Security and Compliance / External Footprint
External
Footprint
You can’t protect what you don’t know exists. Our External Footprint service continuously discovers and monitors your internet-facing assets — domains, IPs, certificates, and cloud services — so you can find and fix exposures before attackers do.
External Assets Monitored
Across your organisation
100%▲
Attack surface coverage
The Benefits of External Footprint
Your external attack surface is constantly changing. Continuous discovery and monitoring help you stay ahead of unmanaged assets and exposed services.
Attack Surface Discovery
We continuously scan and map your internet-facing assets, including domains, subdomains, IP ranges, and cloud services, to build a complete picture of your external footprint.
Exposed Asset Monitoring
We monitor for newly exposed services, open ports, expired certificates, and misconfigurations that could give attackers an easy way in.
"We had no idea how many forgotten subdomains and services were exposed to the internet until Syntacks mapped our entire external footprint."
Client
IT Director
Asset Coverage
Reduced Attack Surface
Identifying and decommissioning unnecessary or forgotten external assets shrinks the number of ways attackers can target your business.
Continuous Risk Scoring
Every discovered asset is assessed and risk-scored, helping you prioritise which exposures to remediate first.
Key Features of Our External Footprint
Our External Footprint service gives you a continuously updated view of everything your organisation exposes to the internet.
Attack Surface Discovery
We map all of your internet-facing assets — domains, subdomains, IP ranges, certificates, and cloud services — to build a complete external inventory.
Exposed Asset Monitoring
We continuously monitor for newly exposed services, misconfigurations, expired certificates, and open ports that increase your risk.
Continuous Risk Scoring
Each asset is risk-scored based on its exposure and known vulnerabilities, helping your team prioritise remediation effectively.
How We Deploy Your Organisation
We start mapping your external footprint immediately, with ongoing monitoring as your environment changes.
Initial Discovery
We perform a comprehensive scan of your domains, IP ranges, and cloud services to build an initial inventory of your external footprint.
Continuous Monitoring
We monitor for changes to your external footprint over time, alerting you to new exposures as soon as they appear.
Remediation Guidance
We provide clear, prioritised recommendations for closing exposures, working with your team to remediate the highest-risk findings first.
Common Questions
External attack surface management (ASM) is the continuous discovery and monitoring of all internet-facing assets your organisation owns, such as domains, IPs, and cloud services, to identify and reduce exposures.
We use a combination of automated scanning, certificate transparency logs, DNS analysis, and cloud reconnaissance to discover assets associated with your organisation, including ones that may have been forgotten or unmanaged.
Monitoring is continuous — we regularly rescan your footprint and alert you as soon as new assets, exposures, or changes are detected.