Use Case - Attack Surface Management

You can't protect
what you cannot see.

Every port, service, application, domain, cloud API, and AI agent deployment your organization runs is a potential entry point. TDP's risk prevention module gives you real-time visibility across your entire attack surface, including shadow AI agents that standard asset inventory tools never capture, with continuous monitoring and policy enforcement that closes gaps before they are reached.

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Real-Time asset visibility across all environments
<0.03% false positive rate on detections
Full cloud, on-prem, and hybrid coverage
99.9% detection accuracy
The Problem

Attack surfaces grow faster than security teams can track

Cloud adoption, remote work, shadow IT, third-party integrations, and now AI agent deployments have made the concept of a defined network perimeter obsolete. Organizations that cannot see all of their exposed assets, including the AI services their teams are quietly spinning up, cannot prioritize risk or enforce policy consistently.

01
Shadow Assets — Including Shadow AI Agents
Developer test environments, forgotten cloud instances, and unauthorized SaaS integrations are the classic shadow IT problem. Now add AI agents: teams are deploying local LLM services, connecting internal systems to external AI APIs, and running agentic workflows, often without any IT or security visibility. These deployments expose internal data, open external callback paths, and create undocumented network services that no CMDB or vulnerability scanner captures.
02
Static Scans Miss Dynamic Infrastructure
Weekly or monthly vulnerability scans were designed for infrastructure that changes on quarterly cycles. Modern cloud environments add, remove, and modify assets continuously. A scan that ran six days ago is already an inaccurate picture of the current attack surface.
03
Risk Scores Without Context Are Useless
CVSS scores tell you vulnerability severity in the abstract. They do not tell you whether a vulnerable service is actively being probed, whether there is a known exploit in use by threat actors targeting your sector, or which exposed asset carries the highest actual business risk today.
How ThreatBook Solves It

Complete visibility. Continuous enforcement.

TDP's risk prevention module delivers comprehensive asset discovery across every environment your organization operates, cloud APIs, on-premises servers, remote endpoints, web applications, and domain infrastructure. Discovery is continuous, not scheduled, so the asset inventory reflects what is actually exposed right now.

Every discovered asset is assigned a risk score that incorporates real-world threat intelligence, whether a known exploit is in active circulation, whether the exposed service is a known attacker target in your sector, and whether behavioral signals from TDP's network monitoring suggest active reconnaissance.

Policy enforcement closes gaps automatically. When a misconfigured asset or prohibited exposure is detected, TDP triggers workflow actions, alerting the asset owner, creating a remediation ticket, or blocking traffic, without requiring a human to manually translate discovery findings into security actions.

  • Continuous discovery across cloud, on-prem, hybrid, and remote assets
  • AI agent and service discovery: TDP maps all agent deployments on endpoints, servers, and cloud, including shadow agents with no approved inventory entry
  • Risk scoring informed by live threat intelligence, not just CVSS
  • Policy-based enforcement with automated remediation workflows
  • Attack surface trend reporting for board-level and compliance audiences
Core Capabilities

See everything. Enforce everywhere.

TDP's attack surface management capabilities span the full asset lifecycle, from initial discovery through risk prioritization, policy enforcement, and ongoing monitoring.

 
Continuous Asset Discovery
TDP actively discovers all assets communicating on your network: servers, endpoints, cloud instances, IoT devices, APIs, SaaS applications, and AI agent services. It maintains a live inventory that updates in real time as infrastructure changes. No scheduled scans, no stale data.
 
Ports, Services, and Application Mapping
Every exposed port, running service, and application version is catalogued with its network position, access controls, and exposure status. Unauthorized or unexpected services trigger immediate alerts, allowing security teams to investigate before attackers do.
 
Cloud API and Domain Inventory
Cloud APIs and domain infrastructure are tracked and monitored for unauthorized changes, certificate expiry, misconfiguration, and exposure to known attack patterns. Subdomains, external-facing APIs, and DNS records are included in the continuous discovery scope.
 
Intelligence-Informed Risk Scoring
Risk scores incorporate TDP's behavioral detection signals alongside global threat intelligence, active exploit availability, attacker reconnaissance patterns, and sector-specific targeting data. A score reflects real exploitation likelihood, not just theoretical vulnerability severity.
<0.03%
false positive rate on risk detections
 
Policy Enforcement and Gap Closure
Define acceptable exposure policies for each asset class and environment. When TDP detects a policy violation, an open port that should be closed, a service running on an unmanaged host, an API accepting traffic from unauthorized subnets, enforcement actions trigger automatically.
 
Attack Surface Trend Reporting
Track how your organization's attack surface changes over time: assets added, exposures closed, risk score progression, policy compliance rates. Reports serve both technical remediation tracking and board-level risk communication without requiring separate tooling or manual data compilation.
 
AI Agent and Service Discovery
TDP continuously monitors network traffic to automatically discover and map AI agents deployed on office endpoints, local servers, and public cloud infrastructure, including host identification and open port status. It detects sensitive behaviors: external access to internal agent services, internal device-to-agent traffic, and outbound connections from hosts accessing external AI instances outside approved policy. Shadow AI deployments surface immediately, not at the next quarterly review.
Real-Time
AI agent discovery across endpoints, servers, and cloud
Discovery Workflow

From unknown asset to enforced policy

TDP's attack surface management loop runs continuously. No manual triggers, no scheduled scan windows, no waiting for the quarterly review to find what changed last month.

1
Continuous Network Observation
TDP monitors all network traffic across your environments, cloud VPCs, on-premises segments, remote access gateways, and hybrid interconnects. Every communicating entity is observed and catalogued without requiring agents on individual assets.
2
Asset Identification and Classification
Discovered assets are classified by type, role, owner, and environment. Unknown or unexpected assets, new cloud instances, rogue devices, shadow SaaS, and AI agent services surface immediately with full network context. For AI deployments specifically, TDP identifies the host, open ports, inbound and outbound traffic patterns, and whether the agent is accessing external services outside approved policy.
3
Exposure Mapping and Risk Scoring
For every asset, TDP maps all exposed ports, services, and applications, both internally and externally facing. Each exposure is scored using behavioral signals from TDP's detection engine and threat intelligence data, producing a risk rank that reflects actual attacker interest and exploit availability.
4
Policy Evaluation and Gap Detection
Discovered exposures are evaluated against configured security policies. Any deviation, an open port that violates policy, a service running outside its approved environment, a domain with an expiring certificate, is flagged with severity, asset ownership, and recommended remediation action.
5
Remediation Workflow and Verification
Policy violations trigger remediation workflows automatically, alerting owners, creating ITSM tickets, or applying direct enforcement actions where integration permits. TDP verifies closure by continuing to monitor the asset, confirming the exposure is actually resolved rather than just marked closed in a ticket system.
Measured Outcomes

Visibility that drives action

Attack surface management only delivers value when discovered risks translate into closed exposures. TDP's continuous monitoring and policy enforcement model ensures visibility creates measurable risk reduction.

Real-Time
Asset Inventory Currency
TDP's continuous observation model keeps the asset inventory current without scheduled scans. New assets appear within minutes of their first network communication. Changes to existing assets, new services, modified configurations, additional exposures, are reflected immediately.
<0.03%
False Positive Rate
Risk findings that turn out to be false positives waste remediation capacity and erode trust in the tooling. TDP's sub-0.03% false positive rate means security teams act on real exposures rather than spending time validating whether a flagged risk is genuine before beginning investigation.
99.9%
Detection Accuracy
Comprehensive attack surface management requires that real exposures are not missed. TDP's 99.9% detection accuracy on network-level threats ensures that the asset inventory and risk model reflect what is actually present in your environment, not a filtered subset of what a scanner happened to find.
Product Powering This Use Case

Built on TDP

Network Detection and Response
TDP
Threat Detection Platform (NDR). ML-powered behavioral detection with cloud sandbox, zero-day capability, and risk prevention module for comprehensive attack surface visibility. Covers cloud, on-premises, hybrid, encrypted traffic, and AI agent network discovery. <0.03% false positive rate.
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AI Supply Chain
SafeSkill
AI Agent Skill Security Platform. Where TDP discovers shadow AI agents at the network level, SafeSkill secures the Skills those agents run, scanning for malicious code, prompt injection, data exfiltration logic, and C2 callbacks before any Skill enters your environment. 100,000+ validated Skills in Skill Hub.
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