Find and Fix Internal Vulnerabilities with Detectify Scanning
▼ Summary
– Detectify has launched Internal Scanning to eliminate the visibility gap between external and internal networks, allowing vulnerabilities behind the firewall to be found and fixed with the same speed as external assets.
– The solution challenges the outdated assumption that internal networks are safe, as compromised endpoints have made internal-facing applications prime targets.
– It uses a proprietary engine powered by ethical hackers and AI to bring high-velocity, payload-based testing into the private network on a single platform.
– The tool is designed for modern, ephemeral infrastructure with a lightweight agent that deploys in minutes and scales automatically without performance bottlenecks.
– It provides a unified view of the entire attack surface in one interface, eliminating data silos between external and internal security findings.
Security teams often face a significant challenge in protecting their entire digital infrastructure. While external assets receive regular scrutiny, internal networks and applications behind the firewall can be overlooked, creating a dangerous visibility gap. Detectify’s new Internal Scanning solution directly addresses this problem by extending its proven security testing capabilities into private environments. This allows organizations to discover and fix vulnerabilities in internal-facing applications with the same efficiency they apply to their public-facing assets.
For too long, many companies have operated under the assumption that their internal network is a secure sanctuary. This is a risky misconception. In reality, compromised endpoints and lateral movement by attackers have made staging environments, admin panels, and other internal applications prime targets for exploitation. Detectify challenges this outdated notion of safety, providing the tools needed to secure the entire attack surface.
The solution brings the company’s advanced proprietary technology, including its crawling and fuzzing engine, into the private network. This technology is powered by a combination of elite ethical hackers from its Crowdsource community, its Alfred AI, and dedicated internal researchers. The result is a unified platform that consolidates protection for both external perimeters and internal environments, eliminating fragmented security data.
According to Rickard Carlsson, CEO of Detectify, legacy internal scanning tools have not kept pace with modern development practices. “Security teams have had clunky, legacy internal scanning tools for decades, but they weren’t built for today’s ephemeral infrastructure and release speed,” he noted. “We’ve built a modern architecture that brings high-velocity, payload-based testing behind the firewall. It’s finally an internal security solution that works at the speed of the teams using it.”
Designed by DevOps professionals for AppSec teams, Detectify Internal Scanning avoids the bottlenecks typically associated with traditional Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) tools. It emphasizes scalability and engineering efficiency without adding cumbersome overhead. Key benefits for customers include:
Frictionless deployment that takes just minutes. A lightweight Internal Scanning Agent can be instantly deployed using a simple Terraform module. This self-contained package includes all necessary license keys and registry access, offering genuine “plug and play” security.
Unmatched scalability with short-lived triggering. The system eliminates scanning bottlenecks through lightweight agents that activate within build containers and terminate automatically upon job completion. Its cloud-agnostic architecture supports thousands of simultaneous scans and can auto-scale seamlessly, handling anywhere from 10 to 10,000 assets without any loss of performance.
A unified, comprehensive view of the entire attack surface. Security professionals gain a single, filterable interface to review findings from both the external perimeter and internal staging environments. This breaks down data silos and establishes one reliable source of truth for assessing organizational risk.
Ultimately, Internal Scanning equips application security teams with the strategic tools required to manage risk where it matters most: within the internal environments that house an organization’s most sensitive and critical data.
(Source: HelpNet Security)