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Outpost24 External Attack Surface Management

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What is Outpost24 External Attack Surface Management

Outpost24 External Attack Surface Management is a security platform that helps organizations discover, inventory, and monitor internet-facing assets and exposures across domains, IPs, cloud services, and third-party infrastructure. It is used by security and risk teams to reduce unknown external assets, identify misconfigurations, and prioritize remediation based on observed exposure. The product focuses on continuous external discovery and risk reporting rather than providing a connectivity layer or access broker for users.

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Continuous external asset discovery

The product is designed to identify and track internet-facing assets that may not be fully represented in internal CMDBs or cloud inventories. It supports ongoing monitoring to detect new hosts, services, and changes over time. This helps teams reduce blind spots created by decentralized cloud adoption and shadow IT.

Exposure-focused security findings

It emphasizes externally observable weaknesses such as open ports/services, certificate and DNS issues, and misconfigurations that increase attackability. Findings are oriented around what an attacker can see from the internet, which complements internal vulnerability scanning. This approach can help prioritize remediation for assets that are actually reachable from outside the network.

Risk reporting for stakeholders

The product supports reporting and tracking that can be used by security operations and governance teams to communicate exposure and remediation progress. It is suited to recurring assessments and continuous assurance programs. This can be useful when coordinating remediation across IT, cloud, and application owners.

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Not an SDP access control

Despite being adjacent to perimeter and access security, external attack surface management does not provide software-defined perimeter capabilities such as identity-based access enforcement, device posture checks, or application-level connectivity. Organizations still need separate controls for user-to-app access and zero-trust connectivity. This can create additional integration and operational overhead when teams expect an access solution.

Limited internal visibility

Because it focuses on externally reachable assets, it may not cover internal-only systems, east-west traffic, or endpoint posture in the way internal scanners or network access platforms do. Some risks require authenticated scanning or agent-based telemetry to validate. Teams typically need complementary tools to achieve full vulnerability and configuration coverage.

Remediation depends on integrations

The platform can identify and track exposures, but fixing issues usually requires workflows in ticketing, cloud management, or security operations tooling. If integrations and ownership mapping are incomplete, findings can remain unresolved or be difficult to route. Mature asset ownership and change management processes are often necessary to realize consistent remediation outcomes.

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Custom / Contact Sales Not published (custom pricing) Pricing is tailored to organization size/scope/goals; Outpost24 requests that customers complete a form to receive a custom quote. Public site indicates no simple published pricing. Demo/analysis offering available.

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Outpost24 AB
Karlskrona, Sweden
2001
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https://outpost24.com/
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