watchTowr

In 2021, a former ethical hacker named Benjamin Harris noticed a critical flaw in how organizations were defending themselves against cyber threats. While traditional security approaches focused on reactive measures and point-in-time vulnerability scans, Harris understood that modern attackers had fundamentally changed the game - exploiting vulnerabilities within hours of disclosure while enterprise patch cycles still took weeks or months. This realization led to the founding of watchTowr, a Singapore-based cybersecurity startup that would redefine how organizations think about external attack surface management.

watchTowr developed what it calls Preemptive Exposure Management - a unified approach that combines proactive threat intelligence, real attacker telemetry, and automated red teaming into a single AI-powered platform. Unlike traditional attack surface management tools that merely build visibility, watchTowr continuously validates exploitability and autonomously mitigates exposures at the edge. The company's research division, watchTowr Labs, operates as an internal APT group, discovering zero-days and novel attack techniques before malicious actors can weaponize them. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and critical infrastructure providers worldwide, watchTowr helps organizations identify exposure in minutes and mitigate at attacker speed - giving security teams the time they need to respond before breaches occur.