Detectify Surface Monitoring

Detectify Surface Monitoring is a cloud service that maps and checks internet-facing assets continuously. It is best for security teams responsible for a changing external footprint and for turning discovery into remediation. The main qualification is cost: domain and other asset charges are added to the annual platform fee.

Overview

Surface Monitoring finds domains, subdomains, IP addresses, IP ranges, open ports and running technologies, then monitors those assets for exposed files, vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. External and cloud discovery, including AWS, Azure, Cloudflare and GCP connectors, gives teams a broader view than a single application scanner. Continuous checks are useful when new hosts and services appear regularly; organizations with a small, stable scope may find the wider attack-surface model unnecessary.

The service is cloud-deployed and provides API access. Detectify was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Its Trust Center lists ISO 27001 certification, an information security policy, a penetration-test summary and GDPR information.

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 extend coverage across different target types. This combination suits teams that need recurring external assessment rather than occasional checks of one web application.

Rules, triage and remediation

Custom policies let teams watch for changes that matter to their own attack surface. Findings can be filtered and tagged and include remediation tips, helping analysts turn a large inventory into prioritized work. Research from a community of more than 400 ethical hackers feeds the product, and Detectify says findings can reach implementation in as little as 15 minutes; that is a useful promise for teams that value quickly updated detection.

Workflow connections

Integrations cover Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, ServiceNow, Splunk, webhooks, GitLab and GitHub Actions. CI/CD integration and API access support automated workflows, while the range of ticketing, messaging and on-call destinations can reduce handoffs between security and operations.

Pricing

Surface Monitoring starts at €90/mo with a 14-day trial. A free plan is offered, but the platform tiers describe Surface Monitoring as an extra per-domain charge. The pricing page also notes additional costs for added assets, domains, environments and IP ranges, so the monitored footprint—not just the platform tier—determines the total bill.

Plan	Annual platform fee	Included account limits and support	Surface Monitoring
Starter	free, billed annually	Up to 5 users, 1 team, email support	Extra per domain
Standard	€2,500 a year, billed annually	Up to 10 users, 1 team, professional support	Extra per domain
Professional	€5,000 a year, billed annually	Unlimited users, 2 teams, dedicated customer success support	Extra per domain
Enterprise	€15,000 a year, billed annually	Unlimited users and teams, dedicated customer success support	Extra per domain

Starter is the entry point for a small team willing to pay separately for each monitored domain. Standard adds professional support and a larger user allowance. Professional is better for multiple groups that need unlimited users, while Enterprise is aimed at organizations requiring unlimited teams. None of these platform fees removes the per-domain or other asset charges, which makes a precise budget essential.

Platforms

Surface Monitoring runs on the web and exposes an API. Its cloud deployment, cloud connectors, authenticated scanning, API testing, browser-based scanning and CI/CD integration support centralized security operations without a self-hosted installation.

Who it's for

Choose it when a security team must maintain visibility across internet-facing domains, cloud assets and changing infrastructure, and needs findings routed into existing engineering or incident-response tools. Continuous monitoring and custom policies are particularly relevant to organizations with frequent external changes. It is less suitable when the requirement is a narrowly scoped scanner or when per-domain and expanding asset charges cannot be forecast.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Broad discovery covers domains, network ranges, ports and technologies, not only known applications.
• Pro: Continuous testing, authenticated/API/browser scanning and thousands of checks support varied external environments.
• Pro: Filtering, tagging, remediation guidance and extensive integrations connect detection to operational work.
• Con: Per-domain pricing applies on every plan, with further charges for assets, environments and IP ranges.
• Con: The no-fee Starter platform tier is limited to five users and one team and still does not include Surface Monitoring domains.

Alternatives

For security ratings and external-risk snapshots rather than continuous asset monitoring, consider Cybersecurityratings.com, which has a free tier with one snapshot, an A–F grade and five risk factors. ThreatWatch is a web-based freemium option when weekly rescans are enough and breach, dark-web, deep attack-surface, AI-agent, SSO and API features are not required.

Pick Bitdefender Total Security instead for endpoint protection across Android, iOS, macOS and Windows, including a five-device individual plan. Ivanti Neurons for Zero Trust Access is the alternative for named-user zero-trust access delivered as SaaS across a broad platform range.

RiskRecon suits vendor and organization security ratings, with a free 30-day portal option covering up to 50 vendors and risk-prioritized findings. Scovery is another freemium web option. SecurityScorecard Third-Party Risk Management is preferable for third-party questionnaires, ratings and digital-footprint management. ThreatNG Security offers a limited-time evaluation of its complete platform.

Category comparisons are available in Security Ratings Software, Dynamic Application Security Testing Software, Web Application Security Scanners and Attack Surface Management Software.

Verdict

Detectify Surface Monitoring is a strong choice for security teams that need continuous discovery, broad vulnerability checks and actionable workflows across internet-facing assets. Its breadth, cloud connectors and integrations are the main reasons to choose it. Look elsewhere if your scope is small or your budget requires a simple, all-in price, because per-domain and additional asset charges can materially change the cost beyond the platform fee.