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Explore how ThreatCanary applies continuous attack-path validation to common security problems.

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What this covers

Start with the security question your current tools cannot answer.

Choose the outcome you need to prove, then follow the discovery, context and controlled validation required to reach a defensible verdict.

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Prove real exposure

Determine whether a weakness is reachable and exploitable in the target environment.
Validate the required hops from an external foothold to data, identity or operational impact.
Work backwards from a crown jewel to the smallest control change that breaks the path.

02

Find what changed or escaped governance

Discover unknown internet-facing systems with reviewable attribution evidence.
Reconcile observed APIs with specifications, gateways, repositories and ownership records.
Detect routes, services and controls that drifted, survived retirement or were never documented.

03

Test target-specific abuse

Model identity, objects, state and sequence to test application business logic.
Turn emerging global research into explicit, governed vulnerability hypotheses.
Adapt the next test to observed behaviour instead of stopping at a static plugin result.

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Act on the verdict

Prioritise remediation by demonstrated path and business consequence.
Give engineers reproducible proof and a deterministic retest.
Give leaders a concise exposure narrative that remains linked to the technical evidence.

Use-case directory

Start with the security question you need answered.

Validate real exposure

Prove whether weaknesses are reachable, exploitable and connected to meaningful impact.

Attack Path Validation

Reconstruct and validate realistic routes from external exposure to business impact.

Exploitability Validation

Replace theoretical severity with controlled evidence that a weakness can be used.

Beyond Vulnerability Scanning

Move beyond predefined checks into target-aware offensive validation.

Crown Jewel Protection

Work backwards from critical systems and data to the paths that could reach them.

Sensitive Data Exposure

Validate whether exposed services and APIs can reveal regulated or valuable data.

Discover change and hidden surface

Continuously identify the assets, APIs and behavioural drift that static inventories miss.

External Attack Surface Discovery

Map the systems and services visible to an external attacker.

Shadow Asset Discovery

Find forgotten, unmanaged and supplier-hosted assets outside normal governance.

API Attack Surface

Understand exposed APIs, trust boundaries, identities and data flows.

API Drift Detection

Identify changes between documented expectations and deployed API behaviour.

Shadow & Zombie API Detection

Find undocumented endpoints and retired interfaces that remain reachable.

Operate and prioritise

Turn validated evidence into research, remediation and reporting decisions.

Business Logic Testing

Test workflows for abuse that signatures and schema checks cannot describe.

Novel Vulnerability Hypothesis Research

Turn emerging research and target context into testable security hypotheses.

Remediation Prioritisation

Rank work by reachable impact and supporting proof rather than severity alone.

Board-Ready Security Reporting

Explain validated risk, business consequence and remediation progress clearly.

See the operating model

Move from exposed assets to evidence-backed action.

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