Unveiling Every Blind Spot: Why "No Connectors" Means Unparalleled External Visibility
In today's dynamic cybersecurity landscape, every organization strives for "unmatched visibility into cyber exposure". Yet, many struggle to see their entire external attack surface. The digital perimeter is no longer a fixed line; it's a sprawling, ever-changing landscape of interconnected systems, cloud services, and third-party dependencies that often include assets, services, and vulnerabilities hidden from traditional security tools.
The Problem of Hidden Assets: Your Digital Blind Spots
Organizations frequently grapple with a significant challenge: comprehensively identifying their true external attack surface. This is mainly due to several modern IT realities:
Decentralized Teams & Rapid Development: Development teams spin up resources quickly, and new projects or features are pushed faster than most traditional inventories can track.
Cloud Elasticity: Cloud environments are designed for agility, allowing resources to be provisioned and de-provisioned rapidly. This dynamism can lead to instances being forgotten or misconfigured.
Shadow IT Proliferation: Business units or individual employees often adopt new SaaS applications or cloud infrastructure using corporate credit cards, leaving security and procurement in the dark.
Mergers & Acquisitions: Acquired entities bring their own, often undocumented, legacy systems and digital assets.
Third-Party Interdependencies: Your organization's attack surface extends to your vast network of suppliers and partners, many of whom have unknown exposures.
Many traditional security tools and assessment methods require some form of internal access, agent deployments, or rely on pre-existing asset inventories. This means they can only see what they're told to see, or what's already known. This leaves critical gaps – "unknown unknowns" – that attackers are more than happy to discover and exploit.
ThreatNG's Fundamental Differentiator: Pure External Discovery
At ThreatNG, we believe you can't secure what you can't honestly see. That's why our approach is fundamentally different. ThreatNG "performs purely external unauthenticated discovery using no connectors". This unique methodology allows us to map your attack surface "exactly how a threat actor would" – by analyzing publicly available data, continuously scanning for weaknesses, and uncovering exposures that don't need a password, an agent, or any internal configuration to exploit. This includes comprehensive visibility into your Cloud and SaaS Exposure, which also requires no connectors for ThreatNG to assess.
What This Unparalleled Visibility Uncovers:
Our "no connectors" approach provides a comprehensive, attacker-centric view, revealing crucial external assets and vulnerabilities that often go unnoticed:
Abandoned Assets: We automatically discover and map old subdomains, abandoned IP addresses, or decommissioned cloud instances that were never properly taken offline or removed from DNS. These digital relics can become highly exploitable entry points for subdomain takeovers or serve as hosts for malicious content.
Shadow IT: ThreatNG identifies unsanctioned SaaS applications or cloud workloads that departments outside of official IT channels have spun up. Our Cloud and SaaS Exposure capability assesses these, highlighting misconfigurations, open buckets (e.g., publicly readable AWS S3 buckets), or vulnerabilities in these unauthorized services that could lead to data leaks. This is done with absolutely no connectors.
Mobile App Exposure: We uncover vulnerabilities within mobile applications available in app stores, even those you may have forgotten about or whose development was outsourced. Our Mobile Application Discovery capability meticulously analyzes their content for exposed credentials (like hardcoded API keys) and other sensitive data.
Exposure of Sensitive Code: ThreatNG identifies credentials, API keys, configuration files, and other sensitive information that have been inadvertently committed to public code repositories. Our Sensitive Code Exposure module proactively alerts you to these critical leaks, which attackers often use as direct access points.
Deep Third-Party Insights: Beyond just contractual agreements, ThreatNG maps the actual external footprint of your suppliers, vendors, and partners (including Nth-tier relationships). Our Supply Chain & Third-Party Exposure assessment gives you an objective view of their exposed assets and vulnerabilities, which directly impact your security.
Impact on Security: Addressing the "Unknown Unknowns"
This comprehensive, unbiased external view is critical for organizations to proactively address "unknown unknowns" – the risks you don't even know exist. By seeing your digital environment exactly as adversaries do, you gain the intelligence to:
Secure Assets Before Exploitation: Identify vulnerable entry points before attackers can leverage them for initial access, data breaches, or ransomware attacks.
Prioritize Remediation Effectively: Focus resources on the external exposures that pose the greatest real-world threat, maximizing your security investments.
Enhance Compliance: Identify hidden compliance gaps (e.g., exposed regulated data in misconfigured cloud storage) that traditional internal audits may overlook.
Build True Resilience: Move beyond a reactive posture to continuously adapt and improve your security based on a complete understanding of your dynamic external attack surface.
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