Evidence first
Scantide shows the technical signals behind each finding instead of only showing a red, yellow or green status.
Scantide security visibility
External attack surface assessment without a stack of separate tools
Your public servers, DNS records, mail infrastructure and exposed services tell a story. Scantide helps you read it before attackers, auditors or customers do — and before you pay for several overlapping tools.
See what your company exposes online
Most companies have more internet-facing exposure than they think. Old servers, forgotten subdomains, weak mail records, missing security headers, expired certificates, exposed services and unclear hosting locations can all increase risk.
A consultant can investigate this manually, but the first step is usually the same: collect evidence, structure the findings and decide what needs attention. Scantide gives IT teams that first visibility layer on demand.
Useful before consulting
Run the first visibility review yourself, then bring in expert help where validation or remediation requires it.
Built for reporting
Findings are structured so they can be shared with management, IT, suppliers or consultants.
Security visibility before the consultancy bill
A traditional assessment is valuable, especially for validation and remediation. But many companies first need a basic answer: what do we expose, where is it hosted, and what evidence supports the risk? Scantide helps answer that before committing to a larger engagement.
The same logic applies to tooling. To reproduce the same type of external exposure, SSL/TLS, DNS, mail posture, CVE context, reporting and internal visibility workflow, teams often end up combining several commercial tools or maintaining a free DIY stack.
Lower tool sprawl
One Scantide report can reduce switching between SSL checkers, DNS tools, CVE searches, browser checks and spreadsheets.
Cleaner handoff
Reports are easier to hand to IT operations, suppliers, management or an external consultant.
Realistic scope
Scantide provides visibility and evidence. It does not pretend to replace deep authenticated enterprise vulnerability management in every scenario.
What Scantide helps check
These checks are presented as visibility and risk indicators. They help you understand what deserves validation, remediation or deeper expert review.
Public server posture
- HTTPS and redirect behavior
- SSL/TLS certificate status
- Certificate issuer and expiration
- HTTP security headers
- Server header evidence
DNS and mail exposure
- Nameservers and DNS records
- MX records
- SPF and DMARC
- DNSSEC indicators
- Mail infrastructure location
Risk indicators
- Open ports and service banners
- Product/version indicators
- CVE indicators where matched
- Hosting jurisdiction
- GDPR and Cloud Act context
Real-world example reports, anonymized
These examples are based on real Scantide output. Customer names, domains, IP addresses and other identifying details have been removed or replaced so the reports can be shared safely.
External server report →
A real-world Scantide Online report with domains, IP addresses and customer identifiers anonymized.
Internal network survey →
A real-world Scantide Auditor report showing internal discovery evidence with sensitive data removed.
Local device report →
An anonymized report of a local PC scan
Useful for
Scantide is strongest when a team needs quick, repeatable visibility before a larger audit, consulting project or remediation sprint.
Pre-audit preparation
Gather evidence before a supplier review, customer audit, cyber insurance questionnaire or NIS2 readiness discussion.
MSP customer reviews
Create repeatable reports across customer environments without rebuilding the same checks manually.
Inherited infrastructure
Quickly document public systems after migrations, acquisitions or internal handovers.
Related security visibility topics
This page is written for teams researching external attack surface assessment and related infrastructure risk checks.
external attack surface management
exposed server scan
public server security report
internet-facing asset discovery
attack surface report
external security assessment
public infrastructure risk
security assessment cost comparison
free DIY security tools
SSL DNS CVE reporting tool
Questions teams usually ask
Is this a penetration test?
No. Scantide is positioned as security visibility and evidence reporting. It helps identify exposure and indicators that may deserve deeper validation.
Can I use the report with a consultant?
Yes. The report is useful before consulting work because it shows what was found and gives the consultant a stronger starting point.
Can free tools replace Scantide?
For a skilled technician, free tools can reproduce parts of the workflow. The tradeoff is manual correlation, false-positive handling, reporting, anonymization and maintenance. Scantide is meant to reduce that repeated work.
Does Scantide replace enterprise vulnerability management?
No. It is better described as broad visibility, reconnaissance and evidence reporting. Deep authenticated vulnerability management, remediation tracking and formal penetration testing can still be needed.
Start with one server or scan your full public footprint
Use Scantide to generate external security visibility reports for public-facing servers, domains and infrastructure — without building a tool stack first.