Case Study: Attaxion achieves high-coverage attack surface discovery with WhoisXML API

Attaxion builds high-coverage attack surface discovery with WhoisXML API

Attaxion, a U.S.-based cybersecurity platform, needed to build an attack surface discovery engine with high coverage and accuracy to rival larger competitors. Their challenge was to identify clients' external digital assets without the engineering resources of an enterprise team. To power this cyber reconnaissance, they chose WhoisXML API as their main data provider, integrating its DNS and WHOIS services.

WhoisXML API provided the clean, structured data that became the foundation of Attaxion's solution. By combining multiple APIs like Reverse WHOIS, Reverse IP, and Subdomains Lookup, WhoisXML API enabled Attaxion to build a powerful discovery engine that reduced false positives and simplified their system architecture. The result was a platform offering broad asset visibility and a high signal-to-noise ratio, allowing Attaxion to democratize enterprise-grade external attack surface management for smaller organizations.

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