Other ASM vendors count metadata as if it’s distinct infrastructure – every SSL certificate, DNS wildcard, and open port – flooding your queue with low-signal alerts that eat your analysts’ time that could be better spent responding to real exposure.
Analyzing asset inflation across 1 root domain...
Based on analysis of our customers’ attack surface data, we estimate that 91% of what’s in your ASM platform is noise – created by duplicate or phantom infrastructure. Here’s why:
Your SSL, DNS records, and ports are counted as individual assets. That double counting creates noise and gives analysts more alerts to triage.
No double-counting here. SSL certificates, DNS records, and ports are tracked as metadata under the root domain – not counted separately.
| Asset Type | Other ASM Vendors (Today) | Searchlight Exposure |
|---|---|---|
| ▤ Subdomains | ||
| ▣ SSL Certificates | Domain metadata(not extra assets) | |
| ◫ DNS Records | Domain metadata(not extra assets) | |
| ◉ Open Ports | Domain metadata(not extra assets) | |
| Total to Monitor |
Searchlight Exposure defines assets logically – minimizing noise and wasted analyst time triaging alerts on phantom assets. Every certificate, DNS record, and port is integrated metadata under the parent host – meaning your team doesn’t lose time on findings that were never a real risk.
Searchlight discovers everything across your exposure fabric, including exposures in third-party tools the rest of the market can’t see yet, with the proof of concept attached.
Catch exposures as they happen – Searchlight discovers and validates exposures on your attack surface every hour.
Searchlight’s research team finds zero-days in enterprise software, turning them into a check the platform, often weeks or months before the public disclosure.
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