How Detectify empowers governments to manage attack surfaces at scale

TLDR

• Proven at scale: Trusted by government organisations across the UK and EU

• Procurement Ready: Available via G-Cloud with full ISO 27001 compliance.

• Hacker-powered: Intelligence that goes beyond open-source tools to find real-world vulnerabilities.

• Centralized view: A single source of truth for all web-facing assets across decentralized departments.

In the digital age, a government's attack surface is more than just a collection of websites; it is the infrastructure of citizenship. From healthcare portals to tax systems, weather reporting, and educational resources, these domains are the primary interface between the state and its people.

However, securing a government's digital footprint is a task of monumental complexity. With thousands of subdomains, legacy systems, and decentralized agencies, many organizations are left asking a fundamental, yet unsettling question: "Do we actually know everything we own?"

At Detectify, we work with multiple governmental agencies across the UK and Europe to solve this exact problem. Here is how we help governments move from reactive manual scripting to proactive, automated Surface Monitoring.

The visibility gap: "You can't protect what you don't see."

For many governmental customers, the sheer scale of their digital estate is the first hurdle. It is not uncommon for a single agency to manage over 10,000 domains, subdomains, and web-facing applications.

One of our government partners noted during onboarding: "In some cases, organizations don't have a clear, comprehensive view of all their assets."

When assets are decentralized across various departments, "Shadow IT" becomes inevitable. Detectify eliminates this blind spot by providing an automated inventory management tool that replaces cumbersome, manual processes. We don't just find your domains; we help you understand the relationships between them. Detectify also has 600+ methods for subdomain takeovers.

Moving beyond manual scripting

In the wake of critical vulnerabilities like Log4j, many government security teams found themselves in a race against time. Detectify transforms this process by:

• Continuous Scanning: Moving away from "point-in-time" snapshots to a living, breathing view of security.

• In-House Scanners: Unlike tools that simply wrap open-source scanners, Detectify's proprietary engines are built in-house and fueled by the intelligence of a global community of elite ethical hackers.

• Active scanning: We go deep, identifying complex flaws like reflected XSS and automatically discovering hidden API paths and endpoints that traditional scanners miss.

Efficiency for overburdened teams

At Detectify we believe UX is a security feature. By offering 100+ integrations with Jira, Slack and Teams alongside easy filtering, seamless scan setups, and high-accuracy reporting, we ensure that teams spend their time fixing vulnerabilities rather than sorting through noise. Our payload-based testing eliminates false positives with a false positive rate of only 0.03%.

Navigating the complexities of procurement

Security in the public sector requires more than just good code; it requires trust and transparency. Detectify is built to meet the rigorous standards of government procurement, including:

• Compliance & frameworks: Listed on the G-Cloud 15 framework.

• Data sovereignty: Options for data storage within the UK or EU to meet strict residency requirements.

• Certifications: ISO 27001 certified with robust audit logging and encryption protocols.

• Transparency: Detailed documentation on staff screening, change management, and SLAs.

The road ahead: PCI ASV Scanning and compliance

We recognize that for many agencies, ASV (Approved Scanning Vendor) scanning is a non-negotiable requirement for compliance. PCI ASV Scanning is ready, further consolidating your security stack into a single, powerful platform.

A partnership for public safety

Whether it's supporting a Red Team with pre-penetration test reconnaissance or providing continuous monitoring for a decentralized network of agencies, Detectify transforms assumed safety into actionable certainty. By replacing manual effort with hacker-powered automation, we help government agencies to stop worrying about their inventory and start focusing on their mission: serving the public.