“Shifting Left” has long been thought of as a silver bullet of sorts for security. Conducting security testing earlier in the development cycle to catch vulnerabilities in staging rather than production environments is certainly worthwhile and can significantly lower an organization’s risk profile.

In October, we launched a new feature called Attack Surface Custom Policies for Surface Monitoring customers. Attack Surface Custom Policies makes it possible to set, enforce, and scale customizable security policies so you can focus on the issues that matter most. Since launching this feature, we’ve generated thousands of alerts on potential risks for our customers. For some customers, it was particularly difficult to view these reports.

If you’re responsible for security, then you know how useful it is to have clearly-defined security policies that are simple to implement, scale, and verify. Product and AppSec teams know that great security policies empower teams to work autonomously so that work moves forward as it should. However, validating that your security policies are actually implemented is difficult.

Not everything on your attack surface is a vulnerability. Every organization has their own internal security policies that align with the risk tolerance of their business context. While industries like SaaS are often deploying several daily releases to production from multiple geographies, other industries might not tolerate this level of risk due to internal or external factors like complex regulatory requirements.

Today, we have over 600+ unique techniques to discover subdomain takeovers in over 2,000 Detectify customers. Identifying subdomain takeovers is tricky business as they rely on signature-based tests which are prone to false positives due to outdated signatures. That’s why we run our subdomain takeover tests on hundreds of thousands of customer assets every day.

Detectify ranks as a Leader in Website Security, a category for tools designed to protect business websites from Internet-based threats. This recognition is awarded after factoring in social, web, employee, and review data that G2 has deemed influential in Detectify’s momentum. Besides ranking #1 on the Website Security podium, Detectify holds the first position in Alerting.

STOCKHOLM – September 29, 2022 – Detectify, the External Attack Surface Management platform powered by elite ethical hackers, today announced it has raised $10 million in follow-on funding led by global software investor Insight Partners.

There is always the risk that sensitive data will be exposed during mergers and acquisitions. Throughout the M&A process, you’re adding new ways for hackers to enter your systems, enabling them to access sensitive customer information. This is because the merging of companies usually results in an increase in the attack surface, therefore, increasing the number of unknown security risks the acquiring company is unaware of. The numbers don’t lie.

In 2013, a group of ethical hackers started penetration testing to make the Internet a safer place. After hacking companies such as Google, Facebook among others, they realized they could automate their findings to help companies monitor their attack surface and founded Detectify. Fast forward a few years and Detectify’s Crowdsource network boasts of 400+ elite ethical hackers.

In a previous update, we highlighted the improved navigation to the attack surface. Improving the navigation to the attack surface ensures Surface Monitoring users can easily access critical information about their exposed assets, such as attack surface state, their DNS footprint, and open ports. When a user accesses the attack surface, they have the option to view their root assets (often the apex domains) via the Root Assets tab.