Sweepatic

Main service(s)

Sweepatic is a product company which provides an “External Attack Surface Management” (EASM) platform. Sweepatic helps organisations discover, map and monitor their external digital assets and the possible associated security issues.

Security challenges due to an expanding digital landscape

One of the cornerstones of any security program is an up-to-date overview of all the digital assets. After all: if you don’t know something exists, how can you secure it?

While an up-to-date asset registry is critical to security, maintaining it and keeping the information correct and complete is anything but simple. Anyone who has had to use or maintain such a registry can attest to that.

In recent years, the situation has become even worse, as the complexity of the IT landscape has exploded while defensive capabilities have not grown at the same rate. Consider the following factors:

• Growing Digital Footprint: As organizations adopt new technologies, their digital footprint—websites, APIs, cloud services, IoT devices—rapidly expands. This surge in publicly accessible assets, especially those outside centralized IT control (shadow IT), is hard to track and secure.
• Dynamic and Distributed Assets: Digital assets are spread across various cloud environments, third-party platforms, and remote locations. This constant change makes it challenging to maintain visibility and secure every exposed asset, as new vulnerabilities arise with changing configurations and the addition of unprotected assets.
• Resource Constraints: Many organizations struggle with limited cybersecurity resources, both in terms of personnel and technology.

The combination of the above factors leads to a situation where there might be unknown or poorly maintained digital assets directly accessible on the public internet, which - stating the obvious here - is not a desirable situation.

Securing the expanding digital landscape

EASM tools were developed to help security organisations discover and track these high-risk assets. Sweepatic was one of the first solutions in the category. In fact: while Gartner defined EASM in 2021, Sweepatic was already founded in 2016.

Because Sweepatic was so early, it has spent more time thinking and working on the challenges in EASM than many competitors. This time advantage translates into a very mature and robust solution, both in a technical and non-technical sense. (See the key differentiators section below for additional information).

Typical Sweepatic customers consist of large organisations over a wide range of industries. Sweepatic maintains a list of references here.

In June 2023, Outpost24 acquired Sweepatic. The acquisition makes a lot of sense, as Sweepatic’s “outside in” approach nicely complements the “inside out” approach of the other Outpost24 services.

Key Differentiators

Product maturity and complexity

As mentioned above, Sweepatic was founded in 2016 and focused on (what Gartner coined in 2021 as) EASM from the start. Because Sweepatic was so early, it has spent more time thinking and working on the challenges in EASM than many competitors.

This time advantage translates into a very mature and robust solution, both in a technical and non-technical sense. Here are some examples:

• Sweepatic scans daily, discovering and tracking customer assets. This leads directly to a low mean time to detection (MTTD).
• The Sweepatic user interface is deliberately kept simple, which means users can be onboarded quickly and don’t necessarily have to be security experts.
• Resolving issues is the most difficult and time-consuming part of security. Sweepatic has built integrations with various alerting or work management providers. This allows customers to use their existing processes and make sure the right action items get to the right people.

Outpost 24 synergy

In June 2023, Outpost 24 acquired Sweepatic. The acquisition makes a lot of sense, as Sweepatic’s “outside in” approach nicely complements the “inside out” approach of the other Outpost24 services.

The Outpost 24 acquisition allows Sweepatic to bring more value to customers and sell broader bundles (as opposed to being a pure play solution). Think for example about threat intelligence (detecting if leaked or stolen credentials exist for discovered email addresses) and pentesting-as-a-service (for newly discovered assets).

Finally, Sweepatic is an important building block for the Outpost 24 “continuous threat exposure management” (CTEM) strategy. The idea is that organisations should focus on surfacing and actively prioritize what most threatens the business (as opposed to patching everything).

Outpost 24 launched its CTEM offering (called “The Outpost24 Exposure Management Platform”) in June 2024.

Future plans and direction

Sweepatic is currently focusing on fully integrating the platform in Outpost 24 and creating additional product offerings with complementary services within Outpost 24.

Company history

Sweepatic publishes a company history on its website here.