New Features and Improvements - September 2022

9 September 2022

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Lauren Palmer

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FractalScan Surface has been updated!

We are continuously adding new features and improvements to FractalScan Surface. Here’s a summary of what has been added over the last 2 months:

The scan dashboard has been replaced with the new and improved scan overview page.

You can now contact us inside the app. Want help with your scan or spot a problem? Get in touch easily.

Need help button on FractalScan's dashboard

We’ve been updating our remediation wording to be more helpful when reviewing a risk.

Remediation advice on FractalScan's platform

You now have more control over domains hosted on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), making it easier to hide risks linked to IPs managed by a third-party.

Manage CDNs section on the FractalScan platform

Didn’t mean to delete your scan? No problem, you can now restore scans.
The frontend hasn’t been getting all the attention, we’ve been working hard on detecting more components and their versions, including drupal, squarespace, cloudflare and many more.

List of components stating no risks on the FractalScan dashboard

We’ve had feedback the score was confusing, so the score has been flipped on its head and renamed to Health. Now, 5 means your system is healthy and 1 means we think you can do some things to manage your risk better. Who doesn’t love aiming for the top score?

Health score graph on FractalScan's dashboard

Coming soon….

We’ve got lots of amazing ideas but here is what we are working on now and will be available soon:

Generating reports with our new reporting tool. You will be able to generate different types of reports, add a custom executive summary and get an email when it is ready for you to download.

Receive notifications when your scan has completed, so you don’t have to sit and wait for it to finish. If you have continuous scanning, you can get emails when FractalScan Surface has detected a change.

We’re updating the FractalScan Surface homepage to get an overview of each scan without having to click into it. This will make it easier to manage multiple scans and allow users to do a high-level comparison and summary of each scan (perfect for lead generation campaigns).

Keep an eye out on our future blogs as we continue to update FractalScan Surface, we will be producing lots more release notes.

If you would like to try FractalScan Surface for yourself, why not create a free account (no credit card required).

Got an idea for a future update, or have spotted a bug? Get in touch with our support team.

About Lauren Palmer

Lauren is a Software Engineer with 5 years of experience problem solving and developing solutions for customers. Her skill set ranges from digital signal processing to web development. At Red Maple Lauren has been focused on the development of products to protect companies from cyber threats.

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REVIEWS

What our customers think

Ken Shannon

Haas Automation

"FractalScan Surface is an impressive tool that we use to monitor our external cyber risks and those of our dealers worldwide. We've even used it to perform due diligence security checks on third-party suppliers. I appreciate the easy-to-understand summary views, and my team likes that the daily scans automatically reflect their ongoing risk mitigation efforts. I'd really encourage other companies to use this tool and start tracking their cyber risks."

Robin Craib

VTS

"FractalScan's capability to mark domains hosted on shared cloud services gives us the ability to remove risks associated with IP addresses which are not part of our infrastructure, allowing us to focus our resources. The consultancy we've had from the professional services team at Red Maple Technologies confirms the credibility and background of the team building FractalScan. I'm excited to see what's coming next for FractalScan."

CIO

Formula 1

"FractalScan Surface has been great for discovering our online-visible assets and exposures, allowing us to make some immediate improvements to reduce our cyber risk." Daily scanning enables us to keep on top of our external attack surface, which is particularly important to us since we have complex digital content output. FractalScan gives us the view on our data we didn't have."

Andy K.

Financial Services

"Simplicity - give it a domain and it will find out what it can about subdomains, related domains and any issues it identifies with them. We may not be privy to sites or subdomains other parts of the business may implement. FractalScan gives us a discovery tool to identify previously unknown public infrastructure, we can reduce our external attack surface by identifying and resolving issues and getting "old" public infrastructure decommissioned."

Tim N.

Information Technology and Services

"What I appreciate the most about FractalScan is the level of accuracy this platform provides while maintaining a passive approach to data collection. As someone who works in technical sales and consulting, I have a lot of clients working with products in this space. The common problem is the overwhelming amount of results and the operational overhead required to make those results actionable. FractalScan's unique solution provides results that are immediately accurate and actionable."

Jason C.

Financial Services

"FractalScan Surface provides a compact and concise overview of vulnerabilities that have been identified on our assets. It is important for teams to be able to understand the issue, prioritise remediation activities and focus on removing vulnerabilities from our estate....this tool enables all of this and has proven to find vulnerabilities that other tools do not."

Jack S.

Information Technology and Services

"FractalScan Surface delivers an exceptional experience, principally by enhancing our understanding of customers' digital assets. The platform's intuitive interface facilitates a user-friendly experience that our team appreciates. This, in turn, allows us to proactively identify vulnerabilities and address them before they escalate. We've found the platform to be markedly superior to its market counterparts in terms of capability and efficiency. Integration into our existing business processes was seamless, minimising any potential operational interruptions."