Shadow IT
Services and applications published outside any formal IT process — provisioned by business areas, product teams or suppliers, without passing through central control.
DISCOVERY ARCHITECTURE
CSURFACE operates specialized Machine Learning models, supervised by an agentic layer that decides on the ownership of each observed object. The result is a deep inventory with minimal technical noise — without agents, starting from the root domain.
THE CHALLENGE
Classical discovery methods rely on expected patterns: common names, declared IP ranges, known lists. They find what follows conventions—but the actual attack surface is also composed of assets that do not follow any pattern at all: temporary environments, discontinued projects, inherited infrastructure from acquisitions, and services published outside any process.
It is precisely in this interval—between what is predictable and what is exposed—that risk outside monitoring concentrates. Expanding discovery beyond the obvious without overwhelming the team with noise is what separates an approximate inventory from a reliable one.
DISCOVERY
Starting from a single point of origin, the platform delivers a complete view of the surface — regardless of distribution and country — identifying each asset with Machine Learning and agentic layer.
MACHINE LEARNING
For each observed asset, multiple independent evidences are reconciled until a decision is substantiated about the asset's ownership and its link to the organization — auditable with every inclusion in the inventory.
Only what withstands reconciliation between evidences reaches the delivered inventory — each inclusion preserves the history that supported the decision.
| Asset | Technology | Evidence | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| portal.exemplo.com.br new | Nginx · WordPress | root domain + crawl | 0.98 ML CLAIMED |
| api.exemplo-net.com | Kong · Node.js | TLS certificate + DNS | 1.00 AUTO CLAIMED |
| hml-legado.exemplo.com.br new | Apache · PHP 7.2 | subdomain + registration | 0.96 ML CLAIMED |
| cdn.marca-exemplo.com | Cloudflare | page reference + TLS | 0.99 ML CLAIMED |
| vpn.exemplo.com.br | Fortinet | root domain + DNS | 1.00 AUTO CLAIMED |
BLIND SPOTS
A large part of the real exposure lives outside known lists: assets published outside formal IT processes, environments that no one shut down, old technology without a clear owner. Discovery incorporates these assets into the inventory with the same property ownership decision.
Services and applications published outside any formal IT process — provisioned by business areas, product teams or suppliers, without passing through central control.
Assets created for a specific purpose and never shut down — validations, proof of concepts, and test environments that remain exposed long after their function is fulfilled.
Old systems still in operation, often without a defined owner and maintenance — the asset category where exposure tends to linger unnoticed for the longest.
Integrations and services exposed by suppliers in the organization's name, which expand the surface without appearing in any internal inventory.
It is precisely in this interval — between the predictable and the exposed — where risk outside monitoring concentrates. Each of these assets enters the inventory with the evidence that supports the property ownership decision.
CAMADA AGÊNTICA
A camada agêntica é o supervisor dos modelos. Ela analisa os dados enriquecidos e classificados, resolve conflitos entre sinais e decide sobre o nível de propriedade de cada objeto — substituindo horas de triagem manual por uma decisão fundamentada e auditável, antes de o alerta chegar à equipe.
O agente não rotula com base em um único modelo: ele integra a saída de todos os modelos, pesa evidências e justifica a decisão de propriedade — cada inclusão no inventário é rastreável.
Quando sinais convergentes apontam num sentido e divergentes em outro, o agente reconcilia: descarta o que é ruído, retém o que é informação, registra a decisão.
A camada agêntica filtra o ruído antes de o alerta chegar à equipe. O cliente recebe inventário pronto para uso — não trabalho de triagem.
A consequência operacional é direta: as equipes operam sobre um inventário confiável desde a primeira entrega, sem triar achados que não pertencem à organização. O tempo até a primeira ação relevante é medido em minutos.
HOW IT WORKS
Starting from the root domain, each asset is evaluated through multiple evidences until a grounded and auditable ownership decision is made.
The agentic layer makes decisions on the ownership of each observed object, reconciles conflicting signals, and justifies inclusion in the inventory.
The surface is continuously re-evaluated. New assets and relevant changes enter the inventory with alerts — without accumulated noise.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
A single model concentrates heterogeneous decisions — collection, correlation, classification, enrichment, and validation — into a single function. Specialized models by type of decision increase the reliability of each inclusion and maintain auditable decisions at every step.
Decision-making. Models produce classified and enriched signals; the agentic layer integrates them, resolves conflicts between convergent and divergent evidence, decides on the level of ownership, and justifies inclusions. Instead of human teams performing this triage, it happens before delivery — replacing hours of manual work with a data-driven decision.
No. Discovery is entirely external and part of the root domain of the organization. There are no agents to install nor inventories to provide — the platform operates autonomously.
Optionally, CSURFACE integrates with cloud environments, WAFs, CIEMs, and other sources for enrichment — integrations that expand context but are not necessary for discovery to function.
An asset only enters the inventory after being assigned to the organization by correlation of multiple independent signals and validated by the agentic layer. Convergent and divergent signals are reconciled before delivery — the ownership decision is already substantiated when it reaches the dashboard.
No. It is an enhancement of ASM: the discovery layer that makes inventories more complete and reliable. Both capabilities operate together, over the same live inventory.
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