How PortWarden works
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Find exposure fast, get notified when it changes, and receive clear guidance to secure your assets.
From first endpoint to prioritized fixes
PortWarden is built to help small teams move from “what is exposed?” to “what do we fix first?” with regularly scheduled monitoring, clear findings, and less generic scanner output.
Add your Domain or IP
Start with a public IP address or domain, then tell PortWarden what you want monitored.
Verify ownership
We require proof of control so scans stay authorized and your account only monitors assets you actually own.
Scan on a schedule
PortWarden performs regularly scheduled checks so you can catch newly exposed services, port changes, and obvious misconfigurations.
Get alerted when exposure changes
New ports, service changes, or fresh findings show up quickly, so your team can respond before exposure drifts too far.
Review reports and history
See evidence-backed findings, what changed since the last scan, and a fix-first report your team can actually work from.
Fix, then retest
After you make changes, rerun checks to confirm the exposure dropped the way you intended.
From scheduled monitoring to deeper on-demand testing
PortWarden gives you a clear path from free visibility to broader scheduled monitoring, then on-demand testing when you need deeper answers, without changing the core workflow.
Free plan
Light monitoring for up to a few endpoints, focused on visible port exposure and change awareness. Good for getting a baseline before you need deeper help.
Basic monitoring
Ongoing monitoring for endpoint changes and broader exposure signals, plus multi-format reports and built-in guided analysis that helps your team work through remediation.
Premium monitoring
Everything in Basic, plus deeper vulnerability detection for teams that want stronger coverage, richer findings, and more context for hardening decisions.
Guided remediation support built into the monthly plan
On Basic and Premium, PortWarden turns scan output into multi-format reports and gives your team built-in reporting and analysis inside the platform's self-serve workflows.
You can ask follow-up questions in plain English, like what changed, what is risky, which fix should come first, and how to validate remediation at 3:00 AM if that is when the work needs to happen.
What built-in reporting and analysis helps with
- Prioritizing fixes by likely impact
- Reducing false positives caused by generic assumptions
- Turning findings into a practical checklist
- Helping non-specialists understand what to change
- Supporting retesting and validation after remediation
- Giving customers a useful remediation conversation inside the same workflow
Need deeper testing beyond scheduled monitoring?
In addition to ongoing monitoring, PortWarden offers on-demand advanced testing jobs for teams that need stronger validation on a specific target, rollout, application, or external risk question.
Customers can start with guided analysis in the portal, then hand off to human review when a finding needs deeper judgment or a full penetration test.
Good fit for
- Pre-launch and pre-audit checks
- New infrastructure rollouts
- Targeted recon and deeper exposure reviews
- One-off validation for a sensitive endpoint or domain
