Cosmos Attack Surface Management
Stay Ahead of Perimeter Threats
Cosmos Attack Surface Management (CASM) combines advanced attack surface technology with expert-driven testing to help you remediate business-impacting exposures and strengthen resilience against an ever-changing spectrum of perimeter threats.
Minimize the window of exploitability
The average critical vulnerability is exposed for 74 days. That's plenty for attackers to take advantage.
Keeping an up-to-date inventory of externally-facing assets becomes more difficult as businesses evolve rapidly. With new vulnerabilities appearing daily, this situation provides an ideal scenario for attackers. Although automated attack surface monitoring tools have made strides in closing the gap, they often overwhelm security teams with excessive results and false positives, making it easy to miss critical vulnerabilities amid the flood of alerts.
reveal the vulnerabilities that count
Modern Attack Surfaces Demand More Than Automation
CASM lays the foundation for proactive perimeter protection with a fully managed service that merges attack surface management with expert-driven testing to uncover the threats that matter.
See everything. Miss nothing.
Take the advantage away from adversaries. Discover your attack surface before they do.
Covers the Complete Spectrum of Perimeter Assets
Leverages a domain-centric approach that reveals your entire digital footprint including subdomains, networks, cloud, applications, third-party infrastructure, and more.
Maintains An Up-to-Date View of the Attack Surface
Provides an updated inventory of perimeter assets by regularly updating your attack surface's representation, utilizing a combination of publicly accessible data and proprietary discovery techniques.
Validates Ownership of Assets
Leverages a specialized team with expertise in attack surface reconnaissance to meticulously verify asset ownership, ensuring that you receive an authentic and comprehensive representation of your perimeter.
Illuminate highly coveted exposures
Not all vulnerabilities have the same appeal. We zero in on the ones most prized by attackers.
Finds the Exposures Attackers Target
Covers a comprehensive number of exposure categories that real-world adversaries target including exposed services, misconfigurations, vulnerable software, credential reuse, information disclosures, subdomain takeovers, and more.
Diligently Monitors for New Perimeter Risks
Leverages an advanced reconnaissance engine and unique discovery methods to strategically scan for new vulnerabilities, responding promptly to emerging threats and shifts across the attack surface.
Remains A Step Ahead of Developing Threats
Keeps discovery capabilities on the cutting-edge with new analyzers that identify actively exploited issues, newly released CVEs, and less traditionally severe vulnerabilities that are often missed.
Act only on validated threats
The last thing you need is more noise. That's why we verify the exploitability of every threat.
Eliminates Burdensome Triage Processes
Inspects all scanning results on your behalf eliminating noise, false positives, and duplicative findings before assigning exposure leads for verification testing.
Verifies Exploitability With Expert-Driven Testing
Leverages an in-house team of highly-skilled testers, including experts from the NSA, DoD, and renowned bug bounty hunters, committed to continuously evaluating your perimeter's security and confirming vulnerability exploitability.
Emulates the Ingenuity of Real-world Threats
Uses the same publicly available toolsets as the bad guys — plus proprietary methods and novel exploits developed over two decades of conducting offensive security engagements.
Eliminate Exposures Before Exploitation
In the race against attackers, time decides the victor. We keep you a step ahead.
Prioritizes Action Were It's Needed Most
Delivers a curated list of verified vulnerabilities, accompanied by actionable guidance and detailed evidence of exploitation, to streamline and prioritize remediation efforts on threats with the potential to cause significant business impact.
Amplifies Your Security Team's Capabilities
Offers your security personnel encrypted, direct communication with our expert testers for query resolution, further validation, and to perform testing on newly identified targets or areas of interest as needed.
Eliminates the Uncertainty of Successful Remediation
Conducts on-demand retesting of vulnerabilities to confirm complete resolution of all susceptible attack vectors.
Centralizes All Findings and Asset Details
Offers a unified dashboard featuring attack surface details, impact assessments of findings, historical trends, success measures, and a ranked list of issues by severity—highlighting the most critical and high-risk vulnerabilities.
Discover an Award-Winning Difference
Cosmos a "Fast Mover" in 2025 GigaOm ASM Radar
In its assessment of the top Attack Surface Management providers, GigaOm once again named Bishop Fox a Fast Mover and Innovator for its Cosmos solution.
"The Cosmos platform offers a unique combination of automated security testing and human validation through its adversarial operations team. The solution provides initial exploitation verification, authenticated testing via the Cosmos application penetration testing add-on, and post-exploitation impact assessment with unlimited retesting capabilities.”Cosmos earned scores of "Superior" to "Exceptional" across the following Business Criteria evaluated by the analyst firm — including Flexibility, Scalability, Cost and Licensing, and Ease of Use. Read the report to learn more.
Our Difference. Your Outcomes
CASM cuts through the noise focusing you only on business impacting exposures.
Uncover the full scope of your attack surface
CASM leaves no stone unturned discovering every potential target across your perimeter, including the assets you don’t know about.
Maintain an accurate view of perimeter assets
CASM delivers peace of mind that your evolving digital footprint is accounted for with always-on asset detection and ownership verification.
Reveal the exposures attackers specifically target
CASM illuminates the opportunistic vulnerabilities attackers covet including those often overlooked stepping stones used in more complex attack chains.
Outpace attackers to rapidly emerging threats
CASM proactively addresses time-sensitive, highly exploitable threats preventing attackers from capitalizing on susceptible assets.
Focus on exposures that are confirmed to be exploitable
CASM prioritizes corrective action on exposures that are verified to be exploitable and business-impacting under real-world attack conditions.
Minimize the window of attacker opportunity
CASM shrinks the timeframe adversaries have to exploit exposures with actionable guidance, access to testing experts, and on-demand retesting.
Eliminate the firehose of false positives
CASM shoulders the burden of triage throughout the exposure management process saving your team precious time and resources for other priorities.
Equifax Embraces Continuous Testing
With operations across the globe and services that play an essential role in the global economy, Equifax was seeking a way to map and track changes to thousands of domains and subdomains. Find out how Bishop Fox expanded attack surface visibility and strengthened perimeter defenses against emerging threats.
Shaun Marion
Chief Information Security Officer at Republic Services
We knew we needed something beyond just another scanning solution. [Cosmos] offered us attack surface discovery. The service showed us about the things we weren't even aware of. We didn't have to provide a list of IP addresses to scan; to the contrary, they discovered our attack surface for us and began scanning immediately.
Related Resources
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John Deere Digital Security Journey: Securing Products Against Cyberattacks
To help ensure John Deere products are ready to withstand security threats, John Deere chooses Bishop Fox's Cosmos platform and product security reviews.
Ponemon Institute Report 2023
In a new study conducted with Bishop Fox, the Ponemon Institute surveyed nearly 700 security and IT practitioners who actively employ offensive security practices. The analysis explores where enterprises are focusing offensive security efforts and the drivers behind them.
Cosmos Datasheet
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Are you ready? Start defending forward.
Are you ready to uncover your digital footprint and get a real-time, attacker’s view of your perimeter? Request a demo to see Cosmos Attack Surface Management in action.