Monitoring

Twelve external controls, assessed as a single posture.

Hosen Cyber focuses on externally observable signals that are meaningful to a smaller organisation. Website availability is checked every 15 minutes; the wider control set is normally reassessed daily and can also be refreshed with Check now.

01

Website availability

Confirms the public website is reachable and records availability evidence on a frequent schedule.

02

HTTPS & certificate health

Checks certificate validity, expiry and whether the public site can establish a trusted HTTPS connection.

03

Email authentication

Reviews SPF and DMARC posture to identify common weaknesses in domain-level email authentication.

04

Security headers

Checks important browser-facing HTTP security headers and records material changes in configuration.

05

DNS health

Reviews externally visible DNS records and configuration signals that affect resilience and trust.

06

Domain expiry

Tracks registration expiry information so an avoidable domain lapse is less likely to become an operational incident.

07

Exposed ports

Assesses externally reachable services only after domain ownership and explicit active-scan authorisation have been recorded.

08

TLS configuration

Reviews supported transport security configuration and highlights material weaknesses in the public TLS posture.

09

DNSSEC

Checks whether DNSSEC is present and externally verifiable for the monitored domain.

10

Email transport security

Reviews publicly observable mail transport security signals relevant to secure email delivery.

11

Website technology exposure

Identifies technology information exposed by the public website that may increase unnecessary attack-surface visibility.

12

Malware & reputation

Uses configured reputation intelligence to identify external warning signals associated with the monitored domain.

Evidence model

Freshness matters.

Scheduled evidence

Results are timestamped and retained so the dashboard can show the current state and the sequence of significant changes that led to it.

On-demand refresh

Check now refreshes enabled and eligible controls while respecting authorisation, availability and provider constraints.

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