Do you know every site your company has?
Besides the website you manage day to day, are sites or test environments built by other departments exposed without the management department knowing? Environments that slipped out of management are also targets that attackers examine.
Do you have a full view of all the sites and networks exposed across your company?
A campaign site built by the sales department. A test environment set up by the development team. Some are published without going through company approval or management procedures.
Even if they are used for business, if the management department does not know they exist, they may be missed by updates and checks.
Read about sites and systems that slip out of managementAn illustrative example of exposed environments. It is not an actual discovery result.
Small and medium-sized businesses are being hit, too.
In the first half of 2026, 123 ransomware incidents were reported to the police. Of these, 79 were at small and medium-sized businesses.
Of the 36 cases with an answer on the infection route, 18 were intrusions via VPN devices. You need to check not only websites but also devices connected to the internet.
Reports of data leaks due to unauthorized access are surging.
In just over half a month, about 2.7 times the entire previous month.
Ransomware damage, first half of 2026
Damage reports
Small and medium-sized businesses
Intrusion via VPN devices
A problem with your site can bring work to a halt.
When weaknesses in an exposed system are exploited, information may be stolen or data may be encrypted.
If systems needed for orders and shipping become unavailable, everyday work stops too. Besides recovery, you may also need to explain the situation to customers and business partners.
Needed information is unavailable
Data cannot be accessed and systems cannot be used.
Daily work stops
Orders, shipping, handling inquiries, and other work are disrupted.
Busy with recovery and explanations
Investigate the cause and explain to customers and business partners while recovery proceeds.
An example of what happens when information needed for business becomes unavailable.
What is risky? What should you fix first?
First, find your internet-facing assets from your domain and check for vulnerability candidates. When problems are found, decide the order of remediation based on severity and business impact.
PentaTrail supports this checking and decision-making, and keeps observing after updates and configuration changes.
Find internet-facing assets
Explore assets starting from your domain and check for known vulnerabilities that may apply.
Decide what to fix first
Review remediation priorities and specific remediation steps based on severity and asset importance.
Remediate with the people involved
Share information internally and with your maintenance provider, and discuss who does what and when.
Check the results of remediation
After updates and configuration changes, check whether vulnerability candidates are no longer detected or are detected again.
Whether a detected candidate affects your environment, and the actual fix, are decided and carried out by your company or your maintenance provider.
See the product screens and reportEven after you check, things change.
You launch a new site. You change a server’s settings. A new vulnerability is published for software you use.
Even if no problems were found when you checked, that may not stay true afterward. A problem you thought you had fixed can reappear with the next update.
Keep checking so you notice these changes and confirm that remediation is complete.
Read about one-time assessments versus ongoing checksFirst check
You see the assets exposed at that point and the vulnerability candidates.
Keep checking
Check for new assets, new problems, and changes after remediation.
An illustration of ongoing checks. It does not guarantee that changes are detected immediately or without omission.