Find What You Own. Before Attackers Do.
Teams launch cloud storage, test sites and SaaS accounts faster than any inventory is updated. Attackers map the same internet-facing footprint and find what you forgot.
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www.acme.com
- 443 HTTPS
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mail.acme.com
- 25 SMTP
- 443 HTTPS
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vpn.acme.com
- 443 HTTPS
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staging.acme.com
- 8080 HTTP
- 22 SSH
Unknown Assets. Become Known Findings.
Asset discovery and shadow IT detection is the work of finding internet-facing assets that are missing from your inventory, such as forgotten subdomains, cloud storage, SaaS accounts, orphaned servers and staging sites. Brandefense Attack Surface Management finds them continuously, links each to an owner, alerts on changes and scores the risk, so unknown exposure becomes a known finding with a name beside it.
- 01 Old Subdomains Stay Live Staging, dev and legacy subdomains are created and never removed. Each one is an entry point with no owner, no patching schedule and no monitoring.
- 02 Teams Start Cloud And SaaS Alone Storage buckets, SaaS tenants and servers appear without IT knowing. They have no provisioning record, no access review and no plan to shut them down.
- 03 Inherited And Test Systems Linger Servers from acquisitions, finished projects and migrations keep running unpatched. Test sites made public often have weak login and real customer data.
- 04 Lists Go Out Of Date A spreadsheet of assets is right on the day it is made and wrong a month later.
From A Public Footprint. To A Ranked List.
Public sources first, live checks second, change alerts from then on.
- Map What Is Public The platform reads certificate logs, DNS records, WHOIS, BGP data and web crawl data first, so it builds your footprint without touching your systems.
- Confirm And Assign Owners Subdomain enumeration, port scans and cloud queries turn that into a live inventory. Each asset is linked to your company, a subsidiary or a business unit.
- Watch For Change And Rank Risk New subdomains, open ports, service versions and certificates trigger alerts. Each asset gets a risk score, so you work from a ranked list.
What Changes Once It Runs.
- A Complete Inventory Domains, subdomains, IP ranges, cloud assets and certificates sit in one list that updates as things change.
- Shadow IT With An Owner Unknown assets are mapped back to a business unit or team, so someone is asked to fix or remove each one.
- A Ranked List To Work From You get a prioritized finding list instead of a raw asset dump, and you fix the riskiest assets first.
Six Kinds Of Assets. Teams Tend To Forget.
Discovery looks for anything on the internet that belongs to your organization, known or not. These are the kinds it turns up most.
- Glossary Domains Root names your company owns, including those that came with an acquisition or an old project. Read More →
- How To Defend Subdomains Staging, dev and legacy subdomains that were created once and never removed. Read More →
- Glossary Cloud Storage Buckets started by one team without IT knowing, with no access review behind them. Read More →
- Glossary SaaS Accounts Tenants set up outside IT, with no provisioning record and no plan to shut them down. Read More →
- Technique Exposed Services Open ports and service versions on servers that face the internet, including inherited and test systems. Read More →
- Glossary Certificates Certificates and CDN settings that can reveal internal names and point to forgotten hosts. Read More →
The Parts Of The Platform. That Do The Work.
Built For The People. Who Own The Inventory.
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Questions People Ask. About Asset Discovery.
Ask The TeamQuestions about your own domain? Get in touch.-
It is the process of finding which domains, subdomains, IP addresses, cloud assets and exposed services belong to your organization, including ones that are missing from your inventory.
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Shadow IT is cloud storage, SaaS tenants and servers set up by teams without IT knowing. They have no provisioning record, no access policy review and no decommissioning plan, so exposure builds up quietly.
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Passive reconnaissance runs first, using certificate transparency logs, DNS records, WHOIS, BGP data and web crawl data from public sources. Active enumeration then extends it into a live inventory.
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Continuously, not on a weekly or monthly scan cycle. Brandefense compares every change to a baseline, so new subdomains, open ports and certificates surface when they appear. CISA BOD 23-01 asks agencies to run automated discovery every 7 days.
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No. Discovery runs from outside your network, with no agents, no integrations and no manual input. The footprint comes from public sources, then active checks link each asset to your organization.
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Old test, staging and legacy subdomains, cloud storage and SaaS accounts started by one team, servers inherited from an acquisition, and certificates or CDN settings that reveal internal names.
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Public sources such as certificate logs and DNS records are read first, then active checks confirm what is live. Each asset is linked to your company or a business unit, compared with the last inventory, and scored so the team gets a ranked list instead of a raw asset dump.
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Staging, dev and legacy subdomains are often created and never removed. Each one is an entry point with no owner, no patching schedule and no monitoring.
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Each asset is linked to your company, a subsidiary or a business unit. This means someone is asked to fix or remove it. Unknown assets get a name beside them.
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A spreadsheet is right on the day it is made and wrong a month later. New subdomains, open ports and certificates appear all the time. Continuous discovery keeps the list up to date as things change.
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