When vulnerability discovery gets faster, external visibility matters more.

As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery, organizations need to know what is externally visible before disclosure events, audit deadlines, or urgent patch cycles create pressure.

Canary Trap’s External Exposure Readiness Assessment gives qualifying organizations a practical view of their internet-facing environment, including visible assets, exposed services, legacy technologies, and readiness gaps that may warrant deeper validation.

Using passive reconnaissance and low-impact validation, Canary Trap helps identify exposure across domains, subdomains, IPs, services, and externally reachable systems so your team can prioritize what may need attention first.

Vulnerability discovery is getting faster. Your visibility needs to keep up.

Recent announcements from Anthropic and OpenAI point to the same shift: advanced AI is becoming more capable of supporting vulnerability discovery, code analysis, and defensive cybersecurity workflows.

For security teams, the practical question is not whether vulnerabilities exist. It is whether they know what is externally visible before the next disclosure event, audit deadline, or patch cycle creates pressure.

Learn why this shift matters for your external attack surface. 

A practical external snapshot your team can act on immediately.

External Asset Inventory

A focused inventory of your internet-facing systems, services, subdomains, and entry points discovered during the assessment.

Readiness Observations

Practical notes on visible gaps: legacy exposure, unowned assets, externally reachable systems that may need attention before the next disclosure cycle.

Prioritized Next Steps

Clear recommendations that tell your team where to focus, what to validate, and what warrants deeper testing — without burying you in a generic findings list.

Findings Walkthrough

A 30-minute session with a Canary Trap consultant to review key observations, answer your questions, and discuss what they mean for your security program.

Three steps. No disruption to your environment.

You submit your primary domains

Tell us which domains and known public-facing systems to treat as in scope. That's all we need to get started. 

We perform a passive external review

Canary Trap uses passive reconnaissance and low-impact validation to map your externally visible attack surface — no credentials required, no disruption to your systems. 

You receive a written report and a walkthrough

We deliver your external asset inventory, readiness observations, and prioritized next steps, then walk you through the findings in a 30-minute session. 

This assessment is built for security and IT leaders who already understand why external exposure matters.

  • Cloud or hybrid infrastructure, customer-facing applications, or API-driven environments
  • Internet-facing systems across multiple domains, business units, or regions
  • Upcoming SOC 2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, cyber insurance, or customer security review requirements
  • Recent infrastructure changes, cloud migrations, acquisitions, or new application releases
  • A security or IT owner who can act on findings
  • Uncertainty about what is currently reachable from the internet

Security leaders trust Canary Trap because we tell them what their environment actually looks like.

NPS > 95%

Clients rate us higher than almost every other security vendor in the market. The reason is consistent: clear reporting, no filler, and findings they can actually act on.

SOC 2 Type II Certified

We hold ourselves to the same standards we help clients meet. Your data and engagement details are handled with documented controls and independent verification.

2026 Global InfoSec Award Winner

Recognized by Cyber Defense Magazine for Pioneering Penetration Testing and Transformational Offensive Security.

Solely Focused on Offensive Security

No managed services, no endpoint tools, no compliance software. Every consultant we have works in offensive security. That focus shows in the quality of the work.

Common questions

How is this different from a vulnerability scan we already run?

Internal scans tell you about known assets in your inventory. This assessment works from the outside — identifying what is discoverable from the internet, including assets that may not be in your inventory at all. They answer different questions. 

What does Canary Trap need from us to start?

Your primary domains, a point of contact, and any known exclusions or third-party systems you don't want assessed. That's it. 

What's not included?

This is not a full penetration test. It doesn't include exploitation, authenticated testing, internal network review, web application testing, or source code review. If deeper validation is appropriate after the findings, we'll tell you what we'd recommend. 

How long does it take?

We'll confirm timing when your application is reviewed. Assessments are conducted in the order applications are received and subject to capacity for qualifying organizations. 

The next major vulnerability disclosure is a matter of when, not if.

Organizations that know their external exposure posture before that happens can respond in hours. Organizations that don't spend the first 48 hours figuring out what they have. Canary Trap's complimentary assessment gives your team a clear picture of what's externally visible, what's been overlooked, and where to focus before urgency takes the choice away.