Azure External Attack Surface Management

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Azure External Attack Surface Management

Expert knowledge for Azure External Attack Surface Management development including configuration. Use when configuring asset filters, inventory queries, data connections, or policy automation in Defender EASM, and other Azure External Attack Surface Management related development tasks. Not for Azure Defender For Cloud (use azure-defender-for-cloud), Azure Security (use azure-security), Azure Firewall (use azure-firewall), Azure Web Application Firewall (use azure-web-application-firewall).

Source: /skills/azure-external-attack-surface-management/SKILL.md

Azure External Attack Surface Management Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure External Attack Surface Management. Covers configuration. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., [security.md](security.md)), use read_file on the linked reference file

IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

  • Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
  • Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

Category Lines Description
Configuration L29-L42 Configuring Defender EASM asset filters (domains, hosts, IPs, IP blocks, ASNs, pages, SSL certs, contacts), inventory filter parameters, data connections, and policy automation.

Configuration

Topic URL
Filter ASN assets in Defender EASM inventory https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/external-attack-surface-management/asn-asset-filters
Configure contact asset filters in Defender EASM https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/external-attack-surface-management/contact-asset-filters
Configure Defender EASM data connections to Log Analytics and ADX https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/external-attack-surface-management/data-connections
Apply domain-specific filters in Defender EASM https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/external-attack-surface-management/domain-asset-filters
Use host asset filters in Defender EASM https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/external-attack-surface-management/host-asset-filters
Use Defender EASM inventory filter parameters https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/external-attack-surface-management/inventory-filters
Filter IP address assets in Defender EASM https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/external-attack-surface-management/ip-address-asset-filters
Filter IP block assets in Defender EASM https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/external-attack-surface-management/ip-block-asset-filters
Configure page asset filters in Defender EASM https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/external-attack-surface-management/page-asset-filters
Configure Defender EASM policy engine automation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/external-attack-surface-management/policy-engine
Use SSL certificate asset filters in Defender EASM https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/external-attack-surface-management/ssl-certificate-asset-filters