USE CASES

Know the Network
See the Attack Surface

Your attack surface shifts every day with new hosts, forgotten services, fresh CVEs, human error. One hosted platform to continuously discover, assess and monitor your perimeter, so you know your network as it changes.

Network reconnaissance interface
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Scanners & Tools
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TCP Ports Covered
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Output Formats
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Scheduled Scanning
Continuous security checks

Practical use cases for internet-facing systems

HackerTarget scanners and tools help you investigate what can be found, reached, and verified from the internet. These examples show a sample of common checks across port scanning, DNS mapping, vulnerability review, web technology detection, reporting, and monitoring.

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Nmap Port Scanner

Firewall Monitoring

Schedule Nmap to monitor Internet-facing services on a host, network or entire ASN.

DevOps Network Visibility

From troubleshooting network services to checking open ports on rapidly deployed systems.

Detect Human Error

System administration is sometimes like drinking from a fire hose. Mistakes happen, and Nmap can quickly discover services that should not be on the Internet.

Results of an Nmap scan.
Three overlapping images showing an OpenVAS dashboard, scheduled scan and vulnerability report.
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OpenVAS Vulnerability Scanner (GVM)

Comprehensive Vulnerability Discovery

Detect a wide range of network service and web application vulnerabilities across any internet-facing system.

Ongoing Vulnerability Management

Schedule scans for weekly or monthly reports. Configure reports to alert on changes to vulnerability counts.

Real-Time Risk Visibility

Review detailed reports that include vulnerability severity and technical information useful for remediation.

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Zmap Very Fast Port Scanning

Enterprise-Wide Port Scan

Enterprises with large amounts of IP space can run fast scans across hundreds of thousands of IP addresses.

Know Your Exposure

When a new threat emerges, run a scan and gain real-time visibility across your address space in minutes.

Attack Surface Mapping

Build an accurate picture of your attack surface. Discover RDP, SSH, VPN endpoints and other services across your external infrastructure.

Zmap scan form for selecting targets and ports.
Domain Profiler results showing discovered hosts and an attack surface map.
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Domain Profiler – Attack Surface Mapping

Enterprise-Wide Discovery

Identify endpoints across an entire organisation using DNS datasets and internet-wide scan data.

Shadow IT Infrastructure

Teams change, staff leave and systems are forgotten. Find unmanaged or unpatched systems that remain accessible from the internet.

Asset Discovery Against Any Domain

Review the internet-facing infrastructure associated with a domain for reconnaissance, bug bounty research, red-team assessments and penetration testing.

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Tactical Web Analysis

Investigate Web Endpoints

Determine which web technologies are in use on the front end and server side. Gather screenshots for an at-a-glance review.

Bulk Analysis

Paste a list of websites or hostnames and review detected HTTP-based services. Test up to 1,000 sites at a time.

Low-Impact Research

Analysis is performed using a simple HTTP GET request. Use it for bug bounty work, penetration testing and other internet research.

Web technology analysis results showing detected services, technologies and screenshots.
WordPress passive analysis results showing multiple sites and detected security information.
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Focused WordPress Testing

At-a-Glance Security Overview

Identify WordPress core versions, plugins and other details across a list of WordPress-based properties.

WordPress Agencies

Review customer sites, prospective customer sites and internal properties in bulk with no impact.

Hunting for Weak Spots

Penetration testers, bug bounty hunters and security analysts can quickly review large numbers of sites to identify those that may not be well managed.

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IP / DNS Tools & Intelligence

Tools for Security and IT Operations

Trusted by leading enterprises and cybersecurity teams for mission-critical network intelligence needs.

Access through Web or API Endpoints

Work from clear plain text output using the Web Console or automate with API endpoints.

Platform Integrations

A number of leading SOAR and Threat Intelligence Platforms have integrations available.

IP / DNS Intelligence Integrations

These use cases scratch the surface of what is possible.

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HUNT

Hunt vulnerabilities across your Internet facing assets.

PROTECT

Protect your endpoints with improved visibility. Know your network.

DISCOVER

Discover Internet facing assets for any target organization.

RESEARCH

Network research tools for DFIR, Threat Hunting & Operations.

TEST IN BULK

Paste lists of targets into the scanning tools for bulk analysis.

SIMPLY LAUNCH

Simple form to launch tests. Results available in email or dashboard.

ALWAYS ON

Scanning infrastructure ready to go whenever you are. Test anytime.

CUSTOM REPORTS

Reports contain raw tactical output. Paste into custom reports.