One platform for the security work that used to take ten.
Shadow Span was built for lean security teams — the ones expected to cover threat intelligence, attack surface, application and cloud security, vendor risk, and compliance with a fraction of the headcount the problem assumes.
Our mission
Security tooling has quietly become a tax on the teams least able to afford it — a dozen consoles, a dozen invoices, and the same risk explained a dozen different ways to leadership. We think that’s backwards.
Shadow Span consolidates ten standalone security tools into one platform: threat intelligence, external attack surface management, application security, cloud security posture across AWS, Azure & GCP, vulnerability and patch management, third-party vendor risk, phishing and brand protection, AI & MCP governance, and compliance & risk — mapped against 11 frameworks. Instead of stitching dashboards together, we correlate signals across every layer into a single view, and translate “what’s broken” into “what it costs” with AI-generated, board-ready narratives.
We pay special attention to the security problems the next decade is creating — the AI agents and MCP servers your teams are already adopting — so governance keeps pace with adoption instead of chasing it.
Consolidation over sprawl
A dozen tools, a dozen invoices, and the same risk explained a dozen ways is backwards. One platform, one correlated view.
Built for lean teams
Enterprise-grade coverage shouldn’t require enterprise-grade headcount. We design for the team of a few that carries the whole program.
Govern what’s next
The AI agents and MCP servers your teams already adopted are the next decade’s attack surface. Governance should keep pace with adoption, not chase it.
The people behind the platform
A small, senior team that has lived the problem we’re solving.
David Trafford
Founder & CEO
David founded Shadow Span to give small security teams the kind of coverage usually reserved for organizations with ten times the budget. He leads product and engineering, and set the platform’s consolidation-first architecture — one correlated view instead of a dozen disconnected consoles.
Selina Savoy
Product Manager
Selina owns the product roadmap and the day-to-day experience of the platform. She turns the messy reality of frontline security work into something a lean team can actually run, and keeps every release honest to what practitioners need on the ground.
Jason Brown
Head Analyst
Jason leads threat intelligence and security research. He curates the detection content and validates findings across the platform, so what Shadow Span surfaces to customers is signal worth acting on — not noise to triage.