Why External Asset Discovery Matters
Most security teams operate with incomplete visibility. New subdomains get deployed, forgotten assets stay online, and cloud teams spin up resources without notifying security.These unnoticed assets become easy entry points. Snapsec ASM solves this by:
Continuously scanning the internet for your organization’s footprint
Identifying domains, subdomains, IPs, servers, APIs, and cloud services
Building a real-time, unified view of all external-facing assets
Detecting shadow IT, stale systems, and high-risk exposures
How Snapsec Discovers Assets
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Provide Your Starting Point
Add your root domain, company name, or cloud identifiers — Snapsec automatically builds discovery pivots from it.
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Map the Entire Surface
Our discovery engine identifies all exposed domains, subdomains, IPs, APIs, ports, and services across the internet.
3
Enrich and Classify
Every asset is enriched with ownership, environment, DNS records, tech stack, and risk scoring.
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Monitor for New Exposures
Snapsec continuously watches for new assets, changes, or high-risk exposures and alerts you instantly.
What Problems This Solves
Shadow IT Discovery
Uncover forgotten domains, non-production subdomains, abandoned servers, and untracked cloud endpoints.
Attack Surface Coverage
Build a complete, real-time inventory of everything attackers can see from the outside.
Risk Reduction
Identify open ports, exposed services, test environments, and internet-facing assets before attackers reach them.
Key Benefits for Your Security Team
Eliminate Blind Spots
Automatically uncover shadow IT, forgotten domains, and hidden internet-facing assets.
Real-Time Inventory
Maintain an always-updated map of your external footprint with continuous discovery.
Strengthen VM Workflow
Feed discovered assets directly into VM and scanning workflows for faster triage.
Improve Cloud Visibility
Detect exposed cloud endpoints, misconfigurations, and unintended public services.
Example Findings
These are typical high-impact discoveries Snapsec ASM uncovers in organizations:Forgotten staging or development environments exposed to the internet.
Subdomains pointing to unused or publicly accessible cloud storage buckets.
Unauthenticated API endpoints leaking sensitive data or internal functionality.
Exposed admin panels or management interfaces without proper access controls.
Legacy SaaS instances still mapped to company DNS with outdated configurations.
Publicly reachable services or ports left open from old infrastructure deployments.
What Happens After Discovery
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Enrich the Asset
ASM enhances each discovered asset using multiple adapters — IP intelligence, DNS records, technology fingerprints, cloud metadata, Nmap scans, and more.
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Classify with Policy Engine
Using Snapsec’s policy engine, assets are classified across multiple dimensions: environment (prod/dev/stg), type (subdomain, IP, API, bucket), ownership, and risk context.
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Evaluate Exposure
ASM categorizes assets into good exposures (intended and safe) and bad exposures (misconfigured, risky, or unintended).
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Generate AI Report
For every bad exposure, ASM automatically creates an AI-generated report summarizing the issue, impact, and remediation guidance.
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Send to VM Tickets
Exposure reports are pushed directly into Snapsec VM’s ticket management system for seamless triage, tracking, and remediation.
Next Steps
Explore Full ASM Capabilities
Dive deeper into how Snapsec ASM protects your organization’s external perimeter.