
Site Sentry: Proactive Fraud Attack Surface Analysis
Fraud often strikes from unexpected angles. Maybe your product team launches a new feature that opens a loophole. Maybe fraudsters discover a route that sidesteps all your checks. Teams scramble to put out the fire—and that can eat up precious time and resources. That’s why we built Site Sentry.
The Challenge
Over and over, we heard about three big surprise scenarios that drive unplanned fraud work:
- A new product feature inadvertently introduces a fraud vector nobody anticipated.
- Growth changes user behavior faster than defenses can adapt.
- Attackers find a new vulnerability and quietly exploit it before anyone notices.
In all cases, you’re forced to react. Our customers asked for a better way—an early warning system.
What Is Site Sentry?
Spec continuously monitors user traffic and breaks down journeys into distinct routes. When our behavioral monitors detect sudden changes in route preferences, it highlights areas that might spell trouble—whether from everyday user shifts or malicious exploits.

Use Cases
- Hidden Fraudster Bypasses: Attackers latch onto a route that skips a key check, like MFA or an address validation step.
- New Product Launches: Commerce teams roll out offerings like digital goods or drop sales, creating unexpected purchase flows.
- Expanded Login or Payment Options: An updated user experience reshapes how visitors authenticate or pay, opening the door for new fraud patterns.
Why It Matters
By detecting and surfacing these behavioral shifts early, Site Sentry gives you time to adapt—tightening protections around new features, adjusting your fraud rules, or closing risky pathways before the damage is done.
Looking to get a head start? Reach out for a closer look at how Site Sentry can help you stay one step ahead.
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Nate Kharrl, CEO and co-founder at Spec, has built leading solutions for application security and fraud challenges since the early days of the cloud era. Drawing from his cyber experience at Akamai, ThreatMetrix, and eBay, Nate helped found Spec to focus on the needs of businesses operating in a landscape of increasing AI risks. Under Nate’s leadership, Spec grew from its mid-pandemic founding to raise $30M in venture-backed funding to build solutions used by Fortune 500 companies transacting billions in online commerce. Spec’s service offerings today include protective measures for websites and APIs that specialize in defending against attacks designed to bypass bot defenses and risk assessment platforms.