Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

We’re excited to share that Detectify is one of the vendors featured in KuppingerCole’s Analysts 2026 Leadership Compass on Attack Surface Management. Attack surfaces grow every time a team ships code, opens a port, or points a DNS record to a new service. Keeping track of what’s exposed is hard enough, and knowing which of those exposures an attacker can actually use is harder still.

On October 20, 2026, the PHP security team issued an advance security advisory regarding two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, affecting core PHP source code. Both vulnerabilities carry a critical-severity CVSS v4.0 score of 9.2 and could potentially allow unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on affected servers. The official patched PHP releases are now available.

If your application security program only tracks known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), you’re probably missing a large share of your real risk. Across the Detectify platform, 75% of the vulnerabilities in our test catalog and 99% of those we discover in customers’ assets are non-CVE vulnerabilities. That makes public disclosures a poor measure of coverage on a modern attack surface. Below, we look at why so many vulnerabilities never get a CVE and how Detectify finds both kinds.

The Detectify Cyber Hygiene Index Report H2 2026 measures something most reports ignore: not what happened after an attack, but what’s exposed right now, before one occurs. We analyzed anonymized data from a sample of +1290 organizations across the US, UK, and Nordics to understand how effectively they’re finding, monitoring, and closing vulnerabilities across their external attack surfaces.

When modern development teams and AI agents ship code at unprecedented speeds, the runtime security checkpoint becomes an indispensable line of defense. However, far too many AppSec teams find themselves drowning in a sea of false positives, overburdened by legacy tools that infer potential vulnerabilities rather than proving their real-world exploitability.

A staging site is meant to last a week, but six months later, it still resolves on a company subdomain, runs an old framework, and has no clear owner. The asset never made it into the central inventory, which means that it also missed the normal cycle of testing, patching, and retirement. That is how many Shadow IT Security problems develop. The original shortcut may have been reasonable, but the risk grows when temporary infrastructure becomes part of the permanent attack surface without anyone noticing.

We’ve been listening to dozens of CISOs. In roundtables, peer forums, customer and prospect calls, on the record, off the record, at event floors and dinners. And the same thing keeps coming up: the security program on paper and the one running in production are rarely the same. There’s a gap between security policy and reality.

Most tools will only test the domains you already know about. We’ve decided that’s not enough. TLDR: Detectify’s new Apex Discovery automatically identifies root domains likely to belong to your organization (from M&A, subsidiaries, and shadow IT) for complete security coverage. Review and confirm our curated suggestions in a click, and instantly start protecting them with the same continuous discovery and vulnerability assessment as the rest of your attack surface.

For years, development and security practitioners have treated dynamic application security testing as a critical final safety check before code goes live. However, the external attack surface is expanding faster than mid-sized security teams can realistically manage. In this high-velocity environment, legacy DAST tools are increasingly failing to keep pace.

Scaling application security and attack surface monitoring inside a single enterprise is a massive headache. In June 2026, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) of the UK Government joined us on stage at Infosecurity Europe to share the reality of a challenge that puts even the largest corporate hurdles into perspective.