watchTowr

watchTowr is redefining External Attack Surface Management with its Continuous Automated Red Teaming platform, built by offensive security experts and backed by real-world vulnerability research. Critical infrastructure and Fortune 500 companies globally trust watchTowr to continuously validate and strengthen their security postures. If there’s a way to compromise an organization, the watchTowr Platform will find it.

https://watchtowr.com

11-50 employees

Growth Trajectory

watchTowr is poised for growth through strategic partnerships, market expansion in APAC, ANZ, and Europe, and continuous product development focused on EASM and CART technologies. They're expanding their leadership and teams while leveraging recent Series A funding to solidify their global presence and innovate in vulnerability research and exploit detection.

Technical Challenges

Maintaining real-time visibility of attack surfaces amidst growing IT infrastructure, SaaS, and cloud usage.

Rapidly reacting to emerging cyber threats given the short time between vulnerability announcement and exploitation.

Continuously improving and enhancing tactics and techniques to stay ahead of evolving attacker strategies.

Integrating with diverse security stacks and IT environments.

Tech Stack

WordPressElementorWordfenceLeadfeederHotjarIntercom MessengerHubSpotGoogle AnalyticsCloudFlareGoogle FontsWP EngineComplianzwatchTowr Platform

Team Size

watchTowr Labs (vulnerability research)

Go-to-market teams

Research and Engineering teams

Leadership team (Gregory Lingris, Alice Collins)

Key Risks

Rapid weaponization of emerging vulnerabilities poses a constant threat, requiring continuous adaptation and improvement of their platform.

Limited visibility of attack surfaces due to growing IT infrastructure, SaaS, cloud usage, and shadow IT could hinder the effectiveness of their external attack surface management.

Maintaining a competitive edge in the evolving cybersecurity landscape requires continuous innovation in threat detection and prevention techniques.

Talent acquisition in the specialized areas of offensive security and vulnerability research may present challenges as they scale.

Opportunities

Expanding partnerships with MSSPs and cyber insurance firms to broaden market reach and service offerings.

Leveraging AI advancements to enhance exploit detection and automate vulnerability validation.

Extending the watchTowr platform to address adjacent security domains such as cloud security and IoT security.

Developing integrations with leading security tools and platforms to create a more seamless and comprehensive security ecosystem.

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