Observatory scans the entire internet each day to uncover your exposed assets and the critical vulnerabilities your current tools miss.

ACDS was founded with the belief that cybersecurity can be done better. We’re combining emerging technologies and proven methods to bring a new approach to tackling the growing and persistent threat landscape.

We may be the ‘new kids on the block’, but our experience goes back to the early days of the internet. Our founders are Jonathan Smith, whose 40 years of experience in technology companies has seen him successfully grow many startup FTSE businesses, and Elliott Wilkes, a cyber security authority who has worked for the White House and Pentagon, shaping and implementing government policies and advising some of the most senior government leaders in the world.

Key Observatory features…

Eliminate blind spots in your attack surface.

Extensive historical data sources and continuous scanning ensures your asset inventory is always current. Get visibility into previously unknown assets with scanning that goes deeper than other EASM tools. Don’t waste time hunting someone else’s vulnerability. Observatory carefully parses cloud and shared infrastructure technologies that often result in false positives in other EASM tools.

Insights in minutes with comprehensive vulnerability and exposure detection.

Detect anomalies in your attack surface and identify assets with known common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). We’ve done the hard work to make the complex simple and easy to navigate, saving valuable staff time and improving your team’s efficiency.

Advanced, spoof-resistant fingerprinting.

Observatory features accurate and reliable system identification that is resistant to data spoofing, including JARM, JA4, and Recog, alongside our proprietary detection fingerprints.

Monitor supply chain and third-party risks.

Assess and identify risks with supply chain partners and third-party vendors. Observatory can also help to evaluate Merger and Acquisition security risks early on.

Why ACDS?

We are investing in the science of cyber security using data to rebuild how we identify vulnerability and quantify risk.

• Decades of experience securing some of the most critical systems in UK and US national security combined with a market proven ability to deliver value to the private sector.
• Collectively, we’ve spent time defending critical systems against the world’s top cyber threats.
• We believe that the industry needs to do more of the hard work to remove the complexity and make it more simple for enterprise to adopt and use.
• We are building all our products on the principle that end users shouldn’t have to be security experts to be protected.