See More, Act Faster: ZeroFox EASM Screenshot Enrichment

Security teams are overwhelmed by data. Every discovery scan generates hundreds of IP addresses, domain names, and port listings—but which ones are critical? A single subdomain could host anything from a static brochure site to an exposed database, yet traditional External Attack Surface Management (EASM) tools often treat them the same, lacking the context needed for proactive threat defense.

This data overload creates a dangerous blind spot. When your EASM platform flags a newly discovered web service, analysts face critical questions:

• Is this a customer-facing application requiring immediate action?
• An abandoned development environment with default credentials?
• Or a redirect page posing minimal risk?

Without visual context, security teams waste time manually investigating findings, introducing delays that leave critical vulnerabilities exposed.

Without visual context, security teams waste time manually investigating findings, introducing delays that leave vulnerabilities exposed. Industry research shows that organizations leveraging continuous attack surface monitoring with context-rich intelligence reduce their mean time to respond (MTTR) to critical vulnerabilities by up to 40%. Visual intelligence is the key to achieving proactive threat defense, transforming raw scan data into actionable insights that enable rapid, informed decisions.

Introducing Screenshot Enrichment in ZeroFox EASM

ZeroFox EASM’s new Screenshot Enrichment feature automatically captures visual snapshots of web-accessible assets and integrates them directly into the platform. This powerful enhancement eliminates guesswork from asset evaluation, delivering immediate visual clarity that accelerates response, enhances prioritization, and strengthens proactive threat defense across your attack surface.

Core Capabilities

• Automated Visual Capture: Responsive web assets are automatically screenshotted by ZeroFox’s distributed scanning infrastructure during both discovery and monitoring cycles, ensuring up-to-date visibility across your external attack surface.
• Seamless Platform Integration: Screenshots are natively embedded within asset and vulnerability detail cards—no need for manual browsing or external tools.
• Universal Accessibility: A consistent visual experience across desktop and mobile platforms supports distributed teams and field-based analysts.
• Enterprise-Scale Processing: Built on cloud-native architecture, this feature supports high-volume screenshot capture without compromising scan speed or data freshness.
• Smart Visual Indicators: Screenshot icons highlight assets with available screenshots in list views, enabling faster triage and prioritization.

Critical Security Use Cases

Screenshot Enrichment addresses the most pressing challenges in external attack surface management, empowering proactive threat defense in real-world scenarios:

1. Exposed Administrative Interface Detection
   • The Challenge: A financial services firm identifies mgmt-console.subsidiary.bank.com via monitoring. Metadata shows only an HTTPS service running NGINX.
   • The Reality: Manual validation could take 15–30 minutes, time during which a critical exposure could be exploited.
   • The Visual Advantage: Screenshot Enrichment immediately reveals an unprotected admin console with default login credentials. Analysts escalate and remediate within minutes, not hours.
   • Security Outcome: A potential data breach is prevented—an example of true proactive threat defense in action.
2. Shadow IT Discovery and Risk Assessment
   • The Scenario: A retail company’s certificate transparency monitoring flags a new IP. The asset isn’t in the known inventory.
   • Traditional Response: Lack of context leads to slow investigation, delaying risk validation.
   • Screenshot Solution: Visual confirmation reveals an outdated development site running an exposed CMS with visible debugging interfaces.
   • Security Impact: The asset is quarantined and patched before attackers can exploit it, advancing proactive security posture management.
3. Brand Protection and Phishing Detection
   • The Discovery: Threat intelligence surfaces a suspicious domain: secure-patient-portal-healthsystem.com.
   • The Investigation: Screenshot Enrichment instantly reveals a phishing site impersonating a healthcare org’s patient portal, with credential harvesting forms.
   • The Response: Security teams submit takedown requests and issue public threat alerts based on irrefutable visual evidence.
   • Business Outcome: Customer trust protected. Brand damage averted. Another win for proactive threat defense.

Quantifiable Security Benefits

Screenshot Enrichment delivers measurable improvements to security operations, enabling proactive threat defense

• Accelerated Response Times: Visual context reduces individual asset analysis from minutes to seconds, enabling faster identification of critical exposures across large attack surfaces.
• Precision Risk Prioritization: Security teams can instantly distinguish between high-risk assets (exposed admin panels, data repositories, login portals) and low-risk infrastructure (marketing sites, error pages, redirects).
• Investigation Efficiency Gains: Analysts redirect time from manual reconnaissance activities toward strategic threat hunting, vulnerability research, and proactive security improvements.
• Enhanced Compliance Documentation: Visual evidence provides comprehensive audit trails supporting due diligence requirements under SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and sector-specific regulatory frameworks.
• False Positive Reduction: Visual confirmation eliminates noise from automated scanning systems, allowing security teams to focus resources on genuine security issues.

The ZeroFox Attack Surface Intelligence Advantage

Implementing a comprehensive external attack surface discovery and management strategy, leveraging advanced methods, can significantly reduce the risk of overlooking valuable digital assets. 

The ZeroFox external cybersecurity platform combines the power of AI, full-spectrum intelligence services, and takedown and incident response capabilities. Our EASM solution adds powerful continuous discovery, identification, and inventory capabilities to protect your expanding attack surface, enabling proactive threat defense through:

• Discovering and inventorying digital assets
• Visualizing external digital risk from a single view
• Analyzing and prioritizing exposures and vulnerabilities
• Combating asset sprawl and shadow IT
• Reducing the risk of phishing and social engineering attacks
• Adhering to regulatory compliance requirements

Conclusion

The gap between discovery and understanding is a critical challenge in external attack surface management. Screenshot Enrichment bridges that gap, transforming static metadata into actionable visual intelligence that drives faster, more accurate security decisions and enables proactive threat defense.

Stop operating blind to what your external assets contain. Screenshot Enrichment reveals what attackers see the moment they discover your infrastructure, enabling immediate threat assessment, precise risk prioritization, and proactive threat defense strategies that keep you ahead of emerging threats.

Ready to See Your Attack Surface Clearly?

Experience the power of visual intelligence in external attack surface management. ZeroFox EASM with Screenshot Enrichment transforms how security teams discover, assess, and protect their digital infrastructure.

Schedule a demo today to see how Screenshot Enrichment can reduce your vulnerability response time by up to 40%, eliminate blind spots in your external attack surface, turn overwhelming asset data into clear actionable insights, and strengthen your proactive threat defense capabilities.