Agentic Security Profiling
I build AI agents that systematically map your attack surface, identify vulnerabilities in context, and maintain a living picture of your security posture — not a point-in-time snapshot, but continuous, adaptive assessment.
Attack Surface Discovery
Autonomous agents that find what you don't know is exposed.
The first step in any security assessment is knowing what you have. I deploy profiling agents that enumerate your entire digital footprint — external-facing assets, internal services, cloud resources, third-party integrations, and shadow IT. These agents don't just run a single scan; they correlate data across sources, follow connections, and build a comprehensive asset inventory that stays current as your infrastructure changes.
External Attack Surface Mapping
Agents that discover and catalogue every externally reachable asset — domains, subdomains, IP ranges, exposed services, open ports, and public-facing APIs. They use passive reconnaissance, DNS enumeration, certificate transparency logs, and search engine indexing to build a complete picture without triggering your defences.
Cloud Resource Enumeration
Purpose-built agents for cloud environments that inventory storage buckets, compute instances, serverless functions, IAM roles, and network configurations across AWS, Azure, and GCP. They identify publicly accessible resources, overly permissive policies, and orphaned assets that have fallen out of management.
Third-Party & Supply Chain Mapping
Security doesn't end at your perimeter. These agents map your third-party integrations, SaaS dependencies, and supply chain connections — identifying which external services have access to your data, what APIs you depend on, and where a compromise in your supply chain could impact your organisation.
Internal Service Discovery
For authorised internal assessments, agents systematically discover services running across your network — databases, middleware, legacy applications, development environments, and internal APIs. They identify services that should be isolated but aren't, and map lateral movement paths an attacker could exploit.
Contextual Vulnerability Analysis
Findings that matter, prioritised by actual risk — not just CVSS scores.
I build profiling agents that go beyond scanning for known CVEs. They assess each finding in the context of your specific environment — considering network topology, data sensitivity, access controls, and how vulnerabilities chain together. The result is a prioritised list of issues ranked by genuine exploitability and business impact, not generic severity ratings that require hours of triage.
Contextual Vulnerability Scoring
Agents that evaluate each vulnerability against your actual environment. A critical CVE on an isolated test server with no sensitive data gets deprioritised. A medium-severity misconfiguration on a system with database access and internet exposure gets flagged immediately. The agent understands your architecture and scores accordingly.
Exploitability Assessment
Not every vulnerability is practically exploitable. These agents assess whether a finding can actually be leveraged given your specific defences — network segmentation, WAF rules, authentication requirements, and monitoring in place. They distinguish between theoretical risk and genuine exposure.
Vulnerability Chaining Analysis
The most dangerous attack paths often combine multiple low-severity findings. I deploy agents that specifically look for chains — an information disclosure that reveals internal structure, combined with a misconfiguration that allows access, leading to a privilege escalation that reaches sensitive data. Each link is low-risk alone; together they form a critical path.
Dependency & Library Auditing
Agents that continuously monitor your software dependencies, container images, and runtime libraries against vulnerability databases. They track not just direct dependencies but transitive ones, alerting you when a deeply nested library introduces a security issue and recommending specific version upgrades.
Continuous Posture Monitoring
Your attack surface changes daily. Your security assessment should too.
A security profile created today is outdated by next week. I build agents that maintain continuous awareness of your security posture — detecting new assets, configuration drift, emerging vulnerabilities, and changes in your attack surface as they happen. They provide ongoing situational awareness rather than periodic snapshots that are stale before the report is printed.
Configuration Drift Detection
Agents that continuously compare your live configurations against your security baselines and policies. When a firewall rule changes, an IAM policy is modified, or a service configuration drifts from its hardened state, the agent detects it immediately and assesses the security impact of the change.
New Exposure Alerting
When a new subdomain appears, a new service is exposed, or a new cloud resource is provisioned, profiling agents detect it and immediately assess its security posture. No waiting for the next scheduled scan — new exposures are identified and evaluated as they emerge.
Compliance Baseline Monitoring
For organisations subject to regulatory requirements, I build agents that continuously validate compliance with specific frameworks — SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA. They track deviations from required controls and generate evidence documentation for audit preparation.
Security Posture Dashboards
All profiling data feeds into clear, actionable dashboards that show your current security state at a glance — open findings by severity, attack surface trends over time, configuration compliance scores, and remediation progress. These provide the ongoing visibility that point-in-time reports simply cannot.
Ready to map your security posture?
Let's discuss how agentic security profiling can give you continuous visibility into your attack surface.