Discovery Seeds

Category: Features & Tools

What is a Discovery Seed?

A discovery seed is a trusted identifier of your organization - such as a domain, IP range, certificate, ASN, or email pattern - that acts as the root reference for asset discovery.

How Seeds Work

From seeds, Malanta.ai pivots outward, uncovering related assets through correlations such as:

• WHOIS data
• DNS records
• Certificate reuse
• Redirect paths
• Hosting providers
• Third-party associations

Seeds enable continuous discovery of your organization's evolving digital footprint. As your infrastructure changes, Malanta uses seeds to automatically find new assets and monitor them.

What Makes a Good Seed?

• Your primary registered domains
• Known IP ranges
• SSL certificates used across your infrastructure
• Email patterns used in domain registration

Updated on: 26/02/2026