Detectify Surface Monitoring

Detectify Surface Monitoring continuously tracks internet-facing assets for exposed files, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations. It suits security teams that need broad external-asset visibility and a route from discovery to remediation. Its continuous checks and integrations are compelling, but per-domain and other asset charges sit on top of annual platform fees.

Overview

Surface Monitoring discovers domains, subdomains, IP addresses and ranges, open ports, and running technologies. It is cloud-deployed and supports external and cloud asset discovery, giving teams a way to track an attack surface beyond a single web application. Continuous monitoring is a strong fit for teams whose internet-facing footprint changes; the added asset charges make the cost harder to judge from the platform fee alone.

Key features

Discovery and testing

Thousands of security tests cover issues such as misconfigurations, cross-site scripting (XSS), server-side request forgery (SSRF), and remote code execution (RCE). Authenticated scanning, API testing, and browser-based scanning broaden its coverage. Teams can also define custom rules to flag changes specific to their attack surface.

Actionable findings and integrations

Findings can be filtered and tagged, and include remediation tips, which helps teams sort work rather than treat every alert alike. Integrations include Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, ServiceNow, Splunk, webhooks, GitLab, and GitHub Actions. AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, and GCP connectors help discover assets across external attack surfaces.

Detectify incorporates research from a community of more than 400 ethical hackers and says findings can reach implementation in as little as 15 minutes. That supports a broad test library, though the stated turnaround is not a guarantee for any particular finding. The Trust Center lists an ISO 27001 certificate, an information security policy, a penetration test summary, and GDPR information.

Pricing

The pricing model combines an annual platform fee with an extra charge per domain on every listed plan. Added assets, domains, environments, and IP ranges can also incur extra costs, so the platform fee is only part of the budget.

• Starter: free, billed annually; up to 5 users and 1 team. Surface Monitoring costs extra per domain. Email support is included. This is the free entry point, but it does not remove the domain charge.
• Standard: €2,500 a year, billed annually; up to 10 users and 1 team, with professional support. It raises the user cap and support level over Starter, while still charging extra per domain.
• Professional: €5,000 a year, billed annually; unlimited users and 2 teams, with dedicated customer success support. It suits larger teams that need more seats and a higher-touch relationship, but not unlimited team structure.
• Enterprise: €15,000 a year, billed annually; unlimited users and teams, with dedicated customer success support. It fits organizations needing multiple teams without a stated team cap; domain and other extra-asset charges still apply.

A 14-day trial is offered. Compare plans against expected domain and asset counts as well as team size; otherwise the annual fee can understate the eventual cost.

Platforms

Surface Monitoring is available through web and API platforms. API access and CI/CD integration support workflows that connect scanning with development and operations processes.

Who it's for

Security teams responsible for maintaining visibility across internet-facing assets are the clearest fit, particularly when asset discovery and ongoing monitoring are more useful than manual inventory work. Teams that need bounded, predictable costs across many domains or assets should weigh the variable charges carefully.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Discovery spans domains, IPs, ports, technologies, and cloud-connected assets, helping teams build a wider external view.
• Pro: Continuous checks, custom rules, and remediation tips support ongoing triage rather than one-off scans alone.
• Pro: Broad integrations connect findings to ticketing, messaging, incident response, and CI/CD tools.
• Con: Per-domain and additional asset charges apply across plans, complicating cost estimates as the footprint grows.
• Con: Starter is limited to five users and one team; Standard to ten users and one team. Teams needing broader collaboration must move to higher annual fees.

Alternatives

For a ratings-focused option with a free forever entry point, Cybersecurityratings.com offers one security snapshot, a basic A–F grade, and the top five risk factors on Starter; choose it when that narrower ratings view suits the need better than continuous asset monitoring.

ThreatWatch has a free plan for an organization's own weekly rescans, but excludes breach and dark-web intelligence, OSINT enrichment, deep attack-surface scanning, AI agents, SSO, and API access; consider it for a limited free starting point.

RiskRecon offers 30-day portal access with ratings for up to 50 vendors, an organization report, and risk-prioritized findings; it is the better fit when third-party vendor ratings are the priority.

Scovery is another freemium option.

SecurityScorecard Third-Party Risk Management offers a free-forever plan with a rating for your own domain, digital-footprint management, issue prioritization and alerts, questionnaire response, and self-monitoring; choose it when those third-party risk and domain-rating capabilities fit better.

ThreatNG Security offers a limited-time evaluation with full platform capabilities, making it an option for a time-limited platform evaluation.

Bitdefender Total Security is a different kind of option: its first-year individual plan is $59.99 a year for five devices and one account, across Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. Choose it for device security rather than external attack-surface monitoring.

ImmuniWeb offers a mobile-app scanning subscription at €395 a month per app, with unlimited scans of builds or versions of the same Android or iOS app; it fits teams focused on mobile application scans.

For category browsing, see Security Ratings Software, Dynamic Application Security Testing Software, Attack Surface Management Software, and Web Application Security Scanners.

Verdict

Choose Detectify Surface Monitoring if your security team needs continuous discovery and broad vulnerability checks across internet-facing assets, with findings routed into established workflows. Its strongest reason to buy is the combination of wide discovery, configurable monitoring, and integrations; its strongest reason to look elsewhere is the cost structure, which adds per-domain and other asset charges to substantial annual platform fees.