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Cloud infrastructure changes constantly. New services spin up, configurations drift, ports get exposed, and developer shortcuts in staging find their way to production. Traditional infrastructure assessments happen quarterly at best, which means months of drift go unexamined between reviews. Cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools flag misconfigurations against policy baselines, but they operate at the configuration layer. They tell you a security group allows inbound traffic on port 22, but they can’t tell you whether that SSH service is running a vulnerable version, whether default credentials work, or whether access to that service chains into lateral movement across your environment.

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How Neo Solves This

Neo assesses your infrastructure the way an external attacker would: by discovering what’s exposed, testing what’s reachable, and exploiting what’s vulnerable to demonstrate real impact.
  1. Discovers your external attack surface — Neo scans your domains, IP ranges, and cloud environments to identify exposed services, open ports, running software versions, and externally accessible management interfaces.
  2. Tests for real vulnerabilities — beyond identifying that a service is exposed, Neo tests whether it’s actually exploitable. It checks for known CVEs affecting the specific versions running, default or weak credentials, misconfigured services, and exploitable protocols.
  3. Assesses cloud configurations — Neo evaluates your cloud environment for misconfigurations that create risk: overly permissive IAM policies, publicly accessible storage buckets, exposed metadata services, misconfigured container orchestration, and insecure network configurations.
  4. Tests lateral movement paths — when Neo gains access to one service, it explores what that access enables. Can it reach internal services? Can it access cloud metadata endpoints? Can it pivot from a compromised container to the underlying host? These attack paths demonstrate the real blast radius of a single misconfiguration.
  5. Tracks drift over time — with scheduled assessments, Neo continuously monitors your infrastructure for changes. New services, modified configurations, and newly disclosed CVEs affecting your running software are flagged automatically.

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What This Looks Like in Practice

You ask Neo to assess your external infrastructure: 
Scan our external infrastructure for exposed services, 
misconfigurations, and known vulnerabilities.

Domains: yourcompany.com, api.yourcompany.com, internal.yourcompany.com
IP ranges: 203.0.113.0/24

Check for exposed management interfaces, default credentials, 
known CVEs, and any paths to internal services.
Neo discovers 14 externally reachable services across your IP range, identifies an exposed Kubernetes dashboard with default credentials on a development cluster, and demonstrates that access to the dashboard enables container deployment with host-level privileges. The finding includes the full access chain, from initial discovery through privilege escalation, with remediation guidance for locking down the dashboard and restricting network access.

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What You Get

  • Full external attack surface visibility — every exposed service, port, and management interface identified and inventoried
  • Validated infrastructure vulnerabilities — confirmed exploitability against your specific versions and configurations, with working exploits
  • Cloud misconfiguration assessment — IAM, storage, networking, and compute configurations evaluated for real security risk
  • Lateral movement analysis — attack paths that show the blast radius of individual findings
  • Continuous drift detection — scheduled assessments that flag new exposures and configuration changes as they happen
  • Evidence for every finding — full exploitation chain with remediation guidance

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Setup

To run cloud and infrastructure testing:
  1. Add your target domains, IP ranges, or cloud environments in Settings → Environments
  2. Configure any required credentials in Settings → Environment Variables (cloud provider access keys for internal configuration assessment, if applicable)
  3. Start a new conversation and tell Neo what to test, or set up a scheduled assessment for continuous monitoring