Groma Patched - Bitsight

If you don’t know it exists, you can’t protect it. Here’s how continuous discovery changes the game.

Your development team spun up a staging server six months ago. It has default credentials and a valid SSL certificate. You don’t have it in your inventory. Groma finds it. It identifies assets by correlating certificates back to your domain naming conventions, even if the IP address doesn’t obviously belong to you.

4 minutes Every CISO knows the nightmare scenario: A forgotten marketing microsite, a rogue development server, or an old test environment left exposed to the public internet becomes the entry point for a major breach. bitsight groma

This is the problem of and orphaned assets —and it’s the single biggest gap in most security programs. Enter Bitsight Groma . What is Bitsight Groma? In short, Groma is an external attack surface discovery engine . Unlike traditional asset management tools that rely on internal CMDBs (which are often outdated or incomplete), Groma looks at your organization from an attacker’s perspective—from the outside in.

It continuously scans the global internet, analyzing DNS data, SSL certificates, response headers, and code repositories to answer one critical question: “What internet-facing assets belong to your organization that you don’t already know about?” The name is deliberate. In land surveying, a groma was a Roman instrument used to lay out straight lines and right angles—to map the unknown. Bitsight Groma does the same for cybersecurity. It maps the chaotic, sprawling expanse of your digital footprint and turns it into a precise, actionable grid. The 3 Problems Groma Solves Most security teams are flying blind. Here’s how Groma provides clarity: If you don’t know it exists, you can’t protect it

Finding the Invisible: How Bitsight Groma Exposes Your Hidden Attack Surface

When you acquire a company, you inherit their security debt. Traditional questionnaires miss 30%+ of an acquired company’s external assets. Groma provides an instant, unbiased inventory of the target’s attack surface before the deal closes, preventing nasty post-merger surprises. It has default credentials and a valid SSL certificate

It gives you the complete, real-time map of your digital territory. And in cybersecurity, you cannot defend what you cannot see. Ready to discover what’s hiding in your digital shadow? [Link to request a demo or Bitsight Groma trial] Author Bio: [Your Name/Team] focuses on External Attack Surface Management (EASM) and helping security teams move from reactive patching to proactive exposure management.