Reconnaissance Hub

From Chaos to Command: Stop Searching. Start Investigating.

We know the feeling. A critical vulnerability drops, and the frantic, "swivel-chair" analysis begins—a soul-crushing fire drill of manual data correlation across dozens of siloed tools. This is The Investigator's Dilemma: being buried in attack surface data but unable to ask the complex, urgent questions needed to assess your actual exposure. The ThreatNG Reconnaissance Hub is the definitive solution—a unified command interface that transforms your security operations from reactive to proactive. By fusing the portfolio-wide breadth of Overwatch with the granular depth of Advanced Search, the Hub empowers you to conduct active, query-driven investigations across your entire external footprint, turning hours of chaotic searching into seconds of decisive insight.

Reconnaissance Hub: Your Command Center for Active Threat Discovery

Welcome to the ThreatNG Reconnaissance Hub, a suite of capabilities that transforms passive monitoring into active, intelligence-led investigation. This is where you can directly query the full depth of ThreatNG's discovery and assessment data to hunt for threats, validate intelligence, and gain an actual attacker's perspective on your external risk. Move beyond static reports and take command of your security intelligence with solutions built for both panoramic oversight and microscopic detail.

Overwatch

ThreatNG Overwatch provides an all-seeing, portfolio-wide vantage point for instant threat assessment. When a critical vulnerability is announced, Overwatch allows you to execute a single query to find a specific CVE across every client, vendor, and subsidiary you manage. It transforms a chaotic, multi-day fire drill into a decisive, minutes-long action, giving you the immediate situational awareness needed to command your response, prioritize remediation, and proactively communicate with every stakeholder.

Advanced Search

ThreatNG Advanced Search is your solution for a deep-dive, granular investigation into a single entity's attack surface. When you need to move from the "what" to the "where," this is your engine: pinpoint specific vendors, frameworks, and technologies within a single domain or organization to understand the precise composition of its digital footprint. Advanced Search is essential for detailed threat hunting, in-depth due diligence, and forensic analysis of a specific target's external exposure.

Eliminate "Answer Latency" and Respond with Confidence

When a zero-day hits, the most critical question is "What is our exposure?" Answering it can take days of manual effort, which leaves your organization at risk and damages your credibility with leadership. The Reconnaissance Hub eradicates this dangerous delay. Execute a single query to get an immediate, portfolio-wide impact assessment across all your business units, clients, and third-party vendors. Transition from an initial alert to a definitive, prioritized list of affected assets in minutes, thereby transforming the anxiety of the unknown into the absolute confidence of a data-driven response.

Move from Reactive Firefighter to Proactive Threat Hunter

Stop waiting for alerts. The Reconnaissance Hub transforms your vast data lake into an active hunting ground, empowering you to test hypotheses and find threats before they find you. Go beyond simple CVE lookups and construct powerful, multi-faceted queries that mirror real-world attack chains. Instantly search for a specific technology running a vulnerable software version that also has an exposed cloud bucket and sensitive code in a public repository. Powered by ThreatNG's DarCache intelligence, you can finally move from a state of heroic burnout to one of intelligent command. 

Achieve Total Clarity with a Single, Unified View

Your external security data is often fragmented across a constellation of clients, vendors, and subsidiaries, creating dangerous visibility gaps that adversaries exploit. The ThreatNG Reconnaissance Hub shatters these silos by providing a dedicated suite of investigation capabilities that act as your command center for active threat discovery. Its tools give you a compound eye on your external risk, allowing you to move seamlessly from a portfolio-wide view to a granular analysis. With Overwatch, you can instantly scan your entire ecosystem for a specific CVE to understand your total exposure in minutes. Then, with Advanced Search, you can zoom in on a single entity—be it a high-risk vendor, a new acquisition target, or a specific business unit—to investigate the precise technologies and vendors that make up its attack surface. This powerful workflow allows you to finally connect the disparate dots across your entire digital universe, uncovering hidden risks and providing a complete, contextualized picture that no single-purpose tool could ever find.

ThreatNG Overwatch: Frequently Asked Questions

The Fundamentals: What it is and Why You Need It

  • The ThreatNG Reconnaissance Hub is the designation for ThreatNG's family of core investigation capabilities. It brings together the portfolio-wide breadth of our Overwatch capability and the granular depth of Advanced Search, providing a robust suite of solutions for active threat discovery. These capabilities work in concert to transform ThreatNG from a system that simply reports on your attack surface into a system of engagement that allows you to actively query, investigate, and hunt for threats across your entire external footprint in real-time.

  • The Investigator's Dilemma is the critical gap between possessing vast amounts of security data and the inability to ask complex, ad-hoc questions of that data at the speed of an investigation. The result is high "Answer Latency"—the dangerous delay between when a critical question is asked ("Are we exposed to this new zero-day?") and when a confident, data-backed answer is delivered. The Reconnaissance Hub solves this by collapsing Answer Latency from days or hours to mere seconds, allowing you to get immediate, definitive answers and take decisive action.

  • Traditional EASM and vulnerability scanners are excellent at telling you what you have—they provide a static inventory or a list of potential issues for a single entity. The Reconnaissance Hub is fundamentally different because its capabilities are designed for active, targeted investigation at scale. Instead of just reviewing a generic vulnerability report, you can ask specific, high-priority questions. For example, with Overwatch, you can instantly query your entire portfolio and ask, "Which of my clients are exposed to this specific, newly announced CVE?" Then, using Advanced Search, you can pivot to a deep-dive investigation on a high-value client and ask, "Show me every asset within this specific organization where we've detected this vendor's technology." This moves you from passive reporting to active, intelligence-driven investigation.

  • The Reconnaissance Hub is built for the modern security operator on the front lines. This includes:

    • Primary Users: Security Operations Center (SOC) Analysts, Threat Hunters, Incident Responders, and Vulnerability Management Analysts who need to find and remediate threats quickly.

    • Strategic Beneficiaries: CISOs, Heads of Security Operations, and MSSP Service Delivery Managers who are accountable for managing risk, optimizing resources, and demonstrating proactive control over the attack surface to leadership and clients.  

In-Depth Capabilities: How It Works

  • The Reconnaissance Hub's capabilities allow you to perform targeted investigations across different datasets, with each tool designed for a specific scope:

    • Overwatch (Portfolio-Wide Search): This capability is used to search for specific CVEs across all of your monitored domains and organizations simultaneously. The results are enriched with the full context of our DarCache Vulnerability Intelligence, including data from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog and the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS).  

    • Advanced Search (Single-Entity Search): This capability facilitates deep-dive investigations within a single domain or organization. It enables you to identify specific vendors and technologies across an entity's external attack surface, such as all assets running a particular web server or utilizing a specific JavaScript library. 

  • Absolutely. Imagine you read a threat intelligence report about a new attack technique targeting Microsoft Exchange, specifically referencing CVE-2021-26855. With the Reconnaissance Hub, you would immediately test your exposure in a two-step process:

    1. First, you would use Overwatch to get a portfolio-wide view by running a query for CVE-2021-26855 across all of your managed clients. This instantly identifies every client with assets susceptible to this specific vulnerability.

    2. Next, after identifying a high-priority client from the Overwatch results, you would use Advanced Search to drill down within that single organization to find all externally exposed instances of the "Microsoft Exchange" technology.

    This workflow allows you to move from a broad threat assessment across your entire portfolio to a targeted, in-depth investigation of a specific client in minutes. It replaces what would take days of manual "swivel-chair" analysis with a rapid and focused threat hunt.

  • The Reconnaissance Hub's capabilities provide a robust, evidence-based approach to TPRM that moves beyond static questionnaires. When a critical new vulnerability is announced, you can use Overwatch to instantly query your entire third-party vendor ecosystem for that specific CVE. This provides an immediate, portfolio-wide understanding of which vendors are exposed, enabling you to prioritize outreach based on real-world risk. For any high-risk vendor, you can then use Advanced Search to conduct a deep-dive investigation into their specific domain, identifying all discovered technologies and vendors in their stack. This two-step process enables a shift from a reactive, trust-based model to a proactive, evidence-based vendor risk management posture.

  • The Reconnaissance Hub is designed to eliminate the chaotic, all-hands-on-deck fire drill when a major vulnerability is disclosed. Instead of manually checking each client or entity environment, a single analyst can use Overwatch for immediate, portfolio-wide visibility. This capability reduces the Mean Time to Identify (MTTI) for a new threat across your entire operational landscape from hours or even days down to minutes. Automating the initial discovery phase it frees your most valuable analysts from repetitive tasks so they can focus immediately on strategic remediation, client communication, and active response.

The Value Proposition: What’s in it for You

  • It transforms your role from a reactive data janitor into a proactive digital detective. It eliminates the soul-crushing effort of manual data correlation and "swivel-chair" analysis that leads to burnout. By providing a tool that works as fast as your brain, it empowers you to follow your intuition, test hypotheses, and find threats before they escalate. It's about moving from a state of overwhelming chaos to one of absolute control and confidence.  

  • The business case is built on three pillars of value:

    1. Drastic Risk Reduction: It directly reduces your organization's risk exposure by shrinking "Answer Latency." Every hour saved is an hour an attacker can't use against you.

    2. Operational Efficiency: For enterprises, it prevents the massive diversion of resources during a crisis. For MSSPs, it protects profit margins by eliminating the unbillable, "margin killer" fire drills that destroy profitability.  

    3. Strategic Credibility: It equips you to provide the board and executive leadership with swift, confident, and data-backed answers during a crisis, strengthening the security team's strategic value to the business.  

  • No. It was designed to combat tool complexity, not add to it. The interface is intuitive, allowing you to build powerful queries without complex scripting. The goal is to get you from a critical question to a decisive answer as quickly and simply as possible, empowering your team to focus on analysis, not on fighting their tools.