Managed Security & Visibility

Asset Discovery & Attack Surface

Discover shadow IT. Eliminate blind spots. Build a security strategy.

Why it matters

The business case for asset discovery

You cannot protect what you cannot see. Most organisations are defending a fraction of their real attack surface — the rest is invisible, unmanaged and exploitable.

Cloud, DevOps & M&A introduce unknown assets faster than teams can track
NIS2, DORA & ISO 27001 require an accurate, maintained asset inventory
Vulnerability management and pen testing are only as good as your asset register

67%

of organisations have assets IT is completely unaware of

Axonius / Infosecurity Magazine

30%+

more assets than CMDB records in a typical enterprise

Gartner

40%

of breaches involve an asset the security team did not know existed

CyberArk / IBM Security

What we do

How we help

Identify, classify and continuously monitor every asset in your environment — known and unknown, from internal networks to the external attack surface.

External Attack Surface Management

Continuous discovery of domains, subdomains, DNS, exposed services, misconfigured storage and certificate transparency — find what attackers find first.

Internal & Cloud Asset Discovery

Active and passive scanning of networks, AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, containers, OT devices and service accounts.

Asset Classification & Risk Mapping

Classify by criticality, ownership and data sensitivity; correlate with CVEs to build risk-based remediation views.

Continuous Monitoring & Integration

Change detection, shadow IT alerting and native integration with SIEM, SOAR, CMDB and vulnerability tools.

Our approach

Our methodology · discover, classify, contextualise, monitor

Days 1–5

Discover

Active & passive scanning, cloud APIs, DNS and OSINT.

Network scanning
Cloud API interrogation
DNS & certificate transparency
CMDB gap identification

Days 6–9

Classify

Criticality, ownership, sensitivity and technology tagging.

Criticality & ownership
Business service tagging
Software fingerprinting
Deduplication & enrichment

Days 10–13

Contextualise

Exposure analysis, CVE correlation and attack paths.

Misconfiguration exposure
CVE correlation
Attack path mapping
Shadow IT flagging

Ongoing

Monitor

Continuous change detection and alerting.

New / changed asset alerts
High-risk exposure alerts
SIEM & SOAR integration
CMDB sync

Deliverables: Complete asset register · Exposure report · Risk-prioritised findings · CMDB reconciliation

Engagement options

Choose the depth that fits

Weeks 1–2

Fundamental

Core visibility across infrastructure and cloud.

Physical & virtual servers
Network devices & IP ranges
OT & IoT devices
AWS / Azure / GCP resources
Kubernetes & containers

Weeks 1–3

Enterprise

Adds applications and identities.

Everything in Fundamental
Web applications & APIs
Third-party integrations & SaaS
Users, service accounts & IAM roles
CMDB reconciliation & gap report

Weeks 1–4

Full

Adds the complete external attack surface.

Everything in Enterprise
Domains, subdomains & DNS
Certificate transparency analysis
Shodan / Censys exposure scan
Shadow IT & rogue cloud accounts

Pain points we address

Sound familiar?

Unknown assets are your biggest blind spot

Attackers exploit forgotten services, buckets and devices IT doesn't know exist.

Shadow IT, M&A & DevOps drift

New cloud accounts and developer services appear daily. Controls only cover what's registered.

Cloud & container sprawl

Ephemeral workloads appear and disappear faster than any manual process can track.

Your CMDB is always out of date

CMDB accuracy is often under 70% — and IR and vulnerability management depend on it.

Compliance needs an accurate inventory

NIS2, ISO 27001 and DORA require an up-to-date inventory of assets and data flows.

Why SquareVertex.AI

What you get with us

Attacker's perspective

We prioritise what's exploitable, not just what's registered — finding what your CMDB misses by design.

AI-augmented classification

AI accelerates correlation, deduplication and risk scoring across large discovery exercises.

OT & IoT coverage

Industrial protocols, OT networks and connected devices for CNI, automotive and manufacturing.

Start simple, scale to full

Fundamental, Enterprise and Full tiers match your budget, maturity and timeline.

Native integration

Outputs feed Google SecOps, Sentinel, Wazuh, your CMDB and SOAR playbooks.

Free first step

Start with a free Attack Surface Exposure Scan

We'll run an external exposure scan against your domains, identify internet-facing unknowns, and show you what your attack surface looks like from the outside.

Book a Start Here call

The Asset Discovery & Attack Surface suite

Asset Discovery & Visibility
External Attack Surface Management
Exposure & Risk Assessment
Continuous Attack Surface Monitoring
CMDB Reconciliation & Integration

Partner offer · SquareVertex × Lansweeper

Powered by Lansweeper

We are a Lansweeper partner: we deploy and operate Lansweeper's agentless IT and OT discovery, then add classification, CVE correlation, attack-surface context and NIS2 evidence on top.

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IT · cloud · OT

One unified asset inventory

Servers, network devices, cloud resources, software and patch levels — plus PLCs, HMIs, SCADA and field devices — in a single, continuously updated view.

5 days · free

OT Visibility Scan

We deploy Lansweeper passively at one site and deliver a complete OT asset inventory and exposure report within 5 days.

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