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External Attack Surface Management for Alberta Businesses

Not just what shows up on a diagram someone drew two years ago. Your website, domains, and every public-facing system scanned regularly for open technical backdoors — before someone else finds them first.

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What It Actually Is

You can't secure what you don't know is exposed.

Every business has a bigger public footprint than most owners realize. It's not just the main website — it's the old subdomain nobody's touched in years, the staging site spun up for a project and never taken down, a cloud service a contractor set up and forgot about, a DNS record left pointing somewhere it shouldn't. Each one is a door facing the internet, whether or not anyone's actually watching it.

This checks your business from the outside in — the same vantage point an attacker gets — and does it on a regular, ongoing basis rather than as a one-time audit. Open ports, exposed admin panels, expired certificates, and outdated software versions visible from outside all get flagged. Automated scanning tools sweep the entire internet constantly looking for exactly this kind of exposure; the only real question is whether it gets found and fixed by your side first, or theirs.

30%
Blind to Their Own Footprint
of large organizations have visibility into less than three-quarters of their own internet-facing assets
3×
Fewer Breaches
organizations running continuous exposure management are roughly three times less likely to suffer a breach
Hours
Not Days, to Get Weaponized
how quickly a newly disclosed vulnerability gets used once it's public — a once-a-day scan already leaves real exposure

Source: Searchlight Cyber, 2026 Attack Surface Management Market Trends Report.

Why This Actually Works

Attackers already scan the entire internet. The only question is whether you check first.

Most scanning aimed at small businesses isn't personal — it's automated, constant, and opportunistic. It sweeps the internet looking for known-vulnerable software, open ports, and exposed panels, and it doesn't care whose business it belongs to. If something is exposed and vulnerable, it gets found eventually. The only variable that's actually in your control is timing.

The exposure that actually causes damage is rarely the main website everyone's already watching. It's the forgotten piece — an old subdomain, a test server nobody shut down, a vendor's tool still quietly connected to company systems. Regular external scanning is what surfaces that kind of thing before it becomes the entry point nobody saw coming.

The Jargon, Decoded

Terms you might see, translated.

What the industry calls itWhat it actually meansWhy it matters to you
EASM (External Attack Surface Management)Finding everything you expose to the internetThe umbrella term for exactly what this page covers — an outside-in inventory of every public-facing system, known or forgotten.
Shadow ITTech nobody signed off on, still runningAn old subdomain, a trial cloud account, a contractor's tool still connected — none of it shows up on any official list, which is exactly why it's dangerous.
Open PortA door left answering, used or notA service left reachable from the internet, often long after anyone remembers turning it on in the first place.
Attack SurfaceEverything exposed, added togetherNot a single website — every domain, subdomain, server, and service reachable from outside your business, all at once.

How It Actually Runs

The process, start to finish.

1

Your footprint gets mapped from the outside in

From the same vantage point an attacker has — not just a list of what your team remembers setting up.

2

Forgotten and shadow assets get surfaced

Old subdomains, abandoned test environments, and vendor tools nobody remembers connecting all get pulled into view.

3

Open exposures get flagged before someone else finds them

Checked on a regular, ongoing basis — not a one-time snapshot taken when the plan started.

Included, Not Upsold

External attack surface management is in every LogosCyber plan.

This isn't a feature you have to upgrade to get. Every plan gets the same ongoing external scanning — the only choice across tiers is your Cork Cyber financial warranty level, not whether your public footprint is actually being checked.

Common Questions

What business owners ask before signing up.

“We don't have anything special exposed to the internet — do we even need this?”

Most businesses have more exposed than they think.

Old subdomains, forgotten test environments, and cloud accounts spun up for a single project add up fast, even at a small business, and most owners have never actually seen the full list.

“How is this different from vulnerability management?”

Different starting point, same overall goal.

Vulnerability management checks systems already on your known inventory for unpatched holes. This discovers what's exposed to the internet in the first place, including things that were never on any list at all.

“What happens if you find something we didn't even know was running?”

It gets flagged, reviewed, and handled.

Finding exactly that kind of forgotten or shadow asset is the whole point. It gets brought to your attention and addressed rather than left running quietly in the background.

“How often does this actually run?”

Regularly and ongoing, not a one-time check.

Your public footprint changes as new tools, subdomains, and cloud services get added, so this runs on an ongoing basis rather than as a single audit done when the plan started.

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Find out what your business is actually exposing to the internet.

A free, no-obligation security assessment tells you exactly where things stand — no jargon, no pressure.

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