Your Public-Facing Risk Changes Every Day
Your organization’s external footprint rarely stays the same. DNS records are updated, certificates expire, employee credentials appear in breach data, and new domains are registered using names similar to your brand.
SurfaceWatch brings these findings into one dashboard, adds context and risk scoring, and keeps each issue visible through remediation or documented risk acceptance. Your team can see what changed, understand why it matters, and determine what needs attention first.
When Is SurfaceWatch the Right Fit?
SurfaceWatch is built for organizations that need a clearer, more consistent way to manage public-facing exposure, particularly when they face the following challenges.
Large or Distributed Domain Portfolios
Manage dozens or hundreds of domains across business units, locations, or brands without losing visibility.
Incomplete
Asset Visibility
Identify internet-facing assets that may be missing from internal inventories or ownership records.
Disconnected Exposure Workflows
Bring DNS, certificate, credential, and vulnerability findings together instead of reviewing them across separate tools.
Remediation
Tracking Gaps
Assign findings, track progress, and document outcomes without relying on spreadsheets or disconnected processes.
What Does SurfaceWatch Monitor?
SurfaceWatch monitors the public-facing systems, settings, and signals that attackers can discover or misuse.
DNS and Domain Record Changes
Flags changes that may point to misconfiguration, unauthorized activity, or domain takeover risk.
Lookalike and Phishing Domains
Monitors newly discovered domains that resemble your organization or brand and uses AI-assisted triage to assess phishing, fraud, or impersonation risk.
Exposed Employee Credentials
Identifies employee credentials found in public breach sources that could increase the likelihood of unauthorized access.
SSL/TLS
Certificate Health
Tracks certificate expiration dates and configuration issues that could affect service availability or user trust.
External Vulnerability Scanning
Continuously scans internet-facing systems for vulnerabilities, enriches findings with recognized risk data, and provides AI-assisted remediation guidance.
Email Authentication Settings
Checks SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configurations for weaknesses that could make spoofing or impersonation easier.
Alerts and Reporting
Provides configurable alerts when new issues appear and supports scheduled or on-demand reporting.
Exposure and Risk Trends
Uses exposure scoring and historical reporting to show how public-facing risk changes over time.
How Does SurfaceWatch Help?
Understand Each Finding
See what changed, which asset it affects, and why it matters across issues such as exposed credentials, expired certificates, and suspicious domains.
Prioritize Remediation
Use risk scoring, vulnerability intelligence, and finding history to separate urgent issues from lower-priority changes.
Track Findings Through Resolution
Follow each issue through investigation and remediation, then document the outcome or record accepted risk.
How Is SurfaceWatch Delivered?
Use the Platform Directly
Access SurfaceWatch as a SaaS platform to review findings, assign owners, track remediation, and generate reports.
Add CISO Global Support
Pair SurfaceWatch with CISO Global security services for analyst review, investigation, and remediation support.
SurfaceWatch for MSSPs
SurfaceWatch gives MSSPs one multi-tenant view across customer environments. Customer findings, remediation history, and reports remain separate by account. MSSPs can use a consistent process to review changes, prioritize work, and document outcomes across their customer base.
Monitor Multiple Customers
Review customer environments from one platform.
Maintain Customer Separation
Keep findings, history, and reports organized by customer.
Standardize Reporting
Generate scheduled or on-demand reports without maintaining a different reporting process for every account.
Why SurfaceWatch?
External risk data often sits across separate tools, alerts, and reports, making it difficult to understand what changed or follow an issue through resolution.
SurfaceWatch brings monitoring, prioritization, reporting, remediation tracking, and risk acceptance into one workflow.
SurfaceWatch draws on CISO Global expertise across security operations, risk, compliance, and remediation.
Get a Clearer View of Your Public-Facing Exposure
Explore how SurfaceWatch helps your team identify issues, prioritize findings, and track them from discovery through resolution.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is SurfaceWatch?
SurfaceWatch is a continuous external cyber exposure monitoring platform. It monitors changes involving domains, DNS records, exposed credentials, email authentication, SSL/TLS certificates, suspicious domains, and vulnerabilities across internet-facing systems.
The platform provides exposure scoring, historical trends, configurable alerts, custom reporting, remediation guidance, and tools for tracking findings through resolution or formal risk acceptance.
How is SurfaceWatch different from a vulnerability scanner?
A vulnerability scanner identifies vulnerabilities across internet-facing assets. SurfaceWatch also monitors domain and DNS changes, exposed credentials, lookalike domains, email authentication settings, certificate health, and other signs of public-facing exposure.
SurfaceWatch brings these findings into one workflow with exposure scoring, historical reporting, remediation tracking, and tools for documenting outcomes.
Will SurfaceWatch create more alerts for my team to manage?
SurfaceWatch adds context instead of simply producing another alert feed. Exposure scores, vulnerability intelligence, historical trends, and configurable notifications help teams focus on the findings most likely to require action.
What happens after SurfaceWatch identifies an issue?
SurfaceWatch keeps findings visible as they move through investigation and remediation. Teams can track progress, document the outcome, and record risk acceptance when an issue cannot be resolved immediately.
Can SurfaceWatch support compliance and executive reporting?
Yes. SurfaceWatch provides scheduled and on-demand reports, historical trends, remediation status, and documented risk acceptance. Security leaders can use this information to communicate open issues, changes in exposure, and remediation progress to executives, auditors, and other stakeholders.
Can MSSPs use SurfaceWatch?
Yes. SurfaceWatch supports multi-tenant monitoring and customer-specific exposure management. MSSPs can oversee findings, track remediation, and produce scheduled or on-demand reports for individual customer environments.