containing sensitive information.

Once organizations gain visibility into exposed threats, they can prioritize them and remediate them by orchestrating a fix.

“AI is augmenting all of these steps, typically through ways that vendors assess signals, but also how customers interact with the data,” said Erik Nost, senior analyst at Forrester.

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