watchTowr Platform
An AI-assisted platform for preemptive exposure management that discovers, validates and helps mitigate an organisation's external exposure before attackers use it.
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watchTowr Australia: authorised partner for preemptive exposure management
watchTowr continuously maps what you expose to the internet and tests it as an attacker would, to show which weaknesses are exploitable. TOM SHAW is an authorised watchTowr partner that supplies, implements, integrates and supports watchTowr across Australia.
Preemptive exposure management
What watchTowr does
watchTowr continuously maps what an organisation exposes to the internet and then tests it the way a real attacker would, so teams see only the weaknesses that are actually exploitable. When a new vulnerability is published it rechecks the external estate quickly, and it can push temporary mitigations to existing edge controls while permanent fixes are made.
- Continuous discovery of internet-facing assets, including shadow IT and forgotten systems
- Automated red teaming that proves exploitability before reporting
- Rapid re-testing of the external estate when new threats emerge
- Temporary mitigation pushed to existing WAFs, firewalls and IPS
- Validated findings with reproduction steps rather than raw scan output
- Prioritisation of vulnerabilities likely to be exploited in the wild, informed by honeypots built to resemble edge devices
- In-house vulnerability research through watchTowr Labs
More about the platform on the watchTowr website.
watchTowr products we supply and implement
Attack Surface Visibility (Adversary Sight)
External attack surface management (EASM): continuous reconnaissance that finds and attributes internet-facing assets, including subsidiaries, brands, acquired entities, unknown SaaS, cloud, shadow IT and abandoned systems.
Automated Red Teaming
Tests discovered assets using real attacker techniques for initial access, such as exploiting known vulnerabilities, web flaws, weak credentials, cloud and DNS issues, and confirms what is exploitable.
Active Defense
Applies interim mitigation rules to existing edge controls such as WAFs and IPS, and can reclaim abandoned cloud assets and domains, while permanent remediation proceeds.
AI-Driven Rapid Reaction
When a new threat or vulnerability emerges, re-tests the external estate and returns a validated list of affected assets instead of a generic CVE alert.
watchTowr Intel
Threat intelligence that ranks vulnerabilities by how likely they are to be exploited, weighing vulnerability class, exposure and observed attacker behaviour rather than CVSS alone, with Attacker Eye honeypots capturing exploitation as it begins.
What watchTowr helps with
Knowing what is exposed to the internet
Continuous discovery builds an up-to-date inventory of internet-facing systems, including ones IT did not know about, such as shadow IT and assets from acquisitions.
Responding to a newly published vulnerability
Rapid Reaction checks whether the organisation is actually exposed to an emerging threat and lists the affected assets, so patching can be targeted.
Moving beyond point-in-time penetration tests
Automated red teaming tests the external attack surface continuously rather than once a year, and reports only findings it has validated as exploitable.
Buying time before a patch is ready
Active Defense pushes interim protections to existing WAFs, firewalls and IPS so exposure is reduced while the permanent fix is scheduled and applied.
Implement watchTowr in Australia with TOM SHAW
From licensing to long-term support, one Australian partner looks after your watchTowr deployment.
Supply and licensing
Buy watchTowr through an Australian partner, with licensing sized to what you actually need.
Implementation
We plan and deploy watchTowr in your environment, configured for your risks rather than left on defaults.
Integration
We connect watchTowr with the rest of your security stack.
Support
After go-live we support watchTowr: tuning, upgrades, health checks and help when you need it.
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watchTowr in Australia: common questions
What is watchTowr?
watchTowr provides a preemptive exposure management platform that continuously discovers an organisation's internet-facing assets and tests them with real attacker techniques to find exploitable weaknesses.
What is preemptive exposure management?
It is watchTowr's term for finding, validating and mitigating external exposure before attackers exploit it, combining attack surface discovery, automated red teaming and interim mitigation.
How is watchTowr different from a vulnerability scanner?
Rather than listing every possible issue, watchTowr tries to validate exploitability using attacker techniques and reports confirmed findings with reproduction steps.
Does watchTowr need agents installed?
No. watchTowr states that nothing is installed on customer systems; it works from the outside, as an attacker would.
What is watchTowr Labs?
watchTowr Labs is watchTowr's in-house offensive research team. It looks for zero-day vulnerabilities and new attacker techniques, and its findings feed the platform's threat intelligence, prioritisation and Active Defense rules.
Is watchTowr an external attack surface management (EASM) tool?
EASM is one part of it. watchTowr's Adversary Sight module discovers and attributes internet-facing assets, and the platform then validates which exposures are exploitable and helps mitigate them.
What does watchTowr Active Defense do?
Active Defense pushes ready-made mitigation rules to the WAFs, IDS/IPS and edge providers an organisation already runs, and can close DNS-based exposure and reclaim abandoned cloud assets or domains while a permanent fix is made.
What does watchTowr integrate with?
watchTowr lists integrations with major cloud providers, ticketing and vulnerability management tools, CMDBs including Axonius, CSPM tools including Wiz, edge and DNS providers including Akamai, and SIEM and SOAR tools including SentinelOne. It also offers a REST API, webhooks and MCP.
Is TOM SHAW a watchTowr partner in Australia?
Yes. TOM SHAW is an authorised watchTowr partner in Australia. We supply, implement, integrate and support watchTowr for Australian organisations.
Can TOM SHAW implement watchTowr for us?
Yes. We plan, deploy and configure watchTowr in your environment and integrate it with your existing security tools.
Do you support watchTowr after it is deployed?
Yes. We support watchTowr after go-live, including tuning, upgrades, health checks and help when you need it.
Talk to us about watchTowr
Licensing, implementation, integration or support: tell us what you need and the TOM SHAW team will get back to you.
Talk to us about watchTowrOr call 1800 845 211 or email info@tomshaw.com.