Continuous Recon & Risk Scoring
External attack surface monitored continuously, not quarterly
What it does
AlertMonitor runs continuous reconnaissance against your external attack surface — the same recon an attacker would perform before targeting you. Open ports, exposed services, misconfigured cloud assets, and new subdomains are discovered the day they appear. Risk scores update in real time. You see your attack surface the way an adversary does, and your analyst team is notified of every significant change.
Your perimeter changes every week: A new dev server spun up with port 22 open, a contractor leaves an admin panel exposed, a cloud bucket permissions change accidentally makes data public. Without continuous recon, you find out when an attacker does — not before.
Capabilities
- Continuous external port scanning — new open services identified within hours of exposure
- Subdomain enumeration and monitoring — new subdomains flagged as they appear in DNS
- Web application fingerprinting: exposed admin panels, default credentials, known-bad headers
- Cloud asset discovery: misconfigured S3 buckets, exposed Azure Blobs, public RDS instances
- Risk scoring per discovered asset — based on exposure type, known CVEs, and service criticality
- Historical change tracking — compare current attack surface to 30/60/90 day baselines
How it works
External recon runs from AlertMonitor's distributed scanning infrastructure, not your own IP ranges. Scans are rate-limited and configured to match common attacker reconnaissance cadence. Discovered assets are cross-referenced against CVE databases, default credential lists, and web application vulnerability signatures. Risk scores use a weighted model factoring exposure severity, exploitability, and business context.