THE IONIX BLOG

Matt MacKinnon
February 17, 2026

Dangling DNS in the AI Era: The Silent Attack Surface Expanding Beneath Your Feet

Artificial intelligence is accelerating digital transformation at an unprecedented pace. New AI-driven applications, copilots, data pipelines, APIs, and cloud services are spinning up faster than ever before. But while innovation moves at machine speed, governance often lags behind. The result? A rapidly expanding external attack surface filled with forgotten assets, abandoned cloud resources, and misconfigured…
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Marc Gaffan
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Deep Active Browser-Based Crawling: A Must-Have in Determining External Exposure

Marc Gaffan
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Let’s be blunt, External Attack Surface Management (EASM) has run its course. It’s now all about External Exposure Management (EEM).

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