E · A · S · E — External Attack Surface Evaluation
See what an attacker sees, before they act on it.
EASE is the reconnaissance and OSINT phase of a real external penetration test, delivered as a focused, standalone engagement. Every finding comes with a plain-language walkthrough of how an attacker would actually use it against you.
What EASE Covers
Everything visible from outside your firewall.
DNS & Subdomains
Full discovery of domains, subdomains, and DNS records, including forgotten or unmanaged assets.
Email Security
DMARC, DKIM, and SPF posture review to identify spoofing and phishing exposure at the domain level.
Leaked Credentials
Monitoring for employee and service credentials exposed in third-party breaches and public dumps.
Shadow IT
Identification of unsanctioned or forgotten infrastructure: dev servers, staging environments, abandoned cloud assets.
Third-Party Exposure
Public repository and storage bucket exposure review (GitHub, S3, and similar), plus vendor and supply-chain footprint.
Employee Intelligence
OSINT-derived employee footprint that maps what an attacker could use for a targeted phishing or social engineering attempt.
Included with every EASE report
Attack Path Narrative
For every significant finding, a walkthrough of how it chains into access: an exposed VPN portal, breached staff passwords, and an outdated appliance version add up to an easy foothold.
Method
Identify. Verify. Reduce.
01
Identify
Map every publicly visible asset before an attacker does.
02
Verify
Confirm real exposure, not just theoretical risk.
03
Reduce
Prioritized, actionable steps to shrink your attack surface.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
If this is completely passive, how do you actually find anything useful?+
The same way an attacker doing reconnaissance would: public DNS records, certificate transparency logs, breach databases, and services like Shodan that already index what's exposed on the internet. None of it requires touching your systems directly, but it surfaces real, actionable exposure.
How is this different from a full external penetration test?+
EASE is the reconnaissance and OSINT phase: mapping what's exposed without touching your systems. A full external pentest starts from that same map, then goes further by actively attempting exploitation to prove what's really exploitable, not just visible. Many clients start with EASE, then move to a full pentest once they know exactly where to focus.
Will this show up in our logs or alert our security team?+
No. Because EASE never touches your infrastructure directly, there's nothing in your logs to trigger. That's the entire premise: zero exploitation, zero payloads, zero disruption.
Do you help us fix what you find, or just hand us a list?+
Every finding comes with prioritized, actionable next steps. We're also available to help coordinate remediation directly if you'd rather not manage it in-house.
Isn't this the same as a free vulnerability scanner?+
Free scanners typically check one thing, like open ports or SSL config. EASE covers your full external footprint (DNS, email authentication, leaked credentials, shadow IT, third-party exposure, employee intelligence) and every finding is manually reviewed before it reaches you, so you're not stuck sorting through false positives yourself.
Ready to see your attack surface?
Schedule your EASE assessment. Confidential. No obligation. 24-hour response.