The problem security teams are living with every day
The number of vulnerabilities is growing fast,1 asset sprawl is accelerating, and frontier AI models have changed the game entirely. Adversaries can now find and exploit vulnerabilities in hours,2 before most teams can react. IT ops and security teams struggle to know which assets are externally exposed. They rarely have the time or resources to do more than react to the latest emerging threat. But threat actors don't discriminate. They can exploit everything, including well-known, long-standing vulnerabilities that teams never got around to fixing, or chain less critical vulnerabilities together in novel ways. Reactive approaches simply aren't enough. Teams need AI-powered insights and automation to comprehensively discover every exposure, prioritize with attacker context, and accelerate remediation before adversaries get there first.
What good looks like: unified visibility, smarter priorities, always-on coverage
The answer isn't another tool. It's a fundamentally different approach. Organizations getting ahead share three things: a unified, up-to-date view of both internal and external risk in one place; prioritization based on attacker context rather than raw severity scores; and top exposures linked directly to AI-powered autonomous remediation actions.
Unified visibility means seeing what attackers see—internet-facing assets, open ports, web properties, certificates, and misconfigurations—correlated with real-time internal endpoint data. Smarter prioritization means going beyond severity scores. AI-powered insights and recommendations help your team understand which exposures sit on potential attack paths to your most critical assets, and which fixes eliminate the most high-risk exposures at once. And always-on coverage means continuous discovery and assessment, because the attack surface changes every day, and a weekly scan is never enough.
Introducing Tanium External Attack Surface Management and Tanium Attack Path Mapping
Today we're announcing two new capabilities in the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform, powered by Tanium Atlas, that help security teams address these pain points.
Tanium External Attack Surface Management gives your team continuous, always-on visibility into your internet-facing assets—the same view attackers already have. Using industry-leading external asset data from Censys, Tanium combines real-time endpoint telemetry with a continuously updated map of global internet infrastructure—giving security teams a comprehensive, contextual view of both internal and external risk in one place.
Tanium Attack Path Mapping models how adversaries could move laterally to chain vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and identity relationships across your environment and reach your most critical assets. By surfacing the highest-impact choke points, teams have confidence they are fixing what matters most.
Together, they close the loop from continuous discovery to smarter prioritization to autonomous remediation—without the manual handoffs and tool sprawl that slow teams down today.
Tanium External Attack Surface Management
Tanium now continuously discovers and assesses your internet-facing assets including hosts, web properties, and certificates. And because Tanium already leads in real-time endpoint telemetry data, Tanium Atlas gives your team the AI-powered visibility to investigate assets in depth, connect misconfigurations to real exploitability, and get a comprehensive view of risk across the entire attack surface in one place.
Tanium Attack Path Mapping
Tanium Attack Path Mapping cuts through the noise to show exactly how adversaries would chain vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and identity relationships across your environment to reach your most critical assets. It helps surface the choke points where a single fix breaks the most paths at once. Built on Tanium Atlas, it has a comprehensive live view across endpoints, Entra ID, AWS, and on-prem Active Directory simultaneously–providing a clear view on "what do we fix first?"
The result: faster response, fewer blind spots, a closed loop
Tanium External Attack Surface Management and Tanium Attack Path Mapping deliver what organizations have been asking for: unified visibility across both internal and external assets, smarter prioritization based on real attacker context, and always-on coverage that keeps pace with a constantly changing attack surface. Powered by Tanium Atlas and AI-driven insights, the platform continuously correlates risk, surfaces the highest-impact recommendations, and acts autonomously—closing the loop from discovery to resolution without the manual handoffs and tool sprawl that slow teams down today.
Both capabilities are generally available within the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform as of June 22, 2026.
To learn more, visit the Tanium Exposure Management page.
1 CVE Metrics, CVE.org, accessed May 12, 2026.
2 Alignment Risk Update, Anthropic, April 7, 2026.