Attack Surface Management
- Monitor your company’s entire external attack surface.
- Detect vulnerable assets and evaluate their risk level.
- Reduce alert overload and focus on verified threats.
What is attack surface management (ASM)?
Attack surface management is the process of discovering and monitoring your company’s internet-exposed assets, then checking for vulnerabilities to see which ones attackers could actually exploit.
ASM solutions continuously scan and analyze new assets to identify gaps before attackers do. This helps organizations eliminate blind spots, such as shadow IT, and strengthen their overall cybersecurity with minimal effort.
CHALLENGES
Why managing your attack surface is so complex
Your external perimeter continues to grow
Your attack surface keeps expanding as new cloud services, network subdomains, and third-party integrations are added.
Threats must be identified as quickly as possible
Critical vulnerabilities may go undetected without continuous monitoring, which gives attackers an opportunity to exploit them.
Security teams face excessive workloads
Resource limitations make it difficult to identify and address all the risks across the external attack surface.
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How attack surface management works
ASM is a continuous process that covers everything from identifying external assets to testing found vulnerabilities. NordLayer Intelligence by NordStellar automates each step to ensure your external perimeter remains visible and under control.
Discover your external assets
NordLayer Intelligence automatically tracks your assets to give you a complete view of your digital footprint. It identifies all internet-exposed assets, including forgotten subdomains and shadow IT, by combining DNS enumeration with advanced crawling.
Simulate attacks to verify threats
It proactively tests your assets to see if potential vulnerabilities are real. Using safe simulations and dynamic analysis, it checks whether risks like SQL injection or exposed admin panels can actually be exploited.
Prioritize risks and remediate quickly
It evaluates risks based on their actual exploitability, not just potential impact. By filtering out false positives and focusing on real threats, it provides clear guidance for fixing critical vulnerabilities.
BENEFITS
How NordLayer Intelligence streamlines attack surface management
Eliminates shadow IT blind spots
It tracks all of your external assets to prevent forgotten subdomains and unknown services from becoming entry points.
Validates real-world exploitability to prioritize risks
By assessing risks, it enables your security teams to focus on real vulnerabilities rather than theoretical risks.
Detects critical misconfigurations
It identifies exposed admin panels, default credentials, and expiring certificates so you can remediate before attackers strike.
Reduces alert noise
It filters out false positives, allowing your team to focus on critical risks instead of minor issues.
Helps resolve issues faster
It accelerates the detection of assets so that you can close security gaps before threat actors exploit them.
Asses discovery
Risks and vulnerabilities that ASM can reveal
NordLayer Intelligence doesn’t just list your external assets – it actively detects and tests vulnerabilities across 6 major risk areas:
Exposed admin panels
Detects publicly accessible login portals, including those with weak or default credentials.
Exposed admin panels
Detects publicly accessible login portals, including those with weak or default credentials.
Gaps in DNS and email security
Detects missing email authentication records (SPF, DMARC), which leave your domain exposed to spoofing and phishing.
GET STARTED
How to use our Attack Surface Management solution
Sign up
Follow a few simple steps to create and set up your account.
Scan your attack surface
Use pre-defined scan templates to map your external assets.
Check found vulnerabilities
See the list of all assets and security issues that NordLayer Intelligence has detected.
Trusted globally by industry leaders
NordLayer Intelligence by NordStellar has received critical acclaim from both the organizations we support and independent cybersecurity experts.
I honestly believe that this tool is essential for every company. The platform's user-friendly interface and proactive threat detection have significantly enhanced our organization's security posture. The team behind NordStellar is amazing as well, and addresses our feedback very promptly and professionally.
Senior Offensive Security Engineer
After putting NordStellar through its paces, I can confidently say it’s up to the challenge. Cyber threats today are relentless, and many solutions simply don’t go far enough. But NordStellar stands out. Its dark web monitoring, instant alerts, and advanced threat detection go beyond the basics, equipping businesses with the tools they genuinely need to stay ahead. In a world where basic security falls short, NordStellar offers a proactive, reliable approach that I’d trust to protect critical data and tackle real-world cyber risks.
Lead Writer
NordStellar provides great insights on threats out there, especially in environments where you have no control. It is also important that the team behind the product listens to the feedback and finds a way to solve the issues. Over a short period, the tool became much more usable, and new sources were added. All you need to do is to provide the company domain, and you are ready to go. I'm really happy about this purchase.
Director of Information Security
The platform's real-time alerts and big data analysis provide invaluable insights into risks, especially from lesser-known sources.
Director of Information Security
The platform offers a user-friendly interface that makes navigation seamless and enjoyable. Additionally, it provides a wide range of features and tools that help enhance your organisations security posture. The integration also seems pretty straightforward.
Senior Risk Manager
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BEYOND ATTACK SURFACE MANAGEMENT
Explore more threat exposure management solutions
NordLayer comes with a range of tools designed to help organizations identify threats early and take action immediately.
Dark web monitoring
Detects leaked data and company mentions across hidden online spaces, such as hacker forums, illicit marketplaces, and private Telegram channels. It helps you identify threats targeting your business in real time and protect exposed consumer and employee information before it can be exploited.
Data breach monitoring
Scans the deep and dark web for leaked sensitive information associated with your business, reviewing infostealer malware logs, leaked databases, and stolen credentials. It provides real-time alerts and full context on past and ongoing attacks to help minimize the risk of ransomware and account takeovers.
Brand protection
Identifies brand misuse and online impersonation across the web, social platforms, and app stores, and enables the quick removal of fraudulent content. It helps protect your company’s reputation and maintain customer trust, offering a detailed view of each potential threat.
Additional info
Frequently asked questions
An attack surface is the sum of all entry points through which an unauthorized user could attempt to access a company’s infrastructure. This includes elements such as open ports, internet-facing web applications, network services, and employee accounts. Reducing the attack surface limits opportunities for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities, gain unauthorized access, or steal data.
Attack surface management is important because it helps organizations identify and monitor all external assets that attackers could try to use to gain access. By knowing their attack surface, companies can prioritize vulnerabilities, close unnecessary entry points, and reduce the risk of breaches.
NordLayer Intelligence maps your company’s external attack surface using DNS enumeration, subdomain brute-forcing, and sophisticated web crawling alongside OSINT analysis, which are the same methods attackers use to detect vulnerabilities. This approach reveals all of your internet-facing assets, from web applications and IP addresses to forgotten cloud services, providing an accurate view of your environment from an attacker’s perspective.
NordLayer Intelligence maps your company’s external attack surface based on scheduled scans or on-demand checks. This updates the list of assets and potential vulnerabilities according to the selected scan frequency.
Ensuring compliance with regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA starts with robust data protection practices. Our ASM solution helps you identify and address security gaps, strengthening your cybersecurity and contributing to compliance with regional privacy requirements and international frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIS2, and DORA.