Solution Brief
Enterprise IT

Passive Attack Surface Intelligence for Enterprise Networks

WireTrace discovers every device on your network and maps the real attack surface — cleartext credentials, expired certificates, exposed management interfaces, shadow IT, and unmanaged endpoints — by analyzing observed traffic passively. Security teams gain continuous visibility into what is actually happening on the wire, without agents, active scanning, or cloud dependency.

The Challenge

Shadow IT and Unmanaged Devices

Personal devices, rogue access points, unauthorized servers, and forgotten IoT endpoints connect to corporate networks without IT awareness. Active scanners only discover what they know to look for — and miss everything between scan cycles.

TLS Certificates Expiring Without Warning

Expired, self-signed, and weak TLS certificates expose organizations to interception attacks and service outages. Without continuous monitoring, certificate problems surface only when something breaks in production.

The Real Attack Surface Is Invisible

Cleartext credentials traversing the wire, exposed management interfaces accepting connections, unencrypted database traffic, and legacy protocols still in active use — none of this appears in vulnerability scan reports or CMDB inventories.

Changes Happen Faster Than IT Can Track

New devices, new services, new SaaS applications, and configuration changes happen continuously. Manual CMDB updates fall behind within days. Without passive observation, the asset inventory is always out of date.

How WireTrace Solves It

Continuous Passive Asset Discovery

Every device that communicates on the network is discovered and classified automatically — servers, workstations, printers, phones, IoT devices, smart TVs, and building systems identified by OS, vendor, model, and function from observed traffic patterns alone.

TLS Certificate Intelligence

Every TLS certificate observed on the network is cataloged: subject, issuer, validity dates, key strength, and chain integrity. Self-signed certificates, certificates approaching expiry, and weak cipher negotiations are flagged continuously — not during periodic audits.

Attack Surface from the Wire

Cleartext credentials in HTTP, FTP, SMTP, and Telnet sessions detected in real time. Exposed management interfaces, unencrypted database connections, and legacy protocols identified and risk-scored based on actual observed exposure.

Physical Infrastructure Mapping

LLDP and CDP protocol parsing identifies exactly which switch port each device connects to. Correlate logical network identity with physical infrastructure location for rapid incident response and accurate topology mapping.

Enterprise Protocol Intelligence

TLS HTTP/S DNS DHCP LLDP CDP SNMP SSH RDP SMB LDAP Kerberos RADIUS NTP FTP SMTP SSDP mDNS QUIC WireGuard OpenVPN PostgreSQL MySQL Telnet and more+

Representative examples. WireTrace supports 250+ protocol parsers across enterprise, industrial, medical, and IoT communications, with continuous expansion.

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Solution Brief — Enterprise IT

Key Capabilities

Security Insights

Automated security findings generated from observed traffic. Cleartext credentials, weak TLS configurations, self-signed certificates, exposed admin interfaces, unencrypted database connections, and legacy protocols surfaced continuously — without manual investigation.

Threat & Exposure Scoring

Every asset receives a risk score based on real observed exposure: active vulnerabilities, cleartext protocols, certificate issues, open management services, and behavioral deviations. Remediation prioritized by what is actually exposed, not by theoretical severity.

Network Change Detection

Every change on the network is tracked from observed traffic: new devices, removed devices, new services, configuration changes, new communication patterns. A complete audit trail of what changed, when, and how — without relying on manual CMDB updates.

IoT & Smart Device Discovery

SSDP, mDNS, and UPnP parsing discovers smart TVs, wireless printers, VoIP phones, smart speakers, and consumer IoT devices that traditional IT tools miss. Know exactly what unmanaged devices are communicating on your corporate network.

Compliance & Governance

WireTrace generates continuous compliance evidence from observed network traffic. Asset inventories, access control validation, encryption posture, and change management documentation are always current — replacing stale snapshots from periodic audits with continuously updated, traffic-derived proof.

ISO 27001

Asset management (A.8), access control (A.9), cryptography (A.10), communications security (A.13), and operations security (A.12) evidence generated continuously.

NCA ECC

Saudi Essential Cybersecurity Controls. Continuous monitoring, asset management, and network security evidence for regulated organizations.

CIS Controls

Enterprise asset inventory (CIS 1), software assets (CIS 2), data protection (CIS 3), and network monitoring (CIS 13) evidence from observed traffic.

Deployment

A single WireTrace sensor on a SPAN port or TAP captures all enterprise network traffic in a segment. No agents on endpoints, no active scanning, no cloud dependency. Multiple sensors cover campus, data center, and branch office segments with centralized analytics. Fully air-gap deployable. First assets discovered and classified in under 30 seconds.

See Your Real Attack Surface

Request a proof-of-value deployment. Cleartext credentials, expired certificates, exposed interfaces, and shadow IT — found passively without sending a single packet.   wiretrace.io  |  sales@wiretrace.io

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