EXTERNAL ATTACK SURFACE MANAGEMENT (EASM)

Know everything you expose before attackers find it first.

Patrowl continuously discovers, validates, and prioritizes your external attack surface, providing a complete, real-time view of every internet-facing asset, including Shadow IT.

  • Continuous discovery — 1.5M+ assets monitored continuously across our customers, mapped in real time.

  • Fast onboarding — Set up in 30 minutes, with your first complete attack surface map delivered in 24h.

  • Zero false positives — Every finding is validated by security experts before it reaches you.

  • Risk-based prioritization — Vulnerabilities ranked by real exploitability and business impact, not just a raw CVSS score.

Patrowl Platform

WHY EASM MATTERS IN 2026

Your attack surface grows faster than you track it.

New deployments, cloud environments, and services expand your digital footprint every day — and most teams don't have full visibility into what's exposed.

Shadow IT you don't know exists

Unknown assets build up fast: a forgotten subdomain, an exposed dev environment, an open cloud service. Attackers find them before your team does.

"We had no idea that subdomain was still live. It was serving our old login page."

CVEs without context are just noise

A CVE alone doesn't mean risk. Without context, you don't know if you're exposed or exploitable — and teams waste time on the wrong issues.

"We had 800 CVEs in the backlog. We had no idea which three could breach us."

Compliance requires continuous evidence

Auditors no longer accept snapshots. You need continuous proof of control over your exposed assets — manual reporting isn't enough.

"The auditor asked for 6 months of evidence. We had a single PDF from last year."

How Patrowl EASM works

Patrowl goes beyond asset lists. We discover, validate, and prioritize what matters.

  • 1. Attack surface visibility

    Discover your real attack surface

    • Domains, subdomains, IP addresses, APIs, cloud services

    • Shadow IT and forgotten environments

    • Discovery powered by WHOIS, certificate transparency, DNS data, and internet-wide scanning

    Outcome: a complete, continuously updated external footprint

  • 2. Understand what each asset reveals

    Not all assets are equal


    EASM analyzes what each asset is, how it is used, and what it exposes.

    • Technology fingerprinting (web applications, services, APIs)

    • Ownership and business context

    • Threat intelligence enrichment (CISA KEV, EPSS, active exploits)

    Outcome: visibility into what matters and why

  • 3-Detect real exposure points

    Identify the weaknesses attackers can actually reach.

    • Misconfigured cloud services and storage

    • Exposed services, admin panels, login endpoints

    • Weak DNS, email, and SSL/TLS configurations

    Outcome: a clear view of exploitable entry points

  • 4.Detect Typosquatting Risks

    Identify brand impersonation attempts before they become a real threat.


    Patrowl automatically detects domain permutations that could be used to impersonate your brand, target your users, or host fraudulent content.
    Centralize every detection in a single view, assess threat levels, and track each case through resolution.

    • Automatically detect domains similar to your brand

    • Qualify threats based on real risk levels

    • Track suspicious permutations and related vulnerabilities

    • Organize cases with clear statuses: detected, tracked, ignored, or resolved

    • Verify takedowns and confirm fraudulent websites are no longer active

  • 5. Focus on exploitable risk

    Not every vulnerability matters.

    Zero false positives guaranteed. Every critical finding reviewed by Patrowl pentesters before it reaches you.

    • Link assets to known vulnerabilities

    • Filter noise using threat intelligence

    • Prioritize based on exploitability and business impact

    Outcome: a prioritized list of risks that matter

  • 6. Monitor continuously

    Your attack surface changes every day.

    EASM keeps tracking it.

    • Detect new assets and changes in real time

    • Track remediation and verify fixes

    • Maintain continuous monitoring across all external assets

    Outcome: persistent control over your exposure

  • 7. Operate at scale

    Built for complex organizations

    • Manage multiple entities, subsidiaries, and business units from one platform

    • Centralize visibility across all external assets

    • Integrate with Jira and ServiceNow (ITSM), SIEM, and Slack

    • Align detection, prioritization, and remediation workflows

      Outcome: operational security workflows, not just visibility

Vulnerability scanner vs Patrowl EASM

Not a scanner. An intelligence engine.

Criteria
Vulnerability Scanner
Patrowl EASM
Asset discovery
Declared scope only
Automatic, including Shadow IT
Coverage
Known CVEs only
CVE, OWASP, misconfigs, data leaks
Threat intelligence
None
CISA KEV, EPSS, active exploits
False positives
High volume
Zero, internal pentesters qualification
Remediation guidance
Generic
Contextualized, with IoCs and fix steps
Compliance evidence
Manual export
Continuous, audit-ready
Time to first result
Hours (unqualified)
24 hours, validated
AI & data privacy
Not applicable
Runs on our infrastructure, never shared with third parties

Every role gets exactly what they need.

CISO

"I need to prove we manage risk. Not just report on it."

  • Your attack surface is always up to date.

  • Board-ready reports with full fix audit trail.

  • Compliance evidence for NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001.

SECOPS / VOC

"I'm drowning in alerts. I need to know what to fix first."

  • Zero false positives. We confirm every alert.

  • Alerts ranked by real exploitability and business impact.

  • Fix tickets auto-created in Jira or ServiceNow.

  • Auto-retest after each fix. No follow-up needed.

CTO / DSI

"I no longer know what's truly exposed."

  • Full visibility including Shadow IT and third parties.

  • Up and running in 30 minutes. No agent. No setup changes.

  • Clear security metrics to guide fast decisions.

  • New entities and acquisitions onboarded quickly.

GARTNER® MARKET GUIDE 2026

Mentioned in the Gartner® 2026 Market Guide for Preemptive Exposure Management

Patrowl is listed as a Representative Vendor in Gartner's 2026 Market Guide for Preemptive Exposure Management.

Testimonials

They took back control of their attack surface.

A solution developed by certified pentesters and recognized by cybersecurity experts.

  • “Our Blue Team was immediately alerted. Notification received at 3:57 PM, alert triggered at 4:36 PM. Thank you for the quality of your active monitoring.”

    Brest Métropole
  • “Instead of dedicating our team's precious time to ad hoc tests, we now continuously receive verified, high-quality results that our engineers can act on immediately.”

    Xplor
  • “Patrowl delivers highly relevant results. The automated monitoring is genuinely appreciated by our teams.”

    Colas
  • “Enhanced security, integrated without friction into our existing workflows. Deployed in 2 days across all our public assets.”

    Heetch
  • “Continuous pentesting is an innovative solution perfectly aligned with the extreme scalability of today's enterprise IT.”

    MGEN
  • “ The use of the Patrowl platform has greatly contributed to improving the monitoring of our assets exposed on the internet. ”

    Arkhineo
  • “We are guided step by step through the process, with a detailed explanation of the alert that was triggered, so that we can understand what is happening and identify which application failed to follow all best practices for a service accessible on the Internet”

    CH Avignon

Common questions about EASM.

What is External Attack Surface Management (EASM)?

External attack surface management EASM is the process of discovering and monitoring all internet-facing assets your organization exposes. This includes known assets, unknown assets, Shadow IT, cloud services, APIs, and third-party dependencies.

Patrowl automates this asset management process. You declare a domain or company name. Our platform maps your full external footprint, enriches every potential vulnerability with threat intelligence, and surfaces only what actually matters.

What is the difference between EASM and vulnerability scanner?

A scanner tests a perimeter you already declared. EASM discovers your perimeter first, including unknown assets you didn't know existed.

Patrowl maps Shadow IT, expired certificates, forgotten subdomains, and misconfigured services across all your cloud environments automatically. Discovered assets are validated by in-house pentesters before alerting your team. The result: zero false positives, not a raw CVE list.

How is EASM related to penetration testing?

What assets does Patrowl EASM discover ?

Patrowl discovers all external assets and internet exposed assets.

  • Network layer: domains, subdomains, IPs, subnets, and open ports.

  • Application layer: APIs, web services, and cloud accounts across all cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).

  • Security layer: SSL/TLS certificates, DNS records, email security (SPF, DKIM, DMARC).

  • Shadow IT and brand terms: forgotten assets, public repositories, typosquatting.

  • You can also declare custom keywords. Patrowl monitors typosquatting, brand impersonation, data leaks, misconfigurations, and third party risk based on those terms.

Ho do we get started?

You're up and running in 30 minutes.

No agent to install. No changes to your setup. Declare your domains, IPs, or company name. Patrowl does the rest.

First attack surface map ready within 24 hours. Our team is with you at every step.

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15 minutes to discover what you're really exposing on the Internet.

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