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Asset Discovery

The process of identifying all internet-facing assets — domains, subdomains, IPs, and services — belonging to an organization.

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What is Asset Discovery?

What is Asset Discovery?

Asset discovery is the first step in attack surface management. Organizations often have more internet-facing assets than they realize: forgotten subdomains, development servers, cloud instances, and third-party services. Automated asset discovery uses techniques like DNS enumeration, certificate transparency log scanning, WHOIS lookups, and port scanning to build a complete inventory. Without knowing what you have exposed, you cannot protect it.

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