Connecting Your External Attack Surface to Your Full Exposure Picture
Security teams have no shortage of findings. The real challenge is knowing which exposures matter most and ensuring they get remediated quickly.
That's why we're excited to announce our integration with Brinqa, a leading AI-powered exposure management platform. Together, Halo Security and Brinqa give organizations a clearer way to discover external exposures and then prioritize and remediate the risks that matter most.
External attack surface management (EASM) gives security teams visibility into the internet-facing assets that traditional scanners often miss. While that visibility is valuable on its own, many organizations also want to consolidate it with the rest of their security data, so external findings get prioritized and remediated alongside everything else the program tracks.
Some teams organize this work under continuous threat exposure management (CTEM), a framework introduced by Gartner that describes how security teams discover, prioritize, validate, and remediate exposures across the enterprise as one continuous process. In that model, external attack surface data is one important input among several.
Halo gives security teams continuous visibility into the external attack surface. Brinqa connects that visibility to the broader exposure management workflow, where findings can be contextualized, prioritized, owned, and fixed. The integration helps shorten the path between discovery and action.
The External Attack Surface Is Bigger Than Most Teams Realize
Every enterprise has an external attack surface. Domains, subdomains, IP addresses, cloud-hosted applications, APIs, third-party services, subsidiary infrastructure. All of it is visible to anyone with an internet connection and the right tools. Attackers enumerate it continuously. Most security teams do not.
Size isn't the only challenge. The external attack surface is dynamic. New assets appear all the time. Development teams spin them up, M&A brings them in, cloud migrations inherit them. They don't always make it into the asset inventory before they become exposure points. Misconfigured cloud services, forgotten subdomains, expired certificates, open ports. These aren't exotic attack vectors. They're the everyday reality of running a large, distributed enterprise.
Halo Security was built to give security teams continuous visibility into exactly this terrain. The platform automatically discovers internet-facing assets and identifies risks that go beyond the traditional CVE list, including:
- Vulnerabilities and security weaknesses
- Open ports and exposed services
- Misconfigurations
- Subdomain takeover opportunities
- Expiring TLS certificates
- Domains for sale or abandoned assets
- Exposed technologies and applications
Halo surfaces what attackers see when they look at your organization from the outside, and it does it continuously with daily updates so the picture stays current. The next step many teams want is a way to put that visibility in context.
Adding Context to External Findings
Security teams work with data from a lot of sources. One of the harder parts is looking at a given finding and deciding how much it matters relative to everything else on the list.
Context helps with that. An exposed subdomain running an outdated web framework matters very differently depending on whether it hosts a customer-facing application, an internal staging environment, or a long-forgotten internal tool. A misconfigured cloud service means one thing next to assets that hold sensitive data and something else in an isolated test environment. Context shapes priority, and priority tends to shape what gets fixed first.
This is one of the areas where Brinqa helps. Brinqa is an AI-powered exposure management platform built to ingest, correlate, and contextualize security findings from across the enterprise. When Halo Security data flows into Brinqa, external attack surface findings can be combined with everything else Brinqa knows: internal vulnerability scan data, asset criticality, business context, ownership mapping, and risk scoring. The result is a fuller picture of where your real exposure sits.
What the Integration Looks Like in Practice
The integration is straightforward to stand up. Brinqa ingests external attack surface findings directly from Halo's platform, including:
- Discovered assets and hosts
- Vulnerability findings
- Security assessments
- Asset metadata and exposure information
These findings flow into the Brinqa CyberRisk Graph, where they get correlated with data from across the organization's security ecosystem.
From there, Brinqa combines Halo's external visibility with context such as internal vulnerability scan results, asset criticality, business context, ownership information, and existing risk models. An external vulnerability discovered by Halo on an internet-facing asset gets evaluated alongside everything else Brinqa knows about that asset. Risk scores get calculated. Ownership gets assigned. Security teams get a prioritized, actionable view of their external exposure.
For organizations using Halo's continuous discovery, the external attack surface stays current inside Brinqa too. When new assets appear in Halo's inventory, those findings flow into Brinqa and get assessed in context. Teams aren't chasing a moving target with a static snapshot.
How External Data Fits a Broader Exposure Program
For organizations building out a CTEM program, external attack surface visibility is a natural fit. CTEM emphasizes continuous discovery, validation, prioritization, and remediation across the full attack surface, and it can work well when internal and external exposures share the same context and workflow. Since attackers don't draw a line between the two, some teams find it simpler to manage them together.
That's the architecture Brinqa is built around. With more than 240 integrations, Brinqa aggregates security data from across the enterprise: scanners, cloud platforms, ticketing systems, asset management tools. Halo Security focuses on scanning the external perimeter, so internet-facing assets. As Halo discovers and assesses new assets, those findings can flow continuously into Brinqa's risk analysis, helping teams keep an up-to-date view of their exposure.
The Goal Is Faster Remediation, Not More Dashboards
For most teams, the aim isn't another place to look. It's fewer decisions to make on their own about what matters and what to do next.
The Halo Security and Brinqa integration is built around that goal. Halo finds what's exposed on your external attack surface. Brinqa contextualizes it, prioritizes it against everything else competing for remediation resources, maps ownership, and drives the workflow that gets it fixed. Together, our platforms help security teams:
- Continuously discover external assets and exposures
- Correlate findings with business and risk context
- Prioritize remediation efforts more effectively
- Assign ownership and track remediation progress
- Reduce the time between discovery and resolution
The handoff between discovery and action gets shorter. The gap between finding and fixing gets smaller.
Learn More
The Halo Security connector is now available within Brinqa's integration ecosystem. To see how it works, read Brinqa's connector documentation or schedule a demo with our friendly team to see how continuous external attack surface monitoring can strengthen your exposure management program.