See what attackers see.
We map your internet-facing attack surface, uncover unknown and forgotten assets, identify external exposures, and manually validate the risks that actually matter.
No agents. No internal access required. An independent outside-in assessment of your organization, performed the way an attacker would actually approach it.
Do you know everything your organization exposes to the internet?
Known assets are only part of your attack surface. Your security team protects what it knows about. Attackers look for what it doesn't.
Modern organizations accumulate domains, subdomains, cloud infrastructure, public IP addresses, web applications, APIs, authentication portals, VPN and remote-access systems, development and staging environments, acquired-company infrastructure, and forgotten systems — often faster than any inventory can track.
Traditional vulnerability scanning usually starts with a known list of assets. Our assessment starts from the opposite direction: what can an attacker discover about you from the outside? Then: which of those discoveries actually matter? And finally: can any of them contribute to a meaningful attack path?
The External Attack Surface Check
Discovery is only the beginning. Automated tools find assets and observations. We add human offensive-security analysis to determine what actually matters — and whether it forms a real attack path.
Define
Scope, boundaries, and written authorization.
Discover
Map the externally observable footprint.
Analyze
Identify meaningful exposure.
Validate
Human offensive-security review.
Connect
Investigate realistic attack paths.
Report
Evidence-based, actionable findings.
Scale and coverage: reconnaissance across domains, certificates, DNS, cloud ranges and technology fingerprints.
Context and judgement: separating noise from real exposure from meaningful security risk — and testing whether it can be chained into an attack path.
Scanners find findings. Attackers find paths.
We don't report scanner output. An experienced offensive-security professional manually reviews and validates the observations that matter, distinguishing noise from real exposure from meaningful security risk — and, where authorized, investigates whether individual exposures combine into a realistic attack path.
What we actually test
Depending on agreed scope. We do not imply every assessment includes every possible test — scope is agreed with you upfront.
- Domains, subdomains & DNS infrastructure
- Cloud-facing assets & hosting infrastructure
- Web applications & APIs
- Authentication & VPN / remote-access portals
- Mail infrastructure & email-security posture
- Development & staging environments
- Legacy & forgotten internet-facing systems
- Public information useful to an attacker
What you'll actually receive
A real External Attack Surface Check produces evidence, not a scanner dump. Here is what that looked like for a fictional demonstration organization, Northstar Industries.
From an unknown asset to business impact
This is an illustrative attack-path model. Not every assessment identifies a viable attack path — see below.
Can the externally exposed remote-access infrastructure provide a viable initial-access path?
Not validated during the assessment- Expected authentication controls present
- No material externally exploitable weakness identified within scope
- No viable attack path demonstrated
An assessment does not need a critical finding to provide value. Knowing which attack scenarios were tested and resisted provides evidence about your external security posture. We do not claim absolute security — only what was tested, and what the evidence shows.
What you receive
Executive Summary
A clear, non-technical overview for leadership and stakeholders.
External Attack Surface Overview
The full discovered footprint, organized and explained.
Unknown / Unexpected Asset Observations
What we found that your inventory didn't account for.
Human-Validated Findings
Evidence, affected assets, risk explanation, and clear reproduction steps.
Attack Paths, If Identified
How exposures could realistically be chained together.
Prioritized Remediation
What to fix first, and why — not a raw findings dump.
Positive Security Observations
What is already working, not only what isn't.
Assessment Limitations
An honest account of what was and wasn't covered.
Debrief / Results Call
A live walkthrough with the person who did the work.
Built for security leaders who need an outside-in view
- Don't fully trust their current asset inventory
- Have rapidly changing cloud infrastructure
- Recently completed an acquisition or merger
- Manage multiple brands or domains
- Want an independent outside-in view
- Need periodic external security validation
- Want to complement existing vulnerability management
- Want more than automated scanner results
How an engagement starts
Request
Tell us about your organization and objectives.
Scope
A short conversation to agree an appropriate scope.
Proposal
A straightforward, itemized proposal — no surprises.
Authorize
Written scope, authorization and Rules of Engagement.
Assess
Discovery, analysis, validation and attack-path work.
Report
A clear, evidence-based report — not a scanner dump.
Review
A live debrief with the person who did the work.