Exposed Services & Attack Surface
Any system reachable from the internet — websites, client portals, admin panels, open ports — that together make up your firm's public attack surface.
What Exposed Services is
Your firm's attack surface is the set of systems and services reachable from the internet. That includes your website, client portal, mail servers, and any administrative or management interfaces exposed publicly.
It also includes things you may have forgotten about: a legacy server, a staging site, a subdomain pointing at infrastructure you no longer control, or a service running on a port that doesn't need to be open.
You can't protect what you don't know is there. Mapping exposed services is the foundation of understanding your public-facing footprint.
Why Exposed Services matters for your firm
Every internet-facing service is a potential entry point. The larger and less understood your attack surface, the more places there are for a weakness to go unnoticed.
Administrative interfaces reachable from the public internet are a common and high-value target. Many don't need to be exposed at all.
Services running outdated or unsupported software are a frequent source of exposure — and often the easiest to address once identified.
What we look at
- Internet-facing services associated with your domain and known infrastructure.
- Administrative or management interfaces reachable from the public internet.
- Services running software behind the current supported release.
- Endpoints accepting outdated or deprecated transport protocols.
This review uses publicly available information and does not log into private systems or access private client records. Any deeper testing that requires authorization only takes place after you authorize it and the scope is agreed upon.
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See how Exposed Services applies to your firm.
The RingWarden Professional Security Assessment reviews exposed services and the rest of your public-facing digital infrastructure, then delivers a clear written report.
One-time payment. Professional written report. Delivered within 3 business days of confirmed payment, subject to the necessary assessment scope and access arrangements.