Unified Attack Surface Management
Attack Surface Management is the continuous process of discovering, classifying and monitoring every asset your organisation exposes to the internet — including the ones no inventory has ever recorded.
That is where Attack Surface Management (ASM) comes in — a powerful tool that helps you identify, prioritise, and mitigate your external weaknesses, which can become a point of entry for attackers.
U-ASM continuously discovers and monitors your digital assets for vulnerabilities and weaknesses, which helps you gain the attacker's point of view, resulting in a proactive and effective approach to security.
What U-ASM discovers
Thirteen discovery and correlation capabilities, running continuously rather than on a schedule.
What actually happens to your telemetry
Between a log line being written on one of your machines and someone telling you what to do about it, there are four stages and one store. This is all of them.
Illustrative architecture diagram, not a live system view. Stage names describe the work; the specific components behind each one are scoped per engagement.
Almost none of your exposure window is work
Map the time between an exposure appearing and it being closed, and the fix is rarely what takes the time. Queue time is. Changing the cadence changes the queue.
Structural illustration, not measured client results. The waiting figures follow from the cadence itself — a quarterly cycle means an exposure appearing just after a scan waits most of a quarter to be seen.
Structural illustration, not measured client results. The waiting figures follow from the cadence itself — a quarterly cycle means an exposure appearing just after a scan waits most of a quarter to be seen.
Why continuous monitoring beats a quarterly scan
A scheduled vulnerability scan tells you about the assets you already knew about, on the day it ran. Here is what changes when discovery never stops.
CyberTI’s characterisation of the two approaches, not an independent benchmark. "Traditional vulnerability scanning" means a scheduled, credentialed scan of a manually maintained IP range.
CyberTI’s characterisation of the two approaches, not an independent benchmark. "Traditional vulnerability scanning" means a scheduled, credentialed scan of a manually maintained IP range.
What that gets you
Increased Visibility
See every internet-facing asset you own, including the ones nobody remembered to tell security about.
Vulnerability assessment
Continuously assess discovered assets for exploitable weaknesses rather than waiting for the next scheduled scan.
Early detection
Catch newly exposed services and certificates the moment they appear, before an attacker finds them.
Misconfigured Device detection
Identify devices and services published with weak or default configuration and get them corrected.
Brand Protection
Look-alike and typosquatted domain discovery, and monitoring for misuse of your brand across the domains and certificates attackers register against you.
Reduce Risk
Shrink the attack surface deliberately by retiring exposure you no longer need.
Automation
Discovery, classification and monitoring run continuously without adding analyst headcount.
Scan Cost reduction
Direct paid scanning at the assets that actually matter instead of the whole address space.
Australian compliance obligations U-ASM supports
Three obligations each assume an accurate picture of what you expose.
The SOCI Act requires responsible entities to maintain a written Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program covering cyber, physical, personnel and supply chain hazards, with the Enhanced CIRMP Rules commencing 10 June 2026 and introducing more prescriptive expectations about how risks are identified and assessed. Ransomware payment reporting under the Cyber Security Act 2024 applies to businesses turning over more than $3 million, on a 72-hour clock. And the OAIC's Notifiable Data Breaches scheme requires assessment of a suspected eligible breach within 30 days, treating that as a maximum rather than a target.
Continuous asset discovery is the evidentiary layer underneath all three. You cannot assess an incident's scope in 30 days if you are still working out which systems you own.
What U-ASM does not do
Three bounds, stated before you find them yourself.
Frequently asked questions
Eleven questions, grouped, and sourced where a source exists.
What it is
Attack Surface Management is the continuous process of discovering, classifying and monitoring every asset your organisation exposes to the internet — including the ones no inventory has ever recorded.
It is deliberately an outside-in view: what an attacker can see and reach, rather than what your asset register says you own.
No, and the difference is the direction it looks from.
A vulnerability scan is inside-out. You supply a range of IP addresses you already know about, and the scanner tells you what is wrong with them — point in time, typically monthly or quarterly.
U-ASM is outside-in and continuous. It discovers what you expose without being told where to look, including assets no one documented, and it monitors for change rather than sampling. The gap that matters is the asset your scanner was never pointed at, because nobody knew it existed.
There is a compliance dimension too: ASD's Essential Eight expects vulnerability scanning at least daily on internet-facing services. A quarterly scan of a hand-maintained IP list does not meet that, and cannot, because the list goes stale between cycles.
No. They answer different questions and most organisations need both.
U-ASM tells you what exists and what is exposed, continuously and at breadth. A penetration test tells you what a skilled attacker can actually do with a specific piece of that exposure, in depth, at a point in time.
They are also complementary in practice: U-ASM's discovery routinely finds assets that belong in the next test's scope and would otherwise have been left out. And the annual-plus-significant-change testing cadence that standards such as PCI DSS v4.0.1 require is unaffected by having continuous monitoring in place — continuous discovery is not a substitute for adversarial testing.
What it finds
By working from the same public artefacts an attacker starts with — your domains and subdomains, DNS records, IP allocations, TLS certificates, open ports and the web servers behind them — and following the trail outward rather than reading your asset register inward.
Shadow IT and cloud sprawl are found this way. A marketing team spins up a staging site, a developer exposes an API gateway, an acquired subsidiary brings its own domains. None appears in your CMDB. All appear from outside.
It means monitoring for credentials tied to your domains appearing in breach corpora and criminal marketplaces, and correlating those against the assets you actually expose — so a leaked credential is matched to the specific login surface it opens.
Credential-based intrusion remains one of the two dominant breach patterns, and a person — phished, tricked or simply reusing a password — is involved in the majority of them. Traditional vulnerability scanning covers none of this — it is outside the category's definition.
No — and nor can anyone else. Domain registration is open, and no security vendor can prevent a third party buying a look-alike name.
What U-ASM does is find them fast. Similar-domain discovery monitors for typosquatted and look-alike registrations against your brand, along with the TLS certificates issued for them, which is often the earliest visible signal that someone is preparing a phishing campaign against your customers or staff. From there the response is yours to run — takedown requests, registrar complaints, pre-emptive user warnings.
Detection and speed, not prevention. Any vendor claiming to prevent typosquatting is describing something that does not exist.
No. Findings are ordered by whether they are actually reachable, whether they are actually being exploited, and what the affected asset is worth to you.
CVSS gives severity, and its own specification treats the base score as a ceiling rather than a live risk measure. On top of it we use EPSS, which estimates the probability that a given CVE will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days, and CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, which records confirmed active exploitation. Combined with exposure context from discovery, that produces a remediation order rather than a severity histogram.
Discovery, classification and monitoring run continuously rather than on a scheduled sweep, so a newly published service, a newly issued certificate or a newly opened port surfaces as a change event rather than waiting for the next cycle.
The benchmark to compare against is ASD's Essential Eight expectation of at least daily vulnerability scanning on internet-facing services. A monthly or quarterly scan cannot meet that. Continuous change detection is the only way to close the window between exposure appearing and exposure being known.
How it fits
Emerging technologies keep expanding what an organisation exposes to the internet, and traditional inventory processes cannot keep pace.
IT environments have grown more complex, threats have grown more sophisticated, and remote work has pushed the perimeter well beyond the office.
In Australia the regulatory case is now specific rather than general. Critical infrastructure entities must maintain a written Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program under the SOCI Act, and the Enhanced CIRMP Rules that commenced on 10 June 2026 replaced principles-based expectations with prescriptive ones. Businesses turning over more than $3 million must report ransomware payments within 72 hours. And any organisation holding personal information must assess a suspected eligible data breach within 30 days under the OAIC's Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. Each of those obligations assumes you know what you expose.
Three obligations each assume an accurate picture of what you expose.
The SOCI Act requires responsible entities to maintain a written Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program covering cyber, physical, personnel and supply chain hazards, with the Enhanced CIRMP Rules commencing 10 June 2026 and introducing more prescriptive expectations about how risks are identified and assessed. Ransomware payment reporting under the Cyber Security Act 2024 applies to businesses turning over more than $3 million, on a 72-hour clock. And the OAIC's Notifiable Data Breaches scheme requires assessment of a suspected eligible breach within 30 days, treating that as a maximum rather than a target.
Continuous asset discovery is the evidentiary layer underneath all three. You cannot assess an incident's scope in 30 days if you are still working out which systems you own.
Asset discovery — finding the internet-facing systems nobody has documented.
Vulnerability reduction — cutting exploitable exposure before it is used against you.
Credential monitoring — detecting compromised credentials tied to your domains.
Application security — tracking the web applications and APIs you publish.
Attack surface reduction — deliberately retiring exposure you no longer need.
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