PCI ASV Approved Scanning Vendor External Solution

Partnership with ThreatNG: Your Path to Market Leadership

Are You Still Competing on Price?

Evolve from a commodity service to a strategic partner. ThreatNG gives you the edge to differentiate and dominate the Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) market.

The Problem

Are your clients flying blind?

Your clients rely on your quarterly scans to achieve compliance, but what about the 90-day window in between? Attackers don’t operate on a quarterly schedule.2 This "quarterly blindspot" is a significant liability for your clients and a major weakness in your service model.

Is your team drowning in false positives?

The industry-wide problem of false positives is not just your clients’ headache—it’s your business burden.2 Manual validation, re-scans, and a constant stream of frustrated support calls cost your team valuable time and erode client trust.

Is your business trapped by the “Compliance Paradox”?

You are a victim of a system where significant effort is expended on compliance, yet genuine security gaps persist. This "Compliance Paradox" keeps your business transactional, preventing you from becoming a strategic partner.

The Solution

We've built a new path forward—a partnership model that solves your clients’ problems while transforming your business. The ThreatNG platform enables you to offer a superior service that moves you from a "check-the-box" vendor to a trustworthy partner for your clients.

Eliminate the Quarterly Blindspot

Move from a once-a-quarter service to continuous, year-round security. ThreatNG's Continuous Monitoring capabilities ensure you and your clients are always aware of new vulnerabilities and emerging threats, turning a periodic transaction into a continuous security partnership.

Cut Through the Noise with Verified Findings

ThreatNG’s DarCache Vulnerability repository provides a probabilistic estimate of exploitation (EPSS), a list of vulnerabilities actively being exploited in the wild (KEV), and direct links to verified Proof-of-Concept exploits. This enables you to provide your clients with validated findings, thereby eliminating the burden of false positives and allowing them to focus on the real threats.

Find What Other ASVs Miss

Traditional ASV scans often fail due to an incomplete scope. ThreatNG's comprehensive External Discovery uncovers your clients’ entire digital footprint, including forgotten subdomains, unsanctioned cloud services, and third-party vendor connections. This proactive discovery capability helps you deliver a more accurate and valuable scan, reducing scan failures and proving your superior value from day one.

Clear GDPR Alignment Through Actionable External Assessments

ThreatNG streamlines your external GDPR assessment by providing clear, actionable insights into your security posture from an attacker's perspective. Our easy-to-read reports detail crucial findings, including personal data exposed in public repositories, compromised credentials, default port scans, and mentions on the dark web. Each finding is meticulously mapped to relevant GDPR articles and principles, enabling organizations to understand their compliance status and prioritize remediation efforts to enhance their security defenses and protect personal data.

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Your GDPR Audit Is Done. Your Biggest Threat Is Just Beginning.

Eliminate the "GDPR Audit Blind Spot": Your internal tools can't see exposed cloud buckets with sensitive data, forgotten dev environments with weak credentials, or forgotten subdomains vulnerable to takeover. Our solution operates from an attacker's perspective, using a purely "outside-in" and "unauthenticated" approach to find these exact threats. We empower you to find and fix what others can’t, providing a profound sense of relief from the fear of the unknown.
Move Beyond "Check-the-Box" Compliance: The ultimate goal isn't a clean audit report; it's genuine, demonstrable security that protects your organization from financial and reputational ruin. We don't just find vulnerabilities; we map them directly to the specific GDPR articles they violate, such as Article 5(1)(f) on data integrity and Article 32 on security of processing. This gives you the objective, business-critical data you need to secure buy-in and demonstrate accountability to your board and to regulators.
Become the Proactive Hero: A reactive CISO waits for a breach, an SEC filing, or a lawsuit before taking action. A proactive CISO uses our continuous monitoring capability to get ahead of the threats. We help you detect risks like compromised credentials and ransomware susceptibility before they escalate into a crisis. This capability gives you a constant, real-time pulse on your external risk posture, allowing you to walk into any boardroom with the confidence that you are not just compliant, but truly secure.

Frequently Asked Questions: ThreatNG External GDPR Assessment

In a world where digital threats are constantly evolving, protecting personal data is a top priority—and a legal mandate. You have questions about how to safeguard your organization from an external breach and maintain GDPR compliance. We have answers. Below, we address the most common inquiries to help you understand why an 'outside-in' assessment is a critical component of your security strategy, how it works, and how it empowers you to demonstrate a proactive, modern approach to data protection.

Internal audits and traditional penetration tests provide a snapshot of your security from the inside. They are crucial for assessing your internal network and controlled assets. However, they are fundamentally unable to see your organization as an unauthenticated external attacker does. Our assessment solves the "outside-in" blind spot that exists in every enterprise. We identify risks from the public-facing internet, such as forgotten subdomains, exposed developer resources, or data in open cloud buckets—vulnerabilities that an internal scan would miss but that an attacker would find with ease. A clean internal report doesn't protect you from an external threat.
The ThreatNG External GDPR Assessment provides a continuous, automated evaluation of your public-facing attack surface. It works by performing "purely external unauthenticated discovery" to identify exposed assets and critical vulnerabilities in the same way an attacker would, without needing any internal access or connectors. The solution then maps these findings directly to the specific GDPR articles they violate, such as data integrity (Article 5) or security of processing (Article 32). We provide a clear, auditable trail that connects technical risks to your legal and financial obligations.
Our platform uncovers a wide range of external vulnerabilities that directly relate to GDPR compliance. These include risks from unmanaged assets, such as unmonitored subdomains vulnerable to takeover, misconfigured APIs, or exposed files in open cloud buckets that could leak personal data. It also identifies the presence of compromised credentials on the dark web and pinpoints phishing vulnerabilities related to domain name permutations. Each finding is presented with a clear explanation of how an attacker could exploit it.
The GDPR places a heavy burden on the "controller" to not only implement appropriate security measures but also to be able to demonstrate that they have done so. Our continuous assessment provides the concrete, real-time evidence needed to fulfill this obligation. When the platform discovers and helps you remediate a vulnerability, it creates a documented record of your proactive security posture. This allows you to show auditors and regulators that you are actively managing your external risks, thereby supporting your overall Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) standing.
Unlike traditional solutions that often rely on internal data and are focused on a single point in time, our approach is built on an "unauthenticated, outside-in" methodology. This means we align your security posture with real-world threats by mimicking the exact discovery process of an adversary. We also go beyond just listing vulnerabilities. Our reports include an embedded knowledge base that provides risk levels, reasoning, recommendations, and reference links to help your team prioritize and take action. This "Us vs. Them" approach empowers you to think and act like an attacker to protect your organization.
The assessment provides a prioritized report that categorizes findings by severity: High, Medium, Low, and Informational. This allows you to allocate your resources effectively and focus on the most critical risks that pose the greatest threat to your data and compliance. The knowledge base embedded in the reports provides a deeper understanding of each finding and offers actionable recommendations for remediation.