# **Attack Surface Management**

## Synack’s Attack Surface Discovery (ASD) manages your external attack surface with dynamic asset discovery and on-demand pentesting

###### **A Fully Integrated Platform Offering**

Your security operations team is overwhelmed by potential vulnerabilities and keeping your organization’s digital environment reined in. Instead of sorting through low-level vulnerabilities and hounding departments to update the security team, try an attack surface management solution that helps improve security posture and address unknown, internet-facing assets.

Attack Surface Discovery (ASD) is not just a standalone feature. It is part of a larger security testing platform that offers on-demand penetration testing, access to the community-powered Synack Red Team (SRT), an API and integrations, vulnerability management and customer and engineering support.

As networks sprawl and more assets are transferred to the cloud, honing in on potential security issues such as unsecured devices, unknown IP addresses and rogue assets can give your security team more peace of mind. By continuously monitoring your organization’s attack surface, you can reduce cyber risk and improve cyber resilience.

### Why do I need to monitor my external attack surface?

Assets to be tested may be unknown to your security team. In addition, testing timing has never been more critical. Your security team needs to secure external exposures and insecure systems before threat actors can exploit them.

[Read Blog](/content/blog/mind-the-gap-attack-surface-discovery-and-ptaas/index.html)

### What is Synack’s Attack Surface Discovery?

Continuous Attack Surface Discovery (ASD) is included with the Synack Platform, enabling self-service asset discovery, asset inventory, asset insights and visibility into newly discovered assets.

[See Demo](/content/videos/how-attack-surface-discovery-strengthens-ptaas-initiatives/index.html)

### Benefits of Using Synack to Manage Your Attack Surface

#### Accurate Inventory

You can’t test what you don’t know. Security teams can instantly leverage ASD to discover and inventory unknown, and often untested, assets affiliated with their organization’s external attack surface.

#### Continuous Discovery

Synack’s discovery engine runs continuously to surface new web, IP and FQDN assets and changes to existing assets, so you can keep pace with app developers and other departments across your organization.

#### Actionable Results

Visibility without action is just noise. Synack provides access to an easy security testing workflow to surface exploitable vulnerabilities.

#### Third-Party Visibility

Synack provides visibility into the external asset inventories of subsidiaries, acquisitions, teams or suppliers via passive scanning. Tailor user permissions via role-based access controls (RBAC) to groups of assets.

### Discover, Prioritize and Pentest Your Critical Assets

#### Self-Service Asset Discovery

**Control and organize the scanning of your assets**

Add an asset (e.g. domain, IPv4 host) to a group and then launch a scan at the click of a button. Groups provide control around access and help attribute assets to specific teams, subsidiaries or other parties.

#### Discovered Assets

**Manage all discovered assets**

Access all discovered assets in a single dashboard and confirm or reject assets individually or in bulk. Accepted assets will appear alongside all assets under management with Synack and be scanned for suspected vulnerabilities.

#### Asset Insights

**Inventory and fingerprint discovered and tested assets**

Asset Insights provides fingerprint data on external host assets, which can inform decisions about SRT-led testing. Confirmed assets show SmartScan® suspected vulnerabilities, while assets under testing show exploitable vulnerabilities found by the SRT and last time tested.

#### Asset Dashboard

**Investigate assets in a single pane of glass**

Filter by seed group or assessment. Review discovered assets, top vulnerable assets, top CISA CVEs or recently added assets.

### Test Your External Assets Through the Synack Platform

Synack provides an end-to-end solution that continuously discovers and monitors external assets and delivers on-demand testing, vulnerability scanning and patch verification in a single platform.

[Learn more about Synack’s Pentesting](/content/platform/penetration-testing-as-a-service/index.html)

### FAQ

###### Learn more about Synack’s Attack Surface Discovery

###### What is Attack Surface Discovery (ASD)?

Attack Surface Discovery (ASD) is a new Synack offering. ASD enables self-service asset discovery, asset inventory, asset insights and visibility into newly discovered assets.

###### What are the benefits of ASD?

The main benefit of ASD is more effective external attack surface management through continuous attack surface discovery and on-demand pentesting. ASD is not a standalone feature, but part of a larger platform that offers customer and engineering support, on-demand security testing, an API and integrations, and vulnerability management. The ability to form an accurate inventory for pentesting, uncover actionable assets and insights regularly, investigate potential risks and vulnerabilities, and increase third party visibility are additional benefits of the ASD offering.

###### What types of assets does Synack discover?

Synack discovers IPv4 hosts, web applications, and FQDN assets.

### Additional Resources

### Attack Surface Discovery Datasheet

[Read Datasheet](/content/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/synack-attack-surface-discovery-ds.pdf)

### Attack Surface Discovery & Asset Insights Detailed FAQ

[FAQ](/content/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/synack-ASD-FAQ_.pdf)

### Asset Insights Datasheet

[Read Datasheet](/content/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/synack-Asset-Insights-ds.pdf)