watchTowr on Risky Business: Snake Oilers

Attackers are not waiting for your change window. Ben joined Patrick Gray on Risky Business Media's Snake Oilers to talk about how the world has changed, and what watchTowr is doing about it.

Written by watchTowr Team
· September 18, 2026

In case you missed it: watchTowr’s founder and CEO Benjamin Harris joined Patrick Gray on Risky Business Media’s Snake Oilers.

In the episode, Ben walks Patrick through how exploitation is happening faster than ever before, and what watchTowr is doing to help defend organizations.

LLMs have lowered the bar for exploitation. The target list used to be VPNs, mail servers and management interfaces. Ben explains that it’s now almost anything exposed to the internet.
In-the-wild exploitation can start within 4 hrs of disclosure, and patching can’t match that. Patching isn’t a big red button that teams can just push when they need to immediately fix an issue, especially for large and regulated teams.

What watchTowr Does About It

Proves exploitability. Project Red autonomously reproduces vulnerabilities , so clients act on proven risk, not theoretical severity.
Validates exposure across the real attack surface. Rapid Reaction shows clients exactly where they are exposed as threats emerge.
Reduces exposure while remediation happens. Active Defense applies intelligence-driven mitigations at the edge, buying the time needed to remediate without disrupting the business.

“Teams have more holes in the ship than ever before. If we can help mitigate them, we’re making a difference in actually helping organizations to defend themselves.”
Benjamin Harris, Founder and CEO, watchTowr

See the Full Podcast Below

Learn how the watchTowr Platform helps organizations outpace attackers and gain time to respond.

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.