Attack Surface Management

Continuously discover, monitor, and secure your entire external attack surface. Gain complete visibility into domains, cloud infrastructure, shadow IT, and third-party integrations before attackers exploit them.

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94%
of breaches involve external assets
40%
of assets unknown to security teams
15min
average setup to full visibility

The Attack Surface Challenge

Your organization's digital footprint expands daily. Without continuous monitoring, unknown and forgotten assets become security blind spots that attackers exploit.

Shadow IT Proliferation

Developers spin up cloud instances, marketing teams launch campaigns on third-party platforms, and acquisitions bring inherited infrastructure—all without central visibility or security oversight.

Unknown External Assets

Forgotten staging environments, decommissioned services with active DNS records, legacy systems, and contractor-managed infrastructure create entry points you don't know exist.

Third-Party Integration Risk

SaaS applications, vendor connections, CDN configurations, and API integrations extend your attack surface beyond your direct control, creating supply chain vulnerabilities.

Manual Discovery Gaps

Traditional asset inventories are outdated within hours. Manual spreadsheets can't keep pace with cloud-native development, resulting in critical visibility gaps during security assessments.

How Attack Surface Management Works

Automated discovery and continuous monitoring of your entire external-facing infrastructure

1

Asset Discovery

Automated scanning across domains, IP ranges, cloud providers, and third-party services to build complete inventory

2

Risk Assessment

Analyze each asset for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, exposed services, and security posture weaknesses

3

Prioritization

Context-aware risk scoring based on asset criticality, exploitability, and business impact to focus remediation

4

Continuous Monitoring

Real-time alerting on new assets, configuration changes, emerging vulnerabilities, and threat indicators

Comprehensive Attack Surface Coverage

Unified visibility across your entire external infrastructure

01

Domain & DNS Infrastructure

  • Root domain and subdomain discovery across all TLDs
  • DNS record monitoring (A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, NS)
  • Subdomain takeover vulnerability detection
  • DNS hijacking and unauthorized change alerts
  • SSL/TLS certificate inventory and expiration tracking
  • DNS provider integration (Cloudflare, Route 53, Azure DNS)
02

Cloud Infrastructure

  • AWS, Azure, and GCP asset discovery via API integration
  • Public-facing instances, load balancers, and storage buckets
  • Misconfigured cloud resources and security groups
  • Container registries and Kubernetes exposed services
  • Serverless functions and API gateways
  • Cloud provider security posture assessment
03

IP Address Ranges & Networks

  • ASN enumeration and BGP route monitoring
  • IP address attribution and geolocation mapping
  • Open port scanning and service identification
  • Network perimeter change detection
  • Unexpected IP space discovery and shadow networks
  • Historical IP ownership and allocation tracking
04

Web Applications & APIs

  • Web application discovery and technology fingerprinting
  • API endpoint enumeration and documentation discovery
  • Exposed admin panels, login pages, and development tools
  • JavaScript analysis for hardcoded credentials and endpoints
  • Content Security Policy and security header analysis
  • Web framework vulnerabilities and version tracking
05

Shadow IT & Unauthorized Assets

  • Employee-created cloud accounts and development environments
  • Unapproved SaaS application usage detection
  • Rogue subdomains and unauthorized DNS changes
  • Personal cloud storage with company data exposure
  • Test and staging environments in production networks
  • Contractor and consultant infrastructure remnants
06

Third-Party & Supply Chain

  • Vendor and partner connection point identification
  • Third-party JavaScript and tracking pixel inventory
  • CDN configuration and edge location monitoring
  • Marketing platform and analytics tool tracking
  • Acquired company infrastructure integration assessment
  • Shared hosting and multi-tenant environment detection

Core Platform Capabilities

Enterprise-grade features for comprehensive attack surface management

Automated Asset Discovery

Passive and active reconnaissance techniques discover assets across your entire digital footprint. Certificate transparency monitoring, DNS enumeration, port scanning, and cloud API integration ensure comprehensive coverage without manual intervention.

Vulnerability Intelligence

Real-time correlation with CVE databases, exploit frameworks, and threat intelligence feeds. Automatically identify vulnerable software versions, misconfigurations, and exploitable conditions across your infrastructure.

Risk Prioritization Engine

Context-aware scoring considers asset criticality, exposure level, exploitability, and business impact. Focus remediation efforts on risks that matter most to your organization rather than arbitrary vulnerability counts.

Continuous Change Monitoring

Real-time detection of new assets, DNS modifications, certificate changes, and configuration drift. Scheduled scans run automatically with configurable frequency from hourly to weekly based on your requirements.

Asset Attribution & Ownership

Automatically classify assets by business unit, team ownership, environment type, and criticality. Integration with CMDB and asset management systems maintains accurate attribution as your organization evolves.

Compliance Reporting

Pre-built reports for SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and GDPR requirements. Export asset inventories, vulnerability assessments, and remediation timelines for auditors with complete historical tracking.

Attack Surface Reduction Workflow

Systematic approach to identifying, assessing, and securing external assets

Phase 1: Complete Discovery

Begin with comprehensive asset enumeration across all attack vectors. The platform aggregates data from passive reconnaissance, active scanning, cloud provider APIs, and DNS zone files to build a complete inventory. This baseline includes known and unknown assets, providing immediate visibility into shadow IT and forgotten infrastructure.

Phase 2: Risk Assessment

Each discovered asset undergoes security analysis including vulnerability scanning, configuration assessment, exposure evaluation, and technology stack fingerprinting. Risk scores incorporate both technical severity and business context—a vulnerable customer-facing API receives higher priority than an internal development tool.

Phase 3: Ownership Assignment

Assets are automatically mapped to responsible teams based on DNS patterns, cloud account tags, and organizational structure. Unknown asset owners are flagged for investigation. This ensures accountability and enables distributed remediation rather than security team bottlenecks.

Phase 4: Continuous Reduction

Ongoing monitoring detects new assets, configuration changes, and emerging vulnerabilities. Automated workflows create tickets in JIRA or ServiceNow for remediation. Track progress through dashboards showing attack surface metrics over time—measuring reduction in exposed assets, unpatched vulnerabilities, and mean time to remediation.

Industry Use Cases

Attack surface management delivers value across organizational contexts

Enterprise Security Teams

Maintain asset inventory across business units, geographies, and cloud accounts. Demonstrate security posture to executives with metrics on attack surface size, risk trends, and remediation velocity.

Cloud-Native Organizations

Track ephemeral infrastructure in AWS, Azure, and GCP. Detect misconfigured cloud resources before they're exploited. Ensure development teams follow security standards without slowing deployment velocity.

Penetration Testing Teams

Perform reconnaissance using the same tools attackers use. Validate findings from external assessments. Maintain continuous visibility between periodic penetration tests to catch new vulnerabilities.

Compliance & Audit

Generate comprehensive asset inventories for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS audits. Demonstrate continuous monitoring controls. Export historical data showing asset management and vulnerability remediation processes.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Rapidly assess acquired company infrastructure during due diligence. Identify security risks before integration. Map assets to facilitate network consolidation and decommissioning decisions.

Bug Bounty Programs

Define and communicate program scope to security researchers. Ensure bounty platforms have current asset lists. Discover assets before researchers do to control disclosure timelines.

Attack Surface Management vs Traditional Approaches

Capability Manual Inventory Vulnerability Scanners bspeka ASM Platform
Asset discovery Manual documentation Requires known targets Fully automated
Shadow IT detection Not possible Not included Continuous discovery
Cloud infrastructure Manual tracking Partial coverage Native integration
External attacker perspective Internal view only Authenticated scanning Outside-in approach
Risk prioritization Manual assessment CVSS scores only Context-aware scoring
Continuous monitoring Quarterly updates Scheduled scans only Real-time alerts
Third-party assets Not tracked Out of scope Full visibility
Historical tracking Spreadsheet versioning Limited retention Complete audit trail
Setup complexity Weeks of manual work Days of configuration 15 minutes to production

Integration Ecosystem

Connect attack surface management with your existing security infrastructure

Cloud Providers

Native API integration with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Automatically discover EC2 instances, storage buckets, load balancers, databases, and serverless functions. Read-only access ensures no modifications to your infrastructure.

AWS • Azure • GCP • DigitalOcean • Linode

Ticketing Systems

Automatically create tickets for new high-risk findings in JIRA, ServiceNow, or Linear. Bidirectional sync tracks remediation progress. Custom workflows route issues to appropriate teams based on asset ownership.

JIRA • ServiceNow • Linear • Asana • Monday.com

Communication Platforms

Real-time notifications to Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email when critical findings emerge. Customizable alert thresholds prevent notification fatigue. Digest summaries for regular attack surface reports.

Slack • Microsoft Teams • Email • PagerDuty • Webhooks

Security Tools

Export findings to SIEM platforms for correlation with security events. Share asset lists with vulnerability scanners for targeted assessments. Integrate with threat intelligence platforms for enrichment.

Splunk • Elastic • Tenable • Qualys • Rapid7

DNS Providers

Direct integration with Cloudflare, AWS Route 53, Google Cloud DNS, and Azure DNS. Pull complete zone files for guaranteed subdomain coverage. Automatic synchronization when DNS records change.

Cloudflare • Route 53 • Azure DNS • Google Cloud DNS

Asset Management

Synchronize with Configuration Management Databases (CMDB) and IT asset management systems. Enrich discovered assets with business context like ownership, criticality, and compliance requirements.

ServiceNow CMDB • Device42 • BMC • CSV Import/Export

Attack Surface Management Best Practices

Start with Complete Baseline

Begin with comprehensive discovery across all known domains, IP ranges, and cloud accounts. The initial scan establishes your baseline attack surface. Review unknown assets with infrastructure teams to classify as legitimate, shadow IT, or candidates for decommissioning.

Establish Ownership Model

Define clear ownership for every asset or asset category. Use tagging conventions in cloud environments to enable automatic attribution. When ownership is unclear, escalate to management rather than leaving orphaned assets unmonitored.

Implement Continuous Scanning

Configure scan frequency based on your change velocity. High-frequency development environments benefit from hourly scans, while stable infrastructure can use daily monitoring. Balance thoroughness with resource consumption and rate limiting considerations.

Prioritize by Business Context

Not all vulnerabilities require immediate attention. Focus on customer-facing systems, authentication endpoints, and data handling infrastructure first. Low-priority findings on internal development tools can be addressed in regular maintenance cycles.

Measure Attack Surface Reduction

Track metrics over time: total external assets, high-risk vulnerabilities, mean time to remediation, and percentage of assets with known ownership. Use these KPIs to demonstrate security program effectiveness to leadership and drive continuous improvement.

Integrate with Development Workflow

Make attack surface management part of deployment pipelines. Automatically scan new infrastructure as it's provisioned. Provide developers with self-service access to findings for their assets. Shift security left by catching issues before production deployment.

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