Cybersecurity Performance Management

Security Ratings

Cybersecurity Performance Management (CPM) continuously evaluates and improves an organization's cybersecurity posture. It involves setting clear objectives, measuring performance against those objectives, and making necessary adjustments to optimize security controls and processes.  

ThreatNG's comprehensive suite of capabilities can be a cornerstone of an effective CPM program:

1. Continuous Monitoring and Assessment

ThreatNG's continuous monitoring capabilities provide real-time visibility into your external attack surface, enabling you to:  

  • Identify and prioritize vulnerabilities: ThreatNG's discovery and assessment engine automatically identifies weaknesses across your digital assets, including susceptibility to BEC, phishing, ransomware, and other threats. This allows you to focus remediation efforts on the most critical areas.  

  • Track security ratings: ThreatNG provides security ratings that benchmark your organization's security posture against industry peers and best practices. This helps you understand your overall risk level and identify areas for improvement.  

  • Monitor third-party risk: ThreatNG assesses the security posture of your suppliers and vendors, helping you manage supply chain risks and ensure compliance with security standards.  

2. Reporting and Analysis

ThreatNG's reporting capabilities provide valuable insights into your security performance:  

  • Executive reporting: Provides high-level summaries of your security posture, highlighting key risks and trends for management.  

  • Technical reporting: Offers detailed information for security teams to analyze vulnerabilities and plan remediation efforts.

  • Prioritized reporting: Focuses on the most critical vulnerabilities and risks, enabling efficient resource allocation.  

  • Ransomware susceptibility reporting: Provides specific insights into your organization's susceptibility to ransomware attacks.  

  • SEC filings reporting: Helps publicly traded companies meet regulatory requirements by providing insights into cybersecurity risks and disclosures.

3. Collaboration and Management

ThreatNG facilitates collaboration and streamlines security management:  

  • Role-based access controls: Ensure that the right people have access to the correct information.  

  • Correlation Evidence Questionnaires: Dynamically generated questionnaires help facilitate cross-functional cooperation and efficient incident response.  

  • Policy management: Customizable risk configuration and scoring allow you to align ThreatNG with your organization's risk tolerance and security policies.  

4. Intelligence Repositories

ThreatNG's extensive intelligence repositories provide valuable context for your security assessments:  

  • Dark web monitoring: Identifies potential threats and compromised credentials circulating on the dark web.

  • Ransomware event tracking: Provides insights into ransomware groups and their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).  

  • Vulnerability databases: Access to known vulnerabilities helps you prioritize patching and remediation efforts.

  • ESG violation monitoring: Tracks environmental, social, and governance (ESG) violations that could impact your organization's reputation and financial performance.  

How ThreatNG Works with Complementary Solutions

ThreatNG can integrate with other security tools and services to enhance your CPM program. For example:

  • Security Information and Event Management (SIEM): ThreatNG can feed vulnerability data into your SIEM to provide context for security events and improve threat detection.  

  • Vulnerability scanners: ThreatNG can complement vulnerability scanners by providing external attack surface visibility and threat intelligence.  

  • Threat intelligence platforms: ThreatNG can integrate with threat intelligence platforms to enrich your understanding of the threat landscape and improve risk assessments.  

Examples with Investigation Modules

ThreatNG's investigation modules provide deep insights into specific areas of your security posture:  

  • Domain Intelligence: By analyzing DNS records, certificates, and other domain-related information, ThreatNG can identify potential vulnerabilities like subdomain takeovers, exposed APIs, and known vulnerabilities. This information can be used to prioritize patching and remediation efforts.  

  • Social Media: ThreatNG monitors social media for mentions of your organization, identifying potential brand damage, data leaks, and phishing attempts.  

  • Sensitive Code Exposure: ThreatNG scans public code repositories for sensitive information, such as API keys, credentials, and configuration files. This helps prevent data breaches and unauthorized access.  

  • Cloud and SaaS Exposure: ThreatNG identifies and assesses your organization's cloud and SaaS assets, highlighting potential misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. This helps ensure your cloud environments are secure and compliant with security policies.  

  • Dark Web Presence: ThreatNG monitors the dark web for mentions of your organization, identifying potential threats like compromised credentials and ransomware attacks.  

By leveraging ThreatNG's comprehensive capabilities and integrating it with complementary solutions, you can build a robust CPM program that continuously improves your organization's security posture and reduces your risk of cyberattacks.