Penetration Testing & Attack SimulationVulnerability Management
Detectify Platform
EASM and payload-based DAST for internet-facing domains, apps, and APIs, via crowdsourced research.
Detectify Platform Overview
What it does
Detectify is an application security platform that combines External Attack Surface Management (EASM) with Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) to find vulnerabilities across an organization's internet-facing domains, applications, and APIs. Its defining mechanism is Crowdsource, a vetted community of ethical hackers whose vulnerability research is reviewed internally and converted into automated, payload-based tests that run against every customer's assets.
How it works
Surface Monitoring continuously discovers and classifies external assets, tracking domains, subdomains, and applications as they change and flagging exposures such as subdomain takeovers. Application Scanning and API Scanning then crawl and fuzz those assets, maintaining authenticated sessions to reach protected areas, with testing that relies entirely on real payloads rather than version-based inference. Findings from the Crowdsource pipeline feed directly into the scanners, so newly disclosed and zero-day issues in widely used frameworks and libraries are tested across the customer base shortly after they are validated.
Credentials and traction
Detectify holds ISO 27001 certification for its information security management system. The platform serves more than 10,000 users across technology, government, media, and gaming organizations, with named customers including Trustly, Storytel, New Relic, and the UK Government.
Key Capabilities
mapped to solution categoriesRoutes high-confidence automated findings to human pentesters for validation, chaining, and exploitation depth that automated tools cannot achieve.
Executes penetration testing techniques continuously against defined scope, identifying new attack paths as the environment changes rather than capturing a point-in-time view.
Executes attack techniques using non-destructive payloads (read-only filesystem access, non-weaponized exploitation), designed to confirm exploitability without causing service impact.
Ranks discovered exposures by combining exploitability signals, asset business context, and active threat intelligence to produce an actionable remediation queue.
Identifies software stacks, versions, and components running on discovered assets through passive banner analysis and active probing, mapping CVE exposure without authenticated scanning.
Enumerates and monitors the attack surface of subsidiaries, acquired companies, and affiliated brands, common gap during M&A activity when new infrastructure is inherited without full visibility.
Continuously enumerates internet-exposed assets (domains, IPs, subdomains, certificates, cloud storage, APIs) using passive DNS, certificate transparency logs, and active probing, including assets outside the official inventory.
Identifies cloud resources, SaaS applications, and exposed services deployed by business units without IT or security team visibility or approval.
Tracks SSL/TLS certificate expirations, newly registered lookalike domains, and subdomain takeover opportunities (dangling DNS records pointing to deprovisioned cloud services).
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Info last updated on June 30, 2026