“Active Focus gives us continuous visibility into our external attack surface, while Incident Response ensures we are prepared when something happens. The speed of feedback and the ability to quickly identify real risks make it highly valuable in practice.”
– Espen Knutsen, CISO, Techstep
From Complexity to Control
With a broad portfolio of services and subsidiaries, Techstep operates with a large and evolving attack surface. By adopting Active Focus and Incident Response, they established a combined proactive and reactive security approach with fast time to value and minimal onboarding effort.
The onboarding is experienced as seamless and largely “silent”, requiring little time or resources from internal teams while delivering immediate visibility and value.
Continuous Discovery Across a Large Attack Surface
Active Focus provides continuous visibility into Techstep’s external attack surface, including domains, subdomains, and exposed services.
While Techstep has strong internal security capabilities, the service plays a critical role in actively identifying new risks and exposures as they emerge.
This includes uncovering issues such as subdomain takeover risks, legacy exposures, and weaknesses across a complex landscape of brands and services. Custom reporting further enables focused insight into specific parts of the environment.
By combining automation, AI, and human expertise, findings are identified quickly and continuously, ensuring that real, exploitable risks are surfaced early.
From Findings to Operational Security
A key strength of the collaboration is how findings are operationalized within Techstep.
Identified issues are fed directly into internal workflows, where they are prioritized and resolved efficiently. The organization demonstrates strong ownership, with a clear ability to respond quickly and systematically.
This creates a tight and effective loop from detection to remediation, where new risks are continuously discovered, addressed, and reduced.
Reducing Real-World Risk
The combination of continuous discovery, fast feedback, and effective remediation significantly reduces Techstep’s exposure to real-world attacks.
Instead of relying on periodic assessments, Techstep maintains an always-updated understanding of its attack surface, ensuring that vulnerabilities are identified and handled before they can be exploited.
Together, this proactive and structured approach helps de-risk the organization from being successfully compromised.
Key Takeaways
- Continuous identification of real, exploitable risks across a large attack surface
- Strong internal ownership enables fast and effective remediation
- Findings are integrated into internal workflows, driving continuous improvement
- Fast time to value through seamless, low-effort onboarding
- Combination of automation, AI, and human expertise enables speed and precision
Facts
Techstep is a Norwegian technology company delivering mobile solutions to enterprises, helping organizations procure, manage, and secure devices, subscriptions, and digital work tools
