/continuous-exposure-monitoring

name: continuous-exposure-monitoring
description: "Turns one-shot external recon into a continuous monitoring program. Covers the scheduled re-scan-and-diff loop (baseline snapshot -> interval sleep -> re-scan -> asset/finding delta -> threshold-gated webhook alert), the scan-to-scan diff engine (new/removed/changed assets by a tracked-attribute table, new/resolved findings by a stable cross-scan fingerprint), adversary CTI / chatter monitoring across six public feeds (ransomwatch, ransomware.live, HackerNews Algolia search, Reddit security-subreddit RSS, GitHub Gist code-search, public Telegram channel scraping) with a source-kind-aware severity engine (leak-site/forum/telegram/paste tiers, CRITICAL through INFO), literal/glob/regex watchlist pattern matching, full-corpus capture with retroactive rescan on new watchlist entries, infrastructure-tracking-over-time discipline (certificate-transparency, passive-DNS, port/service, and typosquat re-enumeration cadence, and what a genuine 'perimeter drift' event looks like in the diff output), a five-state finding-lifecycle state machine (open/triaged/risk_accepted/resolved/false_positive) with per-severity SLA and fingerprint-based cross-scan dedup and auto-resolve/reopen rules, the alert-fatigue trap where a lifecycle-unaware rule re-fires on an already-accepted finding, a durable retry/backoff alert-outbox pattern ('queued is not delivered'), and copy-paste bash-cron plus PowerShell-Scheduled-Task recipes for a re-scan+diff loop with the Slack-compatible webhook payload shape. Passive OSINT and analysis only -- no new active-intrusion technique. Use when setting up ongoing monitoring for a retainer or MSSP engagement, tuning alert thresholds to avoid fatigue, triaging a finding's lifecycle status, investigating adversary chatter about a brand, building a 'what changed on the perimeter since last week' report, or deciding whether a persisting finding should re-alert."
version: 1.0
triggers:
  - continuous monitoring
  - continuous exposure monitoring
  - retainer monitoring
  - MSSP monitoring
  - scheduled rescan
  - scheduled scan
  - scan diff
  - diff scans
  - monitor a target
  - monitor continuously
  - re-scan and diff
  - delta alert
  - alert on delta
  - drift detection
  - attack surface drift
  - perimeter drift
  - what changed since last scan
  - ransomware leak site monitoring
  - leak site monitoring
  - adversary chatter
  - dark web monitoring
  - brand mention monitoring
  - IAB monitoring
  - paste site monitoring
  - telegram brand monitoring
  - CTI feed
  - threat intel feed
  - chatter watchlist
  - retroactive rescan
  - infrastructure tracking over time
  - certificate transparency monitoring
  - CT log monitoring
  - passive DNS deltas
  - new subdomain alert
  - typosquat monitoring
  - typosquat surveillance
  - finding lifecycle
  - false positive triage
  - risk accepted
  - finding suppression
  - alert fatigue
  - durable alert delivery
  - alert outbox
  - retry backoff
  - finding SLA
  - overdue finding
  - cron recon
  - scheduled task recon
  - monitoring cadence
  - fleet monitoring
  - cross-scan tracking
  - queued vs delivered

Continuous Exposure Monitoring — Loop, Diff, Chatter, Lifecycle

> Companion skills: [`osint-methodology`](../osint-methodology/) (the 5-stage pipeline this skill > loops — see its §7.2 "ongoing weekly diff" profile, which this skill fills in with concrete > mechanics), [`offensive-osint`](../offensive-osint/) (§29 Threat Intel & IOCs — this skill > **deepens** that section's advisory/IOC-feed directory with the continuous adversary-chatter > watch loop and CTI-feed cadence it explicitly lacks; use §29 for indicator enrichment and > vulnerability-prioritization data sources, this skill for the standing collection loop), > [`org-attack-surface`](../org-attack-surface/) (the org-first discovery this skill's re-scans > re-run on a schedule), [`exposure-risk-quantification`](../exposure-risk-quantification/) (reads > this skill's finding-lifecycle suppression state to compute `risk_trend` and the FAIR score — see > its risk-score model). This skill answers a different question than all four: not "what does the > target expose right now," but **"is what the target exposes changing, and should anyone be told."**

0. When to Use / When NOT

**Use this skill when:**

• Standing up ongoing monitoring for a retainer, MSSP, or bug-bounty program instead of a one-shot

engagement — the client wants to know about *new* exposure, not to re-read yesterday's report.

• Deciding how often to re-run which recon stage (daily vs. weekly vs. monthly) without either

wasting API quota / detection budget on cheap-to-skip stages or missing real drift.

• Building or tuning adversary-chatter monitoring (ransomware leak sites, forum/paste mentions,

Telegram brand mentions) for a target's brand/domain.

• Deciding whether a finding that keeps showing up in every re-scan should keep alerting, or has

already been triaged/accepted and should go quiet.

• Debugging "the webhook never fired" or "the webhook fired twice" — alert delivery reliability,

dedup, and backoff behavior.

• Writing a "what changed on the perimeter since last week" deliverable.

**Do NOT use this skill when:**

• You need the one-shot discovery methodology itself — that's `osint-methodology` (5-stage

pipeline) and `offensive-osint` (the per-technique arsenal). This skill assumes discovery already happened at least once and is about the *second and every subsequent* run.

• You need a new active-intrusion technique. This skill is a scheduling, diffing, and alerting

layer over recon that is already authorized and already running — see §5.

• The target's authorization isn't established, or a **recurring** cadence hasn't been explicitly

agreed — see §1's monitoring-specific authorization note.

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1. Authorization & Legal Posture

Same base posture as the companion skills: intended for assets the operator owns or