Threat Exposure Management

What threat exposure management means

Threat exposure is anything an attacker can find about your organisation without breaking in. Four concrete examples:

- A leaked credential in an infostealer log. An employee's laptop was hit by malware on a personal device. Their saved Microsoft 365 password, session cookies, and autofill data now sit in a log file traded on a Telegram channel. The attacker does not need to phish them. They log in. - A lookalike domain registered yesterday. Someone registered 'secdes-k.com' at 03:14 and issued an SSL certificate for it within the hour. The next step is a fake invoice to your finance controller. - A GitHub commit with a live API key. A developer pushed a branch to a personal repo for a weekend side project. The commit contains a production AWS key that is still valid. - A ransomware group listing your customer as a victim. Your largest customer appears on a leak site countdown timer. Their breach is now your supply chain problem, and you need to know before the news does.

Threat exposure management is the discipline of seeing all of that, within minutes of it appearing, and acting on it.

What our managed platform watches

Our TEM service runs continuous collection across the public internet and the places attackers stage their work.

- External attack surface. Every domain, subdomain, IP, and exposed service tied to your organisation. New assets that appear without IT knowing. Certificate transparency logs that reveal shadow infrastructure. - Dark web and criminal forums. Russian, English, and Chinese-language forums, paste sites, Telegram channels, and marketplaces where initial access brokers sell VPN credentials, RDP access, and mailbox cookies. - Infostealer logs. A category on its own. Lumma, RedLine, Vidar, StealC, and the others dump millions of credential sets per week. We match those logs against your domains, your employees' work email, and their personal addresses where they overlap. - Domain impersonation. Newly registered lookalikes, typosquats, homograph domains, and fraudulent SSL certificates issued for your brand. - Code and secret leaks. GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, paste sites, and public S3 buckets scanned for API keys, database credentials, and source code tagged with your organisation. - Brand and VIP monitoring. Mentions of your company, board members, and executives in threat actor chatter, doxxing posts, and leak site listings.

That is the sensor layer. The value sits in what happens next.

Customisable by design

You configure as much or as little as you want. Three dials:

Notification channels. Route alerts through email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, SMS, phone call, webhook, or straight into Jira, ServiceNow, or any ticketing system you run. Different channels for different people.

Routing rules. Severity tiers map to channels. A new credential leak for a standard user might open a Jira ticket tagged for your IT team. A leak on a privileged admin account wakes the SOC lead by phone. A ransomware group posting your company name on a leak site pages the CISO and the incident response team at once. You set the rules, we tune them.

Response automation. Choose the level that fits your risk tolerance, per exposure type:

- Monitor only. We alert, you decide. - Human in the loop. We propose an action, you approve, we execute. - Pre-authorised automation. We execute pre-agreed playbooks and report after.

Instant account isolation is a common automation. When leaked credentials for an employee's account surface in an infostealer log or criminal forum post, the platform can trigger an automated response within minutes: revoke all active sessions and refresh tokens, force a password reset, optionally disable the account, and notify the SOC through the channel you chose. You decide whether that runs automatically, runs with a one-tap human approval, or stays as an alert only. It is configurable per user group, per severity, per time of day.

How we triage and respond

This is not a dashboard you log into on Friday afternoon. Raw TEM data is loud. A mid-sized Dutch organisation can generate hundreds of matches per week, and most of them are not real signal. Old breaches, duplicate records, employees who reused a personal password on a site that got breached in 2019.

Our senior responders handle the filtering. We cross-reference new credential leaks against your authentication logs to see if the password is still valid. We check whether a lookalike domain is parked or weaponised. We verify whether a leaked API key is live or already rotated.

When something is real, it reaches you through the channel you chose, with context: what was exposed, how it was found, what it means, what we recommend, and what we have already done if pre-authorised automation was configured. You do not chase alerts. You approve decisions or read summaries.

Monthly review calls cover trends, tuning, and new exposure types that emerged. Quarterly reports summarise your exposure posture for the board.

Who this is for

Our TEM service fits Dutch mid-market organisations from around 100 employees upward, especially in finance, healthcare, legal services, logistics, and organisations that supply the Dutch government. Continuous monitoring has real return on investment once the attack surface is big enough that you cannot track it manually and valuable enough that attackers are staging against it.

If you are smaller than that, basic hygiene on passwords, MFA, and patching carries you further than monitoring does. Do not buy TEM instead of fixing the fundamentals.

TEM is a prevention posture. It sits alongside our incident response service, not inside it. Incident response runs when the attacker is already in. TEM runs so the attacker is detected before that point, or so you have hours of lead time when they break through. Organisations that have already lived through one incident usually add TEM within six months. The second incident is the one that breaks budgets.

Frequently asked questions

Six common questions before you start.