Detectify Surface Monitoring

Detectify Surface Monitoring is a cloud service for continuously discovering and checking internet-facing assets. It is best suited to security teams responsible for a changing external footprint. Its discovery, testing, and workflow coverage are substantial, but domain and asset charges make the annual platform fee only part of the cost.

Overview

The service maps domains, subdomains, IP addresses and ranges, open ports, and running technologies, then monitors for exposed files, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations. Continuous checks are useful when internet-facing assets change often; this is broader than a scanner aimed at a single application. That breadth also makes the extra charges for domains, assets, environments, and IP ranges important to budget for.

Key features

Discovery and testing

Thousands of security tests cover misconfigurations, cross-site scripting (XSS), server-side request forgery (SSRF), and remote code execution (RCE). Authenticated scanning, API testing, and browser-based scanning broaden the targets teams can assess. Custom policies let teams monitor for changes specific to their attack surface, a useful counterpoint to relying only on a fixed set of checks.

Triage and workflow

Findings can be filtered and tagged and include remediation tips, giving teams tools to sort and act on results. Integrations include Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, ServiceNow, Splunk, webhooks, GitLab, and GitHub Actions. These connections can route findings into issue tracking, communication, and development workflows rather than leaving them in a separate console.

Cloud discovery and research

Connectors for AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, and GCP help discover assets across an external attack surface. Detectify also incorporates research from a community of more than 400 ethical hackers and says findings can reach implementation in as little as 15 minutes. Its Trust Center lists an ISO 27001 certificate, an information security policy, a penetration test summary, and GDPR information.

Pricing

Detectify lists a 14-day trial and a free plan, but Surface Monitoring costs extra per domain on every plan. The pricing page also notes added costs for assets, domains, environments, and IP ranges, so the platform fee alone does not establish the total monitoring cost.

Starter: free, billed annually for the platform; up to 5 users and 1 team. Surface Monitoring costs extra per domain. Email support makes this the entry point for a small team willing to pay separately for monitoring scope.

Standard: €2,500 a year, billed annually; up to 10 users and 1 team, with professional support. It raises the user allowance and support level over Starter, while retaining the same per-domain charge.

Professional: €5,000 a year, billed annually; unlimited users, 2 teams, and dedicated customer success support. It fits larger groups that need more seats and team structure, but does not remove domain or added-asset costs.

Enterprise: €15,000 a year, billed annually; unlimited users and teams, with dedicated customer success support. It is the tier for organizations that need unrestricted team capacity, though monitoring costs remain additional.

The annual platform fees make seat and team allowances clear, but the per-domain and asset charges mean buyers should account for their monitored footprint when comparing tiers.

Platforms

Surface Monitoring is cloud-deployed and supports API and web access. Its capabilities include continuous monitoring, external and cloud asset discovery, API access, authenticated scanning, API testing, browser-based scanning, and CI/CD integration.

Who it's for

This is aimed at security teams that need ongoing visibility into internet-facing assets and want to spend effort on remediation rather than manual discovery. Teams with a broad, changing footprint can use its discovery and workflow options together; organizations with only a narrow application-scanning need may find the external-asset scope and associated charges unnecessary.

Pros and cons

Pro: Discovery spans domains, subdomains, IPs, ports, and technologies, making it useful for keeping an external inventory current.

Pro: Thousands of tests, custom policies, and triage tools combine broad checks with ways to focus on specific changes and remediation.

Pro: A wide set of ticketing, chat, alerting, logging, and CI/CD integrations can connect findings to existing work.

Con: Per-domain charges apply on all plans, with further possible costs for assets, environments, and IP ranges; platform fees do not give a complete cost.

Con: Starter is limited to five users and one team, while Standard allows ten users and one team; organizations needing broader collaboration must move to higher annual platform fees.

Alternatives

For a different security focus, consider Security Ratings Software, Dynamic Application Security Testing Software, Web Application Security Scanners, or Attack Surface Management Software.

Bitdefender Total Security is a paid option with a free plan and trial for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows; its listed Total Security Individual price is $59.99 a year for five devices and one account.

Cybersecurityratings.com is a freemium API and web service; its free Starter tier provides one security snapshot, a basic A–F grade, top five risk factors, and a limited ratings database.

Ivanti Neurons for Zero Trust Access is an alternative for teams evaluating zero-trust access software.

ThreatWatch offers a free web tier with weekly rescans for an organization's own footprint, while excluding breach or dark-web intelligence, OSINT enrichment, deep attack-surface scans, AI agents, SSO, and API access.

CrowdStrike Falcon Surface is another paid surface-management option, with pricing not stated and a demo offered.

RiskRecon offers 30-day portal access at no cost for security ratings on up to 50 vendors, plus a report on an organization and risk-prioritized findings.

SecurityScorecard Third-Party Risk Management has a free-forever tier for rating an organization's own domain, managing its digital footprint, prioritizing issues, and receiving alerts.

Rapid7 Surface Command is a paid alternative covering asset discovery and internal and external attack-surface visibility, with pricing not stated.

Verdict

Choose Detectify Surface Monitoring if your security team needs continuous discovery across a changing internet-facing footprint and wants findings routed into operational workflows. Its strongest case is the combination of broad discovery, testing, and integrations; its clearest reason to look elsewhere is the uncertain total once per-domain and other asset charges are added, especially for organizations that need only focused application scanning.