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ATTACK SURFACE MONITORING

Uncover Your Full External Attack Surface

Gain a comprehensive view of your organization's external assets and monitor daily changes to identify potential vulnerabilities.

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BENEFITS

Ensure Complete External Awareness

Attack Surface Monitoring is foundational to proactive security. Cobalt provides the comprehensive visibility you need to automatically identify, monitor, and manage assets and potential vulnerabilities, helping you gain full control over your dynamic web perimeter.

Identify Shadow IT
Automatically map and catalog all your internet-facing assets—including those you weren't previously aware of—to gain complete external visibility and minimize shadow IT.
Monitor Dynamic Changes in Real-Time
Gain immediate insight into daily changes to your attack surface, such as new hosts and port modifications, allowing you to quickly secure new exposures as they appear.
Comprehensive Attack Surface Intelligence
Leverage a comprehensive inventory— including context on when assets were last pentested—helping you prioritize the most critical, unmonitored, or untested areas of your environment.
OUR APPROACH

Always-on Discovery and Prioritization

Our automated, expert-driven approach ensures a continuous inventory of all external assets and their risk posture.

  • Automatically identify, catalog, and maintain all eternally reachable targets under your verified domains.
  • Run daily scans on all domains to track changes, ensuring new hosts, port modifications, and other exposures are caught right away.
  • Map discovered assets to your security program by viewing the date they were first seen and their last pentest coverage status.
  • Evaluate discovered targets for critical exposures, including weak cipher suites, credentials disclosure, and missing security headers.
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HOW WE ARE BETTER

See Your Attack Surface in Real Time

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Our Attack Surface Monitoring transforms a static asset inventory into a dynamic, integrated security intelligence stream that supports proactive risk management—all included in your relationship with Cobalt.

  • Connect every discovered asset to your security lifecycle by displaying the date it was last pentested, allowing you to prioritize testing based on real-world exposure and pentest coverage.
  • Leverage daily domain scans to track new hosts, port changes, and certificate updates, ensuring you are instantly aware of emerging risk.
  • Categorize targets by status and surface findings in the Cobalt platform to enable faster remediation.
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Henning Christiansen,
Chief Information Security Officer at Axel Springer
“Part of protecting information, part of protecting data is to show that you're regularly checking whether there are any security issues. And this model that we have set up with Cobalt, the continuous security monitoring, helps a lot.”
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Chris Wallace,
Security Liaison Engineer at Vonage
“One of the main benefits is the variety of skill sets that you’re able to tap into because Cobalt has a community of pentesters that you can really draw from. We don’t have to hire more red team people, we can bring them on as needed.”
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Adam Surak,
Head of Security at Algolia
“Now, engineers almost looking forward to testing. They know that the interactions with the pentesters make them better engineers. The pentesters clearly explain security issues and proposed mitigations. Then our engineers can review the findings, ask questions and bring their own expertise to the mitigation process. Together, we come up with solutions that benefit our customers. It is no longer a burden for engineers to be included in the pentesting process. In fact, Cobalt works exactly how you want a penetration test to work.”
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RESOURCES

The latest thinking in offensive security

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RESOURCES
State of LLM Security Report, 2025

The State of LLM Security Report exposes a troubling reality: while threats related to genAI are a top concern, the current state of LLM and AI-powered application security testing and remediation is insufficient to address the novel risks these powerful new technologies introduce.

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A Penetration Tester's Guide To Web Applications
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Resources
GigaOm's Pentesting as a Service Report
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Fast-track your security testing

Start testing in 24 hours. Connect directly with our security experts. And centralize your testing using the Cobalt platform. Trust the pioneers of PtaaS to optimize your cybersecurity across your entire attack surface.

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