External Attack Surface Management
Continuously discover domains, subdomains, services, technologies, certificates, misconfigurations and exposed infrastructure across the public attack surface.
ThreatCanary for Government & Digital Services
Protect citizen-facing services from exposed attack paths.
Government digital services connect citizen portals, identity platforms, public APIs, cloud workloads, suppliers and legacy systems. ThreatCanary helps teams discover exposed services, validate reachable weaknesses and prioritise attack paths that could affect public trust, citizen data or service continuity.
Executive summary
Government organisations operate high-trust digital services that citizens rely on for identity, payments, benefits, licensing, records, case management and public information. Those services increasingly depend on internet-facing portals, APIs, cloud workloads, third-party delivery partners and legacy systems that were not always designed to be exposed.
The issue is not simply whether a CVE exists somewhere in the estate. The issue is whether an attacker can see an asset, reach it, chain it with identity or API behaviour, and turn a technical weakness into service disruption, data exposure or public trust damage.
ThreatCanary helps government teams move from static lists of findings to validated exposure intelligence: what is exposed, what is exploitable, what connects to sensitive services, and what needs to be fixed first.
Protected digital government
Protect the services citizens rely on.
ThreatCanary helps government teams understand which exposed services, APIs, identity flows, supplier pathways and legacy systems could become real attack routes before they affect citizens.
Government exposure plane
Citizen services, identity flows and supplier systems create one connected exposure plane.
ThreatCanary maps public services, APIs, identity systems, cloud assets and supplier-operated platforms into one evidence-backed view of government exposure.
ThreatCanaryGovernment exposure graph
Citizen portalsPublic services and self-service applications
Digital identityAuthentication and access boundaries
Public APIsPartner and platform integration endpoints
Cloud servicesHosted workloads and misconfigurations
Supplier systemsVendor-operated services and delivery platforms
Identity + supplier pathways
Citizen trust boundary
Sector challenge
The sector challenge
Public-sector environments are rarely owned by one team. Agencies, shared-service providers, digital delivery teams, cloud teams, vendors and systems integrators all contribute to the external attack surface. In Australia, ASD guidance, Essential Eight uplift programs and citizen-service modernisation create a need for evidence-backed visibility across public services and suppliers. New services are launched quickly, legacy applications remain online longer than planned, and asset inventories often lag behind reality.
Citizen-facing platforms create a different risk profile from ordinary enterprise IT. A low-severity issue on a forgotten service can become serious if it connects to identity, payments, records, case management, supplier access or a trusted government domain.
Security teams need continuous visibility and validation, but they also need findings that are defensible. Government leaders need evidence that explains impact, ownership and remediation priority without forcing them to interpret raw scanner output.
Attack surface
The attack surface
Citizen service portals and self-service applicationsDigital identity and authentication flowsPublic APIs and integration endpointsCloud-hosted digital servicesSupplier-operated applications and managed servicesLegacy web applications and older platformsForgotten domains, subdomains and campaign micrositesExposed admin interfaces and management consolesCase-management, records and workflow systemsPublic-facing test, staging and pre-production environmentsMisconfigured services, headers, certificates and trust boundariesData workflows that connect citizens, agencies and delivery partners
Why traditional security falls short
Why traditional security falls short
Point-in-time penetration tests and annual assurance exercises are useful, but they cannot keep pace with continuous digital delivery. By the time a report is reviewed, new APIs, domains, suppliers or cloud services may already be exposed.
Basic vulnerability scanners can identify known issues, but they often treat findings as isolated technical events. They do not reliably explain whether a service is internet-visible, whether it matters to a citizen workflow, whether it connects to identity, or whether it can be chained into a realistic attack path.
Government teams need a system that understands context: asset ownership, exposure, API behaviour, identity paths, supplier dependencies, exploitability and evidence.
How ThreatCanary helps
ThreatCanary continuously discovers exposed services, APIs, technologies and trust boundaries across digital government environments. It validates what is visible and reachable, identifies unmanaged or supplier-hosted assets, reasons across attack paths and produces evidence security leaders can act on.
Instead of forcing teams to triage thousands of disconnected findings, ThreatCanary helps answer the operational question that matters: which exposed systems could realistically affect citizen services, sensitive data, operational continuity or public trust?
Validated government attack paths
From exposed service to citizen-impacting risk.
ThreatCanary helps government teams validate which exposed weaknesses can be chained through identity, APIs, suppliers or legacy systems into meaningful public-service risk.
ThreatCanaryValidated service risk
Public serviceCitizen-facing portals and forms
Identity boundaryAuthentication, session and access-control logic
Supplier/API pathPartner systems and integration endpoints
Citizen impactData, service continuity and trust exposure
Identity + supplier pathways
Citizen trust boundary
Key capabilities
Key capabilities
Citizen Portal Exposure Discovery
Identify weaknesses across public service portals, self-service applications, campaign sites, forms and citizen-facing workflows.
API Security
Discover exposed, forgotten or risky APIs that support digital services, mobile applications, partner integrations and internal-to-external workflows.
Identity and Access Path Visibility
Understand how authentication, session handling, access control and identity boundaries affect exposure.
Supplier-Facing Exposure Monitoring
Surface assets operated by vendors, delivery partners and managed service providers that may sit outside normal agency inventories.
Exposure Validation
Validate whether weaknesses are visible, reachable and meaningful before teams spend time remediating low-impact noise.
Attack Path Reasoning
Map how exposed services, APIs, vulnerabilities, technologies and trust boundaries can combine into realistic compromise paths.
Continuous Monitoring
Track exposure as digital services, suppliers, cloud workloads and public APIs change over time.
Executive Cyber Risk Visibility
Translate technical exposure into evidence-backed reporting for CISOs, executives, boards, ministers and risk leaders.
Sector-specific use cases
Sector-specific use cases
Outcomes
Outcomes
Clearer visibility of citizen-facing digital exposure
Reduced risk across public services, APIs and identity workflows
Better prioritisation for security, platform and digital delivery teams
Stronger protection of citizen data, service continuity and public trust
Improved supplier and shared-service oversight
More defensible remediation decisions backed by evidence
Executive reporting that connects technical risk to public-service impact
Buyer roles
Built for the teams responsible for reducing exposure.
CISOs and security executives
Evidence-backed visibility of public-facing risk, remediation priorities and exposure reduction across critical services.
Security operations teams
Continuous discovery, validation and prioritisation of exposed assets, APIs and vulnerabilities.
Digital service and platform teams
Actionable insight into exposed services, API drift, misconfigurations and risky deployments.
Application and API security teams
Better visibility of business logic, authentication boundaries, public APIs and citizen-facing workflows.
Risk and governance leaders
Reporting that connects technical findings to citizen trust, operational continuity and assurance outcomes.
Suppliers and delivery partners
Shared evidence that helps teams remediate the right exposure without arguing over scanner noise.
Common questions
Questions teams ask before they commit.
Direct answers on scope, evidence, safety controls and how ThreatCanary differs from tools you already run.
01How does ThreatCanary help government agencies discover exposed services?
ThreatCanary helps government agencies continuously discover exposed citizen portals, public APIs, digital identity surfaces, legacy applications, cloud services and supplier-operated assets, then validates which weaknesses are reachable and meaningful rather than treating every scanner finding as equal.
02Can ThreatCanary help with citizen-facing portals and digital identity exposure?
ThreatCanary can help public-sector teams understand exposure around citizen-facing portals and digital identity workflows by mapping externally visible services, authentication boundaries, API behaviour, supplier pathways and attack paths that could affect citizen data or service continuity.
03How does ThreatCanary support cyber uplift and Essential Eight programs?
ThreatCanary does not replace ASD guidance or Essential Eight maturity work, but it provides evidence about external exposure, exploitable weaknesses, remediation priorities and supplier-facing risk that can support cyber uplift planning and executive reporting.
04How does ThreatCanary handle supplier-hosted government assets?
ThreatCanary helps identify supplier-hosted and partner-operated systems that may sit outside normal agency inventories, then connects those assets to exposure, ownership, evidence and remediation context so agencies can reduce risk across shared delivery environments.