How SecurityStatus Compares

What Category Are We In?

The security tooling market breaks into three distinct categories. At the enterprise end you have Attack Surface Management platforms — SecurityScorecard, Bitsight, and similar — that score organisations across thousands of signals but charge $20k–$100k/year and require procurement cycles. At the other end are Active Penetration Testing platforms that fire real attack payloads at your app to find exploitable vulnerabilities.

SecurityStatus sits squarely in Passive Security Monitoring — category one. We run continuous, automated, non-intrusive reconnaissance against your domain. Every check we perform is something a legitimate external observer could do: querying DNS records, inspecting HTTP response headers, looking up certificate transparency logs, and checking structured threat intelligence feeds. We never probe or attack.

This distinction matters. Because we never send attack traffic, we can monitor any domain continuously, without permission gates, without legal risk, and without the overhead of a formal pentest engagement. It also means we are not a replacement for a pentest — we're the always-on layer that tells you what's visible before a real attacker looks.