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Attack surface management · the hacker's-eye view

See your company the way a hacker does.

Synapta finds everything you expose to the internet (forgotten subdomains, open ports, leaked secrets, exposed cloud storage), then shows the exact path an attacker would take to break in, in plain language, with the one fix that stops it.

First scan free · about five minutes · scan only domains you own
What Synapta hands you: a real attack path, in plain English
attack path · one of eightCRITICAL

An attacker begins at qa3.acmecorp.com, where a forgotten config file quietly lists every dependency you run.

From there they reach monitor.acmecorp.com across a shared subnet – its dashboard is open to anyone.

Inside it, a database password sits in plain text. postgres.acmecorp.com – your records – is now theirs.

Close the first step and the whole path falls apart. Synapta tells you which one.
Real attack paths, plain English

Not a list of issues. The route in – and the one fix that closes it.

Every finding Synapta surfaces is a step in a story. Here's the kind of thing it hands you, ready to forward to your team.

Leaked secret → databaseCritical

A forgotten qa3.acme.com exposes a config file listing every service you run.

A shared subnet makes monitor.acme.com's dashboard reachable.

Its config holds a plaintext DB password — your records are now theirs.

The fix: lock down one exposed config. The whole path collapses.
Open cloud bucketCritical

A public storage bucket named after your brand answers an anonymous listing request.

Inside: a database backup and an internal API key, left from a migration.

That key unlocks the live API — no break-in required.

The fix: make one bucket private. Done.
Subdomain takeoverHigh

promo.acme.com still points at a SaaS host you stopped using.

An attacker re-registers it and now serves content from your domain.

Phishing and cookie theft on a trusted name your users recognise.

The fix: remove one dangling DNS record.
In one scan
~5 minto first results
~40discovery sources
7,600+weakness checks
0agents or credentials
VISIBLEYour main domain & website: what you think your surface is.
JUST BELOWForgotten subdomains, staging & QA servers, dangling DNS.
DEEPEROpen ports, exposed admin panels, leaked tech versions.
DANGERPublic cloud buckets, exposed databases, secrets in configs.
CRITICALCredentials & data on dark-web leak sites: the crown jewels.
The problem

What you see exposed is a fraction of
what's actually out there.

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The problem

Your attack surface grows faster than anyone can track.

Every team that ships spins up new internet-facing infrastructure – and most of it never reaches a security review. The gaps don't announce themselves. An attacker finds them first.

Sprawl you can't see

Forgotten subdomains, staging servers, open cloud buckets, dangling DNS, and shadow IT inherited through acquisitions – surface no one is tracking.

Tools that look the wrong way

CSPM needs cloud credentials. Vulnerability managers need agents on every host. Neither sees what's exposed to a stranger on the open internet.

Flat lists, no story

Most scanners hand you a thousand-row CSV ranked by severity – with no idea which findings chain into a path that actually reaches something valuable.

Nobody's answering the only question that matters: what would an external attacker actually find – and how would they get from there to something that hurts?

Live · attack-path inferenceSCANNING
CARS risk 0
Step 1 · Discover

It starts with a single domain.

Point Synapta at one domain you own. That's the only input, the seed the whole map grows from.

Step 2 · Map the surface

Forgotten assets surface themselves.

Passive sources and DNS reveal the subdomains, staging boxes and shadow IT no one was tracking. Each one a new node on the graph.

Step 3 · Scan & probe

Open ports and services light up.

Synapta fingerprints what each asset exposes (services, technologies, live endpoints), attaching the detail an attacker would catalogue.

Step 4 · Find the weaknesses

The dangerous nodes turn red.

7,600+ templates plus exposure and takeover checks flag what's actually exploitable. Not a flat list, but pinned to where it lives.

Step 5 · Trace the path

One path reaches what matters.

The Attack Path Engine chains the weak points into the route an attacker would take to your crown jewels, scored by CARS, with the one fix that breaks it first.

How it works

Discover. Scan. Trace the path.

Point Synapta at a domain. It works through a nine-phase pipeline – the same sequence an attacker's recon would follow.

STEP 01

Discover

Map everything you own.

Six techniques surface assets you forgot you had – including company-owned domains that don't even share your name.

  • Subdomains via passive sources + brute-force
  • Shadow-IT: sister domains, subsidiaries, M&A
  • Open S3 / GCS / Azure / DO buckets
  • Public APIs + secrets in public code
Passive reconCertificate transparencyOwnership graphCloud storage
STEP 02

Scan

Test what's exposed.

Every live asset is probed, fingerprinted, and checked against thousands of templates – with honeypots filtered out.

  • Port scan, HTTP probe, tech fingerprint
  • 7,600+ vulnerability templates
  • Subdomain takeovers actively confirmed
  • DNS posture: SPF / DMARC / DKIM / DNSSEC
Port scanningHTTP probing7,600+ vuln checksSecret detection
STEP 03

Analyze

Trace the path.

Findings are scored by real-world exploit probability and business context, then assembled into the chains an attacker would walk.

  • Real-world exploit-probability on every finding
  • Context-aware risk scoring
  • Plain-English breach narratives, ranked
  • Drift detection scan-over-scan
Exploit probabilityContext-aware scoringAttack-path tracing
The difference

This isn't another flat list of vulnerabilities.

The Attack Path Intelligence Engine models your surface as a graph and walks it the way an adversary would – turning isolated findings into a sequence you can read like a sentence.

attack_path #1 · acmecorp.comCRITICAL

It starts at qa3.acmecorp.com – internet-facing, with a Composer config file exposed that leaks every dependency version.

That's enough to reach monitor.acmecorp.com over a shared cloud subnet, where a Grafana panel answers without a login.

The panel's datasource config holds a database password in the clear. postgres.acmecorp.com – the crown jewel – is reached.

Eight such paths on this surface. Synapta ranks them, and names the single hop that breaks each one.
read it as prose

A story, not a graph

Each hop is a sentence with the exploit detail and why it leads to the next. No hairball diagram to decode.

ranked by impact

The reachable risks first

A* pathfinding with stealth-budget pruning surfaces the chains that actually arrive at high-value assets.

one cut, whole chain

Fix the link, not everything

Close a single hop and the path collapses. Synapta shows you which one is cheapest to sever.

Capabilities

Everything an attacker would use, working for you.

Attack Path Intelligence Engine

Models your surface as a directed graph and enumerates the multi-hop chains from internet entry to crown-jewel asset – each with a deterministic, plain-English breach narrative.

A* + stealth-budget pruning

Shadow-IT Discovery

Six independent pivots – certificate transparency, favicon hashing, the Wikidata ownership graph, nameserver and registrant correlation – surface subsidiaries and acquired domains that share none of your branding. Every candidate is operator-reviewed.

6 pivots · human-gated

Active Takeover Validation

Other tools flag possible subdomain takeovers on inference and leave you to verify. Synapta re-fetches each one against an 18-provider signature table – confirmed takeovers are bumped to critical.

18 providers · actively confirmed

CARS Risk Scoring

Context-Aware Risk Scoring blends five sub-scores – exploitability, crown value, reachability, lateral movement, chain amplification – with daily EPSS exploit-probability, so ranking reflects real risk, not just CVSS.

5 sub-scores × live EPSS
External by design

You see exactly what an attacker sees. Period.

No agents. No credentials. No access to anything. Synapta works purely from the outside – the same vantage point a real attacker has – so what it finds is what they'd find. Nothing is assumed; everything is what's genuinely reachable.

The attacker's exact vantage point

Because Synapta only sees what's reachable from the open internet – no logins, no agents, no cloud access – every finding is something a real attacker could reach too. No internal noise, no false comfort.

Transparent operation

Every request to a public service carries an identifying Synapta-ASM User-Agent. We never spoof, rotate, or obfuscate who's asking.

Safe by construction

When we find a leaked secret, the database stores only 6+4 characters around it – never a usable copy of your credential.

License-clean codebase

Every dependency is permissively licensed – MIT, BSD, Apache 2.0, ISC, CC0. No GPL, AGPL, or SSPL. Commercially deployable today.

Start a free scan

Find out what you're exposing.

Enter a domain. Synapta discovers everything attached to it, scans it, and shows you the paths an attacker would walk – usually in about five minutes.

No agents to install · scan only domains you own or are authorised to test