External Cyber Risk Intelligence

See your organization the way an attacker already does.

A confidential advisory that maps your externally visible cyber exposure — passively, before it becomes an incident.

Principle 01 Passive by default No intrusive testing, login attempts, or exploitation without written authorization and defined scope.
Principle 02 Written for the boardroom Findings are mapped to business impact, severity, and the next decision a leader needs to make.
Principle 03 Discretion as a discipline Evidence is redacted by default. Nothing is published. Nothing leaves the engagement file.
Services

Three engagements, designed to earn trust first.

A confidential briefing first. Deeper work begins only when you authorize it.

Engagement 01

External Attack Surface Review

A passive review of what your organization shows the public internet — from outside your network, using public sources only.

  • Public infrastructure and exposure mapping
  • Email authentication and brand trust posture
  • Visible authentication and admin surfaces
  • Technology fingerprinting and version signals
Engagement 02

Executive Risk Preview

A sanitized briefing for leadership. Each finding is paired with business impact, severity, and a recommended next step — no exploit detail, no fear marketing.

  • Plain-language risk categorization
  • Severity estimate with method noted
  • Redacted evidence excerpts
  • Clear recommended next action
Engagement 03

Authorized Security Assessment

From observation to validation — under written scope and defined rules of engagement, with confidential remediation guidance.

  • Written authorization and scope of work
  • Prioritized findings with severity rationale
  • Confidential remediation plan
  • Technical debrief with named owners
The Threat Environment

Autonomous tooling has changed what “low risk” means.

Public-facing organizations are now mapped, profiled, and probed by autonomous AI agents that work without supervision. The cost of reconnaissance has collapsed. The window between an exposure being visible and an exposure being used has shortened from weeks to hours.

i.

Continuous reconnaissance

Public infrastructure is now indexed, fingerprinted, and re-checked by automated agents on a near-daily basis. A change in posture is noticed within hours, by parties you cannot see.

ii.

Personalized social engineering

Phishing, voice cloning, and executive impersonation can be generated at scale, against named staff, in your leadership’s own register. The cost per attempt is now effectively zero.

iii.

Compressed response window

A finding that would have aged in obscurity for weeks now circulates in hours. Discovery, decision, and response time has become the differentiator between a quiet remediation and a public incident.

PraetorShield operates the same class of tools — under written permission, for your benefit, and with discretion as a discipline. We use what attackers use, the way a professional firm should.

Our Approach

A calm, lawful way to open the security conversation.

Cold cyber outreach damages reputations when it sounds threatening. We do the opposite — a confidential briefing first; validation only with your written authorization.

  1. i.

    Observe

    Public sources only. No probing of internal systems. No exploitation.

  2. ii.

    Brief

    A sanitized executive preview: risk category, business impact, severity, redacted evidence.

  3. iii.

    Authorize

    Written scope, rules of engagement, and named contacts before deeper work begins.

  4. iv.

    Resolve

    Confirmed findings paired with a confidential remediation plan. Nothing is published.

Reports

Built to be read by a board, not a hacker forum.

Enough evidence to act — without generating documents you wouldn’t want subpoenaed.

Open Sample Report
External Risk Preview
Confidential
Overall Severity Estimate High
Risk Category
Business Impact
Evidence Type
Industries we work with
Financial Services
Professional Services
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Technology
Public Sector
Ethics & Disclosure

Responsible disclosure is not a feature. It’s the brand.

We do not test without permission, publish findings, or use disclosure as leverage. Confidential by default, end to end.

Redacted Evidence Written Scope No Public Pressure Lawful Sources Clear Next Step
Start Here

See your exposure live, before you commit to anything.

Run it on your own domain, in your own browser. Nothing intrusive, nothing stored. The plan we’d recommend follows the preview — not the other way around.

Run a Free Risk Preview

Passive · lawful · no exploit detail · ~90 seconds.

Frequently Asked

The questions executives actually ask.

Is what you do legal?

Yes. We use only public signals — the same sources available to anyone on the internet. Intrusive testing requires written authorization and defined scope.

Will anything you find become public?

No. Findings are confidential by default. We do not publish client information, comment on engagements, or use findings for marketing.

How is this different from a penetration test?

A pentest is authorized, deep, and invasive. Our preview is passive and external — a safe way to open the conversation before deeper work is commissioned.

What does the first preview cost?

The first preview is delivered as a courtesy, and contains no exploit detail. Validation, assessment, and monitoring are quoted in writing.

Who is the typical PraetorShield client?

Mid-market and enterprise leaders — CEO, COO, CFO, GC, or CISO — of organizations where a public incident would be materially damaging.

How quickly can you produce a first preview?

Within five business days. Urgent requests are accommodated where capacity allows.

Request a Review

Begin with a confidential briefing.

We respond within one business day — with next steps, an NDA if helpful, and a delivery timeline.

Direct line security@praetorshield.com
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Press & disclosure No press inquiries are accepted on active engagements.

Submitting this form opens a prepared email to our secure intake. We do not perform any testing on your systems before written authorization and defined scope.