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.

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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, with Nmap quickly discover services that should not be on the Internet.

Results of an Nmap scan.
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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 report to alert on changes to vulnerability count.

Real Time Risk Visibility

Detailed reports that include vulnerability severity with technical details of immediate value to the user.

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Zmap Very Fast Port Scanning

Enterprise Wide Port Scan

Enterprises with large amounts of IP space will benefit from fast scans of hundreds of thousands of IP addresses.

Know Your Exposure

When a new threat hits the cyber news feed; fire off a scan and get real time visibility across your entire address space in minutes.

Attack Surface Mapping

Get an accurate picture of your attack surface in a few minutes. Discover RDP, SSH, VPN Endpoints and more across your external infrastructure.

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Domain Profiler - Attack Surface Mapping

Enterprise Wide Discovery

Identify endpoints across an entire organization using DNS data sets and Internet wide scan data.

Shadow IT Infrastructure

Teams change, staff leave and systems are forgotten. Find unmanaged, unpatched systems that are still accessible from the Internet.

Asset Discovery Against Any Domain

Get an overview of any targets Internet Infrastructure. Research competitors. Win Bug Bounties. Red Teams and Penetration Tests. Game On.

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Tactical Web Analysis

Investigate Web Endpoints

Determine web technologies in use on both front end and server side. Gather screenshots for at a glance review.

Bulk Analysis

Paste a list of web sites or host names and get an overview of any HTTP based services. Test up to 1000 sites at time.

Low Impact Research

Analysis is performed from a simple HTTP GET request. Low Impact. Use for Bug Bounties, Pentests and other Internet Research.

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Focused WordPress Testing

At a Glance Security Overview

Identify WordPress Core Version, plugins and more across a list of WordPress based properties.

WordPress Agencies

Review customer site status, prospective customers and internal sites in bulk. No impact.

Hunting for Weak Spots

Penetration Testers, Bug Bounty Hunters and Security Analysts can quickly review large numbers of sites to find 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.