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Most organizations discover assets after attacker. Shadow IT is one of the biggest contributors to real-world breach events.

Why Shadow IT Detection Matters

Modern engineering teams move fast — spinning up test environments, temporary domains, and cloud resources without notifying security.
Over time, these become invisible attack entry points.
Snapsec ASM eliminates this by:
Continuously scanning for assets created outside IT or security governance
Detecting unknown subdomains, abandoned endpoints, and untracked cloud services
Identifying risky assets with open ports, missing WAF, or public exposure
Correlating shadow assets with real owners using enrichment and attribution

How Snapsec Detects Shadow IT

1

Map All External-Facing Assets

ASM discovers every domain, subdomain, IP, web server, technology, and certificate tied to your organization — even those not recorded internally.
2

Identify Unapproved or Inactive Services

Using activity signals, DNS patterns, hosting intelligence, and certificate data, ASM identifies assets created outside official workflows.
3

Highlight Risky Exposures

Shadow assets often include missing WAF, outdated software, misconfigurations, or publicly exposed services — ASM flags all of these instantly.
4

Attribute Ownership Automatically

ASM correlates assets with teams using DNS roots, cloud metadata, naming conventions, and email patterns.

What Problems This Solves

Unapproved Assets

Detect development or testing subdomains launched without security approval.

Forgotten Infrastructure

Identify stale or abandoned servers and DNS records still reachable from the internet.

Cloud Blind Spots

Reveal cloud buckets, worker endpoints, and API gateways deployed without governance.

Key Benefits for Your Security Team

Catch Risks Early

Prevent shadow assets from becoming breach entry points by discovering them immediately.

Reduce Attack Surface

Remove unused assets, disable exposures, and clean up abandoned infrastructure.

Improve Governance

Ensure all deployed resources follow organizational policies and approval workflows.

Attribute Ownership Automatically

No more guessing who created what — ASM identifies likely owners automatically.

Example Shadow IT Findings

A forgotten subdomain pointing to an outdated web application with open ports.
A cloud worker endpoint exposed publicly with no authentication.
An inactive environment still resolving in DNS, serving 404 pages but reachable to attackers.
An old certificate still mapped to a deprecated domain.
A test API endpoint exposing server response metadata publicly.

What Happens After Detection

1

Validate the Asset

ASM verifies DNS records, hosting signatures, and service activity to confirm the asset is legitimate.
2

Attribute Ownership

Metadata and fingerprinting are used to map the asset to a likely internal team.
3

Classify Risk Level

Exposure type, ports, technologies, and history determine whether it’s low-risk or high-risk.
4

Generate AI Exposure Report

A detailed impact and remediation report is automatically generated.
5

Send to VM for Remediation

The exposure is pushed into Snapsec VM for triage, ticketing, and resolution.

Next Steps

Explore Full ASM Capabilities

See how Snapsec ASM continuously discovers and protects your external attack surface.