LookingGlass Cyber Solutions

What LookingGlass Cyber Solutions does

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, founded in 2006 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, was a US-based cybersecurity firm specializing in external attack surface management and cyber threat intelligence. Following its April 2023 acquisition by ZeroFox, the company's operations, products, and brand have been integrated into ZeroFox's unified External Cybersecurity platform, with LookingGlass continuing to exist as a sub-brand.

The company's flagship product was scoutPRIME, a cloud-hosted SaaS platform that delivers a holistic, outside-in view of an organization's internet-exposed assets. scoutPRIME creates dynamic footprints of internet-accessible assets, aggregates and normalizes 88 out-of-the-box threat intelligence data sources, and applies a proprietary Threat Indicator Confidence (TIC) scoring system (1-100, bucketed into Critical, Elevated, and Normal ranges) to prioritize threats and vulnerabilities. The platform supports multi-workspace enterprise architecture with collections of CIDR ranges, IP addresses, FQDNs, and ASNs, and exposes an API for programmatic integration and security orchestration. Supporting products included the LookingGlass Suite single sign-on portal and an SDK-compatible API accessible to authenticated users.

LookingGlass generated revenue primarily through enterprise SaaS subscriptions priced on a quote basis, typically on annual or multi-year contracts tied to workspaces, collections, and user licenses. The go-to-market was an enterprise field-sales motion with "Request Demo" as the primary conversion call-to-action, targeting corporate security and CISO teams, federal/state/local government agencies, and critical-infrastructure operators. Primary use cases included external attack surface monitoring, threat intelligence collection, supply chain and third-party risk monitoring, and vulnerability prioritization. Over its history the company raised approximately $118.9 million across multiple equity rounds and pursued an aggressive inorganic strategy, acquiring Cyveillance (2015), CloudShield Technologies (2015), Kleissner & Associates (2015), AlphaWave (2021), and Next5 (2022), the last of which brought in a new CEO (Bryan Ware) with a CISA/DHS background.

Name

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions

Legal name

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions

Website

https://lookingglasscyber.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions is a US-based cybersecurity firm (now part of ZeroFox) whose scoutPRIME platform provides external attack surface monitoring and threat intelligence for enterprise security teams and government agencies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

External Attack Surface Management

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHDADAGAE

Security Analytics & Detection Engineering

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Cybersecurity/Security Operations & Threat Intelligence (SIEM/SOAR/UEBA)

SECONDARYHDADAHAA

Vulnerability Assessment & Scanning

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Cybersecurity/Vulnerability & Exposure Management (VM, ASM, BAS)

Keywords

• Threat intelligence platform
• Attack surface monitoring
• Cyber threat intelligence
• External cybersecurity
• Vulnerability management

Headquarters

HQ city

Reston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Revenue model

1. scoutPRIME SaaS Subscription: Cloud-hosted software-as-a-service platform delivered via subscription model. Access provided through LookingGlass Suite single sign-on portal. Pricing based on workspaces, collections, and user licenses. Annual and multi-year contract billing typically for enterprise deployments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions sells scoutPRIME, a cloud-hosted SaaS threat intelligence and external attack surface management platform. The platform dynamically footprints internet-accessible assets, aggregates and normalizes 88 cyber threat intelligence data sources out-of-the-box, and applies the proprietary Threat Indicator Confidence (TIC) scoring system to quantify and prioritize cyber risk. It is sold to enterprise security teams and government agencies needing continuous visibility into their external attack surface.

Product overview

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, now part of ZeroFox following an April 2023 acquisition, offers a portfolio of external cybersecurity products centered on scoutPRIME, their core threat intelligence and attack surface monitoring platform. scoutPRIME delivers dynamic footprinting, threat intelligence aggregation from 88 data sources, and the proprietary Threat Indicator Confidence (TIC) scoring system. The portfolio also includes the LookingGlass Suite, a single sign-on portal for scoutPRIME management, and an API for programmatic access. These products are now integrated into ZeroFox's unified External Cybersecurity Platform, which encompasses Cyber Threat Intelligence, Attack Surface Intelligence, Brand and Domain Protection, and Executive/VIP Protection solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• scoutPRIME: Monitor your attack surface, enriched with threat intelligence, to manage your cyber risk and vulnerabilities. Features dynamic footprinting, out-of-the-box threat intel aggregation from 88 data sources, customized threat scoring using the proprietary Threat Indicator Confidence (TIC) scoring system, and API integrations.
• LookingGlass Suite

Products and services

• scoutPRIME scoutPRIME is a cloud-hosted SaaS threat intelligence and external attack surface management platform that monitors internet-accessible assets, enriches them with threat intelligence, and helps enterprise security teams and government agencies manage cyber risk and vulnerabilities. It provides dynamic footprinting, aggregation of 88 threat intelligence data sources out-of-the-box, proprietary Threat Indicator Confidence (TIC) scoring, API access, and CSV export/reporting.

Quantifiable outcome

• 88 data sources aggregated and normalized out-of-the-box
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ZeroFoxcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2023In April 2023, ZeroFox acquired LookingGlass Cyber Solutions to strengthen its position in the cybersecurity sector and deliver an integrated external cybersecurity platform. The acquisition combined LookingGlass's threat intelligence and attack surface monitoring capabilities with ZeroFox's broader external cybersecurity platform.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Recorded Future: A leading threat-intelligence platform that aggregates global data sources to provide real-time intelligence on adversaries, infrastructure, and vulnerabilities — directly comparable to scoutPRIME's threat-intelligence aggregation and risk-scoring value proposition.
• Rapid7: Provides vulnerability management, attack-surface monitoring, and threat intelligence through its Insight Platform, competing with scoutPRIME in continuous external attack surface monitoring and threat-informed vulnerability prioritization.
• Tenable: Specializes in vulnerability and exposure management (Nessus, Tenable.io, Tenable One) with an external attack surface management module — directly overlapping with scoutPRIME's dynamic-footprinting and external-asset visibility capabilities.
• BitSight: Provides external attack surface management and third-party cyber risk ratings, directly comparable to scoutPRIME's external footprinting, vulnerability scoring, and supply-chain risk monitoring use cases.
• Mandiant (Google Cloud): A premier threat-intelligence and incident-response provider (now part of Google Cloud) offering intelligence feeds and adversary tracking that compete with scoutPRIME's aggregated intelligence and TIC scoring capabilities.
• Censys: Provides internet-wide scanning and attack-surface management data and tooling that overlap with scoutPRIME's dynamic-footprinting and external-asset discovery functionality.
• Digital Shadows (ReliaQuest): Offers digital risk protection and external attack surface management with threat-intelligence feeds, directly comparable to scoutPRIME's external-monitoring and threat-contextualization capabilities.

Broad incumbents

• CrowdStrike: Endpoint and extended-detection platform with growing threat-intelligence and external attack surface modules (Falcon Intelligence, Falcon Surface); competes broadly with LookingGlass's threat-intel and ASM positioning.
• Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (RiskIQ): Microsoft's EASM offering (built on the RiskIQ acquisition) provides external attack surface discovery and threat intelligence, directly overlapping with scoutPRIME's footprinting and threat-contextualization value.

Emerging players

• Shodan: Internet-connected device and asset search engine widely used for external reconnaissance and attack-surface mapping; overlaps with scoutPRIME's dynamic-footprinting capabilities from a more developer/research-oriented angle.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/LG_Cyber
• Facebookfacebook.com/lookingglasscyber
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lookingglass-cyber-solutions-llc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds7 records

Investors7 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A5 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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