Features
Everything Defneo does, in one place
Every feature, grouped by area and edition. Search by name or by the legal article they produce evidence for.
Edge protection
Reverse proxy, attack detection and blocking in front of your applications — the free part of the platform.
Reverse proxy and backends
Community + CommercialPublish sites and applications through Traefik, managed from the panel, without editing configuration files.
- Backends by domain and path, with several servers
- Load balancing and health checks
- Security headers and compression applied uniformly
- Disable without losing configuration
- Immediate apply, without restarting sites
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(e)ISO 27001 A.8.20Automatic TLS
Community + CommercialLet's Encrypt certificates issued and renewed automatically for every published domain.
- Issuance on the first HTTPS request
- Renewal before expiry
- Automatic HTTP → HTTPS redirect
- Modern TLS configuration
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(h)ISO 27001 A.8.24GDPR Art. 32Redirects
Community + CommercialDomain and path redirects managed in the same place as backends.
- Old domain → new domain
- Permanent or temporary redirects
- Automatic certificate for the redirected domain too
Request rate limiting
Community + CommercialPer-backend request limiting profiles, with defaults adjustable from settings.
- Default, strict and per-site profiles
- Pre-selected for new backends
- Correct client IP behind a proxy layer
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(e)CrowdSec detection and blocking
Community + CommercialBehavioural analysis of every request and automatic banning of attack sources at the edge.
- Scenarios for scanning, brute force, CVE exploitation and L7 floods
- Defneo scenarios for distributed scans and fake crawlers
- Legitimate crawlers verified and spared
- MITRE ATT&CK mapping
- Fail-closed blocking
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(b)DORA Art. 10ISO 27001 A.8.16Firewall-level banning
Community + CommercialBan decisions are also enforced in the server firewall, not only in the proxy, for traffic that is not HTTP.
- Automatically updated nftables sets
- Covers traffic forwarded to containers too
- Anti-lockout protection for administrative access
ISO 27001 A.8.20IP page, manual ban and unban
Community + CommercialFor any IP: the decision, scenarios, requests and a risk score, with one-click ban or unban.
- CrowdSec alerts with their events
- Risk score by request category
- Unban recommendation for false positives
- Refuses to ban the panel's own address
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(b)Per-site AI crawler blocking
Community + CommercialChoose per backend whether to allow AI crawlers, block only training, or block them all.
- Three levels: off, training, all
- Blocked in the proxy, without loading the application
- Classic search engines unaffected
WAF and virtual patching
CommercialRequest content inspection and blocking of known-vulnerability exploitation before the application.
- Virtual-patching rules for known CVEs
- Lasting bans for sources that keep trying
- Dedicated ban-duration profile for scanners
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(e)ISO 27001 A.8.8DORA Art. 9Geoblocking
CommercialCountry-based traffic blocking, with an exception list for IPs that must get through.
- Country selection from the panel
- IP exceptions
- Effect visible immediately in analytics
Scraping defence
CommercialDetection of automated content harvesting, with crawler verification by operator and a monitor mode before blocking.
- Crawler verification via published ranges and FCrDNS
- Proof of a human from one week of history
- Escalation IP → subnet → autonomous system
- Monitor mode by default
Traps and anti-leak layer
CommercialDecoy paths ban scanners, and sensitive files exposed by mistake are hidden at the edge.
- Identical 404 for known sensitive paths
- Automatic ban on traps
- Required paths (for example /.well-known/) stay open
ISO 27001 A.8.12Blocklists and IOC
CommercialIndicators of compromise from external feeds, matched automatically against new traffic.
- Periodic import from threat-intelligence feeds
- Manually added indicators
- Automatic ban on match
- Unmaintained feeds are rejected
ISO 27001 A.5.7NIS2 Art. 21(2)(b)Traffic spike analyzer
CommercialTraffic bursts are analysed, an AI model proposes rules, and a deterministic validator and an administrator decide.
- Pseudonymised summary sent to the model
- Refuses to ban IPs with evidence of human browsing
- Applied by administrators only, with re-validation
- Local or external model, your choice
EU AI Act Art. 14Gradual A/B rollouts with automatic rollback
CommercialPrimary and canary variants with a traffic weight; the new variant is withdrawn automatically if it degrades.
- Configurable traffic weight
- Error-rate and latency monitoring
- Automatic rollback
ISO 27001 A.8.32Mail gateway for Exchange and Microsoft 365
CommercialPhishing, malware and spam are checked before delivery, with the same rules as the Site Shield mail filter, with no queue of its own.
- Executable, password-form HTML and macro attachments
- Senders from hijacked networks and abuse lists
- Optional ClamAV antivirus
- Modes: monitor, tag to Junk, reject
- Never an open relay; a sender's own verdict is ignored
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(e)ISO 27001 A.8.23Protected Exchange publication
CommercialOutlook on the web, ActiveSync and EWS published through Defneo, with the known exploits blocked and push mail working.
- ProxyShell, ProxyNotShell, ProxyLogon refused and banned
- Admin centre closed to the internet
- Dedicated timeouts for push on phones
- Brute force counted on failed logins
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(e)
Traffic & web analytics
Statistics from the proxy log, with no cookies and no scripts in your pages, and the data on your server.
Cookieless web analytics
Community + CommercialVisitors, pages, countries, sources and technologies, computed from the real requests passing through the proxy.
- No page script and no tracking cookies
- Real pages only or all requests, your choice
- Bot filters by category and banned-IP exclusion
- Long history with an optional analytics engine
GDPR Art. 25Live traffic
Community + CommercialRequests from the last few seconds, with country, path and response code.
- Updates every few seconds
- Errors and blocked requests highlighted
- Click an IP for details
Drill-down on any card
Community + CommercialClick a country, page, IP, source or status code and see every aggregate narrowed to that value.
- The same aggregates for any dimension
- Drill-down total matches the number clicked
- Strict value validation
Visitor journeys
Community + CommercialWhich pages each visitor viewed, in what order, and where they hit errors.
- Sessions split by inactivity
- No bots, scanners or banned IPs by default
- Per-visitor timeline
Traffic reports and route health
CommercialCorrelates routes declared in the sitemap with real 404/5xx errors, so you find broken pages.
- Errors on legitimate routes vs. probes
- Fast visit reports
- Export for the development team
AI web analyst and engagement
CommercialA natural-language traffic report with sessions, bounce rate, time on page and conversions.
- Sessions and engagement for humans only
- Conversions on goal paths you define
- Template fallback without an AI model
SEO and GEO audit
CommercialDozens of technical SEO checks plus citability in AI answer engines, off-page and competitors.
- Checks in seven categories
- Citability in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews
- Self-hosted metasearch, no third-party keys
Monitoring & alerting
What is happening now, what happened overnight and what you need to know immediately.
Multi-channel notifications
Community + CommercialImportant events reach the panel inbox and email, webhook, Slack, Discord or Telegram.
- Rules by event type and severity
- Merging of repeated events
- Recovery announcements
- Daily ban digest
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(b)DORA Art. 10Router health (Edge Health)
Community + CommercialEvery-minute check of all proxy routers, with an immediate alert if a public site is no longer served.
- Severity by consequence
- “Unknown” state when the proxy cannot be read
- Blocking component shipped locally
DORA Art. 10ISO 27001 A.8.16Served certificate monitoring
Community + CommercialIndependent check of the certificates actually served, with an alert before expiry.
- Expiry date per domain
- Invalid certificate detection
- Configurable notifications
ISO 27001 A.8.24A–F security grade
Community + CommercialPassive daily assessment of each site: TLS, headers, security.txt, SPF and DMARC.
- The grade's arithmetic shown
- No guessed paths, no probing
- Checks that could not run are left out
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(f)Overview and relevant alerts
CommercialThe home page that gathers alerts from every module into one feed, without duplicates.
- More than ten sources in one feed
- Failed source shown as unavailable, not zero
- Off-site backup status
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(b)Daily briefing
CommercialWhat happened overnight: bans, new CVEs on your software, silent agents, deadlines, security news.
- Natural-language text with an AI model
- Optional audio version
- Security news in Romanian
CTO Center
CommercialThe executive picture: posture, threats, compliance, AI governance, inventory and key indicators.
- Key indicators with drill-down
- Strategic PDF report
- Sections degrade honestly when a source is missing
NIS2 Art. 20DORA Art. 5Grafana and Prometheus dashboards
CommercialEight automatically provisioned dashboards for the proxy, CrowdSec, network, platform and web applications.
- Embedded in the panel, behind its login
- Real host network metrics
- 15-day metrics retention
ISO 27001 A.8.16Infrastructure alerts
CommercialOver 70 alerting rules for system, network, proxy, CrowdSec and platform components, automatically tested.
- Thresholds relative to your own baseline AND absolute
- Packet floods, conntrack, connection queues
- Routing through AlertManager
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(b)DORA Art. 10ISO 27001 A.8.16Infrastructure and memory budget
CommercialEvery platform component with its status, resources and limits, safely adjustable.
- Limits sized automatically to the hardware
- Warning when reservations do not fit
- Tells you whether a change is live or needs a recreate
ISO 27001 A.8.6Certificate Transparency monitoring
CommercialCertificates issued by anyone for your domains, from the public CT logs.
- Detection of unauthorised issuance
- New subdomains appearing in certificates
- Notification on new entries
ISO 27001 A.8.24
Endpoints & agents
Our own agents for Linux servers and Windows workstations: inventory, posture, detection and controlled response.
Linux agent
CommercialReports the inventory, security posture and telemetry of each Linux server.
- Enrolment with a single-use token
- Signed reports with anti-replay protection
- Panel identity verified on every connection
- Offline install package
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(i)ISO 27001 A.5.9DORA Art. 8Windows agent
CommercialInventory, posture and events for Windows workstations and servers, with a preconfigured installer.
- Installer with the token embedded
- Full verification before any write, with rollback
- Windows Update and patch-level status
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(i)ISO 27001 A.5.9Hardware and software inventory
CommercialSystem, packages, services, ports, processes and end-of-life runtimes for each host.
- EOL runtimes from public calendars
- Processes with hash checks against public sources
- Network topology and discovered assets
- AI assistant for host posture
ISO 27001 A.5.9DORA Art. 8NIS2 Art. 21(2)(i)Active Directory coverage
CommercialCompares domain computers with installed agents and shows untracked machines.
- LDAP connector configured from the panel
- List of machines without an agent
- Coverage percentage
ISO 27001 A.5.9CIS Benchmarks
CommercialAutomatic CIS-inspired configuration checks on each host, with score and remediation.
- SSH, passwords, services, permissions, logging, firewall
- Fleet-wide picture
- Documented exceptions
ISO 27001 A.8.9NIS2 Art. 21(2)(e)DORA Art. 9File integrity monitoring (FIM)
CommercialDetects changes to system and configuration files, comparing with vendor hashes.
- Comparison with package hashes
- Acknowledgement of legitimate changes
- Hosts without a hash database show as “not verified”
ISO 27001 A.8.16NIS2 Art. 21(2)(b)GDPR Art. 32NetMon
CommercialEach host's network behaviour: beaconing, DGA, DNS tunnelling, abnormal volumes and new destinations.
- Context: process, destination, baseline age
- AI interpretation per finding
- Known-noise suppression, reason shown
- Suppressed alerts stay in history
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(b)DORA Art. 10ISO 27001 A.8.16Windows endpoint protection
CommercialA resident service that scans new files, evaluates processes and blocks malicious connections and URLs, alongside Defender.
- Post-write scanning and quarantine
- IP blocking before connection
- URL filtering in Chromium browsers
- Content analysis in an isolated process
- Open-source library inventory, correlated with CVEs
ISO 27001 A.8.7NIS2 Art. 21(2)(e)Parental control
CommercialApp and site blocking and screen time on children's Windows profiles.
- Schedule by day and hour
- Warnings before time runs out
- Session lock without losing work
Controlled host response
CommercialProcess termination, host isolation and firewall rules, executed only with another person's approval.
- Second-person approval, expires in 30 minutes
- Opt-in per host
- Target identified stably, not just by PID
- Isolation that keeps the panel link
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(b)DORA Art. 11ISO 27001 A.5.26
Vulnerabilities & exposure
What is vulnerable, what is exposed and what an attacker sees — prioritised and tracked to remediation.
CVEs on real software
CommercialVulnerabilities matched to the versions actually installed on each host, plus the platform's own dependencies.
- OSV, NVD (vetted mapping) and MSRC
- Prioritisation by CISA KEV and EPSS
- Minimum fixed version
- Per-host remediation plan
- “Not verified” when no reliable mapping exists
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(e)ISO 27001 A.8.8DORA Art. 9Security scanner
CommercialPassive or active scans of your own sites, with remediation and recurring schedules.
- TLS, headers, DMARC, security.txt, HTTP methods, open redirect, GraphQL, clickjacking
- Content fuzzer in active mode, with consent
- AI remediation and playbooks for coding assistants
- Scan-to-scan comparison
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(f)DORA Art. 24ISO 27001 A.8.8Authorised network scanning
CommercialNetwork scans run by agents, authorised per target, with exclusion lists that always win.
- Signed per-target authorisation
- Fail-closed kill switch
- Assets are retired, never deleted
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(f)ISO 27001 A.8.20On-demand Kali tools
CommercialClassic pentest tools started on demand in an isolated container, with target guards.
- Off by default, auto-stop when idle
- Intrusive tests for administrators only, with typed confirmation
- The whole target range is checked
DORA Art. 25Exposure Management (CTEM)
CommercialEvery module's findings on assets, with an explainable risk score, KPIs and verified remediation.
- Score factors add up exactly to the score
- KPIs with the list behind the number
- Remediation “verified” only after a confirming scan
- Risk acceptance with reason and expiry
- PDF/CSV and SIEM export
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(a)DORA Art. 6ISO 27001 A.8.8Integrations exposure
CommercialAn inventory of third-party API keys with an additive risk score — without storing the secrets.
- Age, permissions, IP restrictions, data volume
- Empty fields raise the risk
- Automatic discovery of some integrations
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(d)DORA Art. 28ISO 27001 A.5.19OSINT and passive reconnaissance
CommercialWhat is public about your domains, IPs and addresses, without probing them, plus a remediation plan grouped by action.
- Certificate Transparency, DNS, public engines, published content
- Domain tree and orphaned CNAMEs
- “Could not check” kept apart from “not found”
- Sequential scan of discovered hosts
ISO 27001 A.5.7NIS2 Art. 21(2)(a)Look-alike domain check
Community + CommercialDiscovers on demand the domains imitating your brand and estimates whether they clone your site.
- Letter variations, other extensions, added words
- Clone score with its factors shown
- Domains on the same server as the original recognised as yours
Watchlist, attribution and takedown
CommercialContinuous tracking of look-alike domains, with analysis of who is behind them and the fastest way to stop them.
- Notifications on new findings only
- Cloaking detection (the page seen from ads)
- Correlation, never firm attribution
- Takedown paths per registrar and host
Email authentication
CommercialSPF, DKIM and DMARC checks on your domains, with explanations of what is missing.
- All domains in one view
- Concrete recommendations
- Signal for compliance controls
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(g)Breached passwords and accounts (HIBP)
CommercialChecks whether the organisation's addresses appear in public breaches and whether passwords are compromised.
- Local breached-password database, queryable offline
- Passwords never sent out
- Monitoring of organisation addresses
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(j)ISO 27001 A.5.17GitHub and Azure AD audit
CommercialReads the audit logs and flags risky actions in your GitHub organisation and Azure AD (Entra ID) tenant.
- New SSH keys, OAuth apps, repositories made public
- Role changes and application consents
- Risky sign-ins and MFA failures
ISO 27001 A.8.15NIS2 Art. 21(2)(i)
Compliance
Evidence from the real state of your systems, tracked deadlines and audit documents. Defneo does not make you compliant and is not legal advice.
NIS2 self-assessment
Community + Commercial59 controls across 12 domains, derived from NIS2 Art. 21, with a score and a gap list.
- Practical explanation per control
- ISO 27001 mapping
- Gaps ordered by importance
NIS2 Art. 21Guided NIS2 action plan
CommercialOrdered steps with deadlines, the entity profile and controls that tick themselves from what other modules do.
- “What to do next”, with reason and instructions per step
- Live signals: backup, MFA, training, monitoring
- Management training tracked separately
- Audit PDF report with each evidence source
NIS2 Art. 20NIS2 Art. 21Incident register and DNSC track
CommercialA significant incident starts the 24h, 72h and 30-day clocks, with pre-filled forms.
- Deadlines derived from the previous stage
- Clocks in UTC
- Overdue deadlines stay visible after closing
- DNSC registration stages
NIS2 Art. 23DORA Art. 17DORA Art. 19ISO 27001 A.5.24DORA
CommercialThe controls of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, assessed from system state where possible, for financial entities.
- ICT risk framework, protection, detection, response, backup
- ICT third-party risk — at most “partial” without your confirmation
- Narrative and audit report
DORA Art. 5–15DORA Art. 17DORA Art. 28GDPR
CommercialThe record of processing, data-subject requests, breaches, processors and Art. 32 measures.
- Gaps per processing activity
- 30-day clock for requests, 72h for breaches
- Technical measures proven from the platform
- DPIA screening
- PDFs: ROPA, Art. 32 evidence, draft notification
GDPR Art. 30GDPR Art. 32GDPR Art. 33GDPR Art. 35ISO 27001:2022
CommercialClauses 4–10 and all 93 Annex A controls, with live signals and the Statement of Applicability.
- Practical guidance per control
- SoA export as PDF
- ISO 27017, 27701 and 22301 skeletons
ISO 27001 clauses 4–10ISO 27001 Annex ACompliance Center
CommercialOne view across all frameworks, where a control proven once serves every framework that requires it.
- Score per framework with drill-down to the evidence
- List of items needing attention
- Unavailable framework ≠ 0%
- Bilingual text, with legal quotes kept in the original
NIS2 Art. 21DORAGDPRISO 27001CISImmutable evidence
CommercialSnapshots of compliance state, cryptographically chained and protected against modification and deletion.
- Chain verification points to the first altered entry
- Each snapshot lists unavailable sources
- No edit or delete routes
ISO 27001 A.5.28ISO 27001 A.5.33NIS2 Art. 21(2)(f)Supplier register
CommercialSuppliers, their access, contracts and assessments, with history kept after revocation.
- Access by accounts, keys and connections
- Revocation without deletion
- Export as a starting point for the DORA register of information
- Correlation with events, not attribution
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(d)DORA Art. 28ISO 27001 A.5.19–A.5.22
AI governance
Inventory and classification of AI systems under the AI Act, organisational controls and traceability of every AI step.
AI inventory and risk tiers
CommercialEvery AI system used in the organisation, with owner, purpose, data and AI Act risk tier.
- Tiers: prohibited, high, limited, minimal
- Art. 9–15 obligations for high-risk only
- Cost, benefit and implementation phase
EU AI Act Art. 6EU AI Act Art. 9–15EU AI Act Art. 26AI Act controls and guided plan
CommercialOrganisation-level controls, with ordered steps and the deadlines of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.
- AI literacy, transparency, general-purpose models
- Urgent steps = obligations already in force
- PDF documents for audit
EU AI Act Art. 4EU AI Act Art. 50EU AI Act Art. 113AI agent policies
CommercialDeclare the AI agents and automations that access your services and follow their behaviour.
- Identification by User-Agent and IP
- Behavioural anomaly detection
- AI explanation with template fallback
AI journal
CommercialEvery model call, proposal, human decision and action, in an append-only, cryptographically chained journal.
- Prompts kept only as fingerprint and length
- The API token that triggered the action
- Chain integrity verification
EU AI Act Art. 12EU AI Act Art. 14ISO 27001 A.8.15AI assistance with your own model
CommercialBriefing, remediation, anomaly explanations and interpretations written by an OpenAI-compatible model you choose, including a local one.
- Fully functional without a model, on templates
- IPs pseudonymised before sending
- The model proposes, a human decides
EU AI Act Art. 14
People & training
Training, simulations and policies, with evidence per person, date and version.
Security awareness training
CommercialBilingual microlearning courses with quizzes, reminders and organisation-wide coverage, management included.
- Included, editable catalogue
- Learner portal without an account, with swipeable lessons on mobile
- Only a passed quiz closes an enrolment
- Management tracked separately
- Certificates and PDF report
NIS2 Art. 20(2)NIS2 Art. 21(2)(g)DORA Art. 13(6)ISO 27001 A.6.3EU AI Act Art. 4Phishing simulations
CommercialSimulated phishing campaigns with realistic scenarios and a direct link to training.
- Scenarios: delivery, lock screen, collaboration, urgent payment
- Opens, clicks, credentials, reports
- Automatic course enrolment after a click
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(g)ISO 27001 A.6.3Policy attestation
CommercialInternal policies published and confirmed by each employee, tied to the version.
- Republishing invalidates old confirmations
- Periodic re-confirmation
- Empty register ≠ 100%
ISO 27001 A.5.1ISO 27001 A.6.3NIS2 Art. 21(2)(g)HR and inventory portal
CommercialAn internal portal for employees, equipment and inventory, managed from the panel.
- Tracking of allocated equipment
- Joiners and leavers
- Link to the technical inventory
ISO 27001 A.5.9ISO 27001 A.5.11
Operations & integration
Access, automation, backup, updates and integration with the rest of your tools.
Roles, 2FA and passkeys
Community + CommercialThree roles with default deny on every change, two-step verification and WebAuthn keys.
- Administrator, operator, viewer
- TOTP and passkeys (FIDO2)
- Persistent brute-force lockout
- New routes protected from day one
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(i)NIS2 Art. 21(2)(j)ISO 27001 A.5.15ISO 27001 A.8.5API tokens
Community + CommercialAutomated API access for scripts, MCP servers and AI agents, with a capped role and expiry.
- Effective role recomputed on every request
- Expiry of at most 90 days
- Stored only as a hash, shown once
- A token cannot manage tokens
ISO 27001 A.5.17Config versions and rollback
Community + CommercialEvery change is saved, applied, checked and rolled back automatically if the proxy is unhealthy.
- History with author and date
- Version comparison
- Manual restore
ISO 27001 A.8.32DORA Art. 9Automatic install and sizing
CommercialThe installer checks requirements and sizes each service's memory limits to the hardware.
- Requirement checks before installing
- Refuses an install that does not fit in memory
- Upgrade with a verified backup and rollback
Signed releases
Community + CommercialEvery release is described by a digitally signed manifest, verified before installation.
- Signature verification on the server
- Downgrades and disallowed jumps refused
- Manual import for isolated servers
ISO 27001 A.8.19NIS2 Art. 21(2)(e)Updates from the panel
CommercialThe panel announces new versions and applies them with a backup, health check and automatic rollback.
- Typed confirmation, administrators only
- Distinct outcomes: applied, rolled back, refused, failed
- “Up to date” only after a successful check
ISO 27001 A.8.8ISO 27001 A.8.32Off-site backup
CommercialPlatform configuration and data sent automatically to Google Drive, an SSH server or WebDAV.
- Automatic schedule
- Destination configurable by administrators only
- Last backup status on the Overview
NIS2 Art. 21(2)(c)DORA Art. 12ISO 27001 A.8.13SIEM export
CommercialDefneo events delivered to your SIEM, with a queue, retries and undelivered messages kept.
- Syslog (UDP/TCP/TLS), webhook, Splunk HEC, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic
- CEF and ECS formats
- Secrets masked after saving
ISO 27001 A.8.15DORA Art. 10Distributed proxy nodes
CommercialAdditional proxy nodes in other locations, managed from the same panel.
- Enrolment with a single-use token
- Signed requests, no replay
- Backends assigned per node
DORA Art. 11ISO 27001 A.8.14Panel on your own domain
CommercialThe panel published on your own domain with a Let's Encrypt certificate, with fallback access on the IP.
- Applied with checks and rollback
- Fallback access that never closes
- Warning when agents would communicate unencrypted
ISO 27001 A.8.24
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