outsec trace

What's already visible about your business from the outside. A passive, one-off external footprint report — built from public records only. No access to your systems, no credentials, nothing to install.

Why not a free checker
Free tools check a hostname. We find your whole footprint.

DNS, header and TLS checkers are free and plentiful — they'll grade whatever hostname you hand them. What they can't do is discovery and interpretation: mapping your estate from certificate transparency and DNS resolution, then telling you what actually matters versus what isn't yours to fix. On one real engagement, a vendor report claimed 13 IPs; our discovery found 15. Reconciling that gap is the job.

Asset discovery

Subdomains and related assets from certificate transparency, public DNS and public datasets, including dangling CNAMEs pointing at deprovisioned third-party services.

Ownership

WHOIS/RDAP, ASN and IP ownership records — separating what's yours from shared or third-party infrastructure.

Email security

SPF, DMARC and DKIM for recognised providers, plus STARTTLS support.

DNS hygiene

CAA, DNSSEC and reverse DNS consistency.

Certificates

Hostname match, issuer, expiry, validity period, and whether a weak cipher was accepted during the handshake.

Web hardening

HTTPS redirect, HSTS, security headers, cookie flags, and server or technology disclosure.

Exposure

Commonly exposed files and paths, public cloud storage naming, and what's already published on your own site.

Lookalike domains

Registered lookalikes of your domain, and whether any have live mail records.

What this isn't

No port scanning, no active cipher-suite enumeration, no vulnerability scanning or login attempts — nothing requiring access to your systems or authorisation. That's permanent by design, not a coverage gap. And no false comfort: this report says what we observed and what we couldn't verify, never that your perimeter is "clean."

One-off
$990 inc. GST

Delivered as a document you can hand to an insurer, a customer, or a procurement panel.

Quarterly check-ins from $660 inc. once you're in, not sold upfront as a plan.
Who it's for

Built for the business owner or ops manager who wants a clear answer, not another acronym-filled inbox.

Framework-agnostic — the findings aren't tied to Essential Eight, ASD Essentials or SMB1001, so it holds up whichever one you're actually working toward.

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