Identify control gaps before funds move. Six questions tailored to your operating model and transaction risk profile.
A crypto attack surface assessment is a structured review of the control gaps in a digital asset organisation's transaction lifecycle — from the moment a counterparty wallet is first encountered to the point at which funds are confirmed on-chain.
Unlike a traditional penetration test or compliance audit, it focuses on operational and policy-level exposure: where controls are absent, partial, or dependent on a single point of failure. For centralised exchanges, custodians, payments processors, and infrastructure providers, the highest-impact risks often sit not in infrastructure vulnerabilities, but in the decision logic applied before a transaction is signed or broadcast.
Most security tooling in digital asset markets focuses on detecting suspicious activity after it has occurred. By the time a transaction is flagged post-broadcast, funds may already be irreversible. Pre-execution enforcement — policies applied before a transaction is signed or sent — is the control category with the highest potential for loss prevention, and the one most commonly absent or only partially implemented.
This assessment is designed for operators in regulated or high-value digital asset environments: centrally-custodied exchanges, institutional custodians, on-ramp and off-ramp payments processors, stablecoin issuers, and infrastructure providers with direct exposure to transaction flows. It is particularly relevant for security leads, compliance officers, and operational risk managers evaluating current control coverage.
