Use case

Autonomous Vulnerability Mitigation Before the Patch Lands

Overview

In-the-wild exploitation now starts within hours of disclosure, but vulnerability remediation moves at the speed of change control. Patches have to be developed, tested and approved, and legacy systems often cannot be patched quickly at all. That window is where damage occurs.

Active Defense closes that window with autonomous vulnerability mitigation. The moment the watchTowr Platform validates your exposure, mitigation rules reach the WAFs, firewalls, IPS and IDS you already run, without waiting for a patch or a change window.

Autonomous vulnerability mitigation, enabled by the watchTowr Platform

01

Validating Exposure Before Mitigating

AI-Driven Rapid Reaction confirms which of your instances are actually affected and reachable from the internet, so mitigation goes where an attacker could really get in.

02

Rules Built From Real Exploitation

Active Defense rules are derived from exploitation behavior captured by Attacker Eye sensors and the research of watchTowr Labs, so they reflect what attackers are doing in the wild today.

03

Mitigation Pushed to Your Network Edge

Ready-to-use rules reach your WAFs, firewalls, IPS and IDS within hours, reviewed by your team or deployed autonomously, with retesting to confirm they hold.

04

Reducing Exposure, Not Just Filtering It

Active Defense also closes DNS-based exposure, reclaims abandoned cloud assets and recovers abandoned domains, so exposure is reduced rather than filtered.

Key Solution Benefits

Protection Before the Patch

When PHP2Shell leaked, Platform clients were mitigating with Active Defense 24 hours before PHP published patches.

Remediation on Your Schedule

Active Defense does not replace patching. Mitigation runs at the perimeter while remediation runs on the schedule your organization needs.

Coverage When Teams Are Offline

When a Fortinet zero-day was exploited over Easter, Active Defense deployed mitigation wherever autonomous mitigation was configured.

Easy, Zero-Install Deployment

The watchTowr Platform installs nothing, requiring no deployment within your environment and no infrastructure changes.

The watchTowr Platform

What Runs While Remediation Is Planned.

Zero install throughout. Mitigation rules land in the controls you already run, with no appliance to deploy and no operational disruption.

Proactive Threat Intelligence

01 · Preempt

Proactive Threat Intelligence

Know which vulnerabilities attackers will exploit next, and see exploitation the moment it begins.

Attack Surface Visibility and AI-Driven Automated Red Teaming

02 · Validate

Attack Surface Visibility and AI-Driven Automated Red Teaming

Your external footprint as attackers see it, with real-world attacker techniques proving what is exploitable.

Autonomous Mitigation

03 · Mitigate

Autonomous Mitigation

Rules live on your WAF, IDS and IPS while remediation runs.

Deployed in the world's most targeted industries

Technology

Banking

Government

Telecoms

Insurance

Healthcare

Crypto

Transport

Fintech

Manufacturing

Critical Infrastructure

Technology

Banking

Government

Telecoms

Insurance

Healthcare

Crypto

Transport

Fintech

Manufacturing

Critical Infrastructure

Other Use Cases

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Understand the full external surface an attacker had available, during and after an incident.

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See what you are buying before the deal closes.

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React to emerging and in-the-wild threats in hours, not weeks.
Attackers Don't Give Up. Neither Should Your Security Testing.

Zero install. No infrastructure changes. Uplift your security posture within hours of onboarding the watchTowr Platform.

Find Out What an Attacker Can Reach Before They Do.

Point us at a domain. We reconstruct your real external estate and come back with validated exposure, not a theoretical CVE list.

Disclosure to Exploitation Is Four Hours. Patching Is Not.

The watchTowr Platform validates your exposure to an emerging threat and mitigates it at the edge while the vendor patch is still in testing.

We Find the Vulnerabilities. You Hear It From Us First.

watchTowr Labs publishes what is being exploited right now and whether it touches your estate, not vendor summaries written a week late.

Your Exposure Changes Weekly. Annual Testing Cannot Describe It.

Continuous, fully external validation of what an attacker can actually exploit against your estate, at a 0.01% false-positive rate.

See the Estate You Own, Including What No Asset List Holds.

Subsidiaries, forgotten infrastructure, shadow IT. We rebuild your external surface from a single domain, then validate what is exposed.