ThreatNG is thrilled to announce a significant update with powerful new features and enhancements to elevate your external attack surface management, digital risk protection, and security ratings capabilities. This release introduces two new intelligence repositories, expands API access, improves the user interface, and integrates valuable data into vulnerability prioritization and security ratings. Explore the exciting advancements that will empower your organization to address emerging threats and fortify its security posture proactively.

Intelligence Repositories (New)

Bug Bounty Programs (DarCache Bug Bounty)

Proactively Reduce Your Attack Surface with Bug Bounty Intelligence

ThreatNG has unveiled the Bug Bounty Intelligence Repository, known as DarCache Bug Bounty. This extensive and continuously updated collection of bug bounty programs is a crucial solution for organizations to manage their external attack surfaces effectively. By gaining insights into the scope and focus of bug bounty initiatives, organizations can better recognize and address vulnerabilities that ethical hackers may exploit.

The Bug Bounty Intelligence Repository provides several significant advantages, such as reducing attack surfaces, prioritizing vulnerabilities, competitive intelligence, and collaborating with cybersecurity researchers. Security teams can use this information to manage vulnerabilities proactively, while risk management teams can improve risk assessments and make informed decisions based on data.

Organizations can enhance security by correlating the Bug Bounty Intelligence Repository results with ThreatNG's investigation modules. This integration allows for correlating domain details with bug bounty program information, prioritizing code analysis to address sensitive information exposure, and monitoring vulnerabilities in cloud services and SaaS applications related to bug bounty programs. This critical addition solidifies ThreatNG's status as a top-tier solution for managing external attack surfaces and safeguarding digital assets.

SEC Form 8-Ks (DarCache 8-K)

Gain Early Warning of Emerging Risks with 8-K Intelligence

The latest update introduces the SEC Form 8-K Intelligence Repository (DarCache 8-K), a robust resource offering a structured and searchable database of SEC Form 8-K filings. These filings, submitted by publicly traded companies in the U.S., reveal significant events that may significantly influence an organization's risk profile, such as cybersecurity incidents, financial distress, and legal troubles.

This repository enhances ThreatNG's functionality in several critical ways. First, it serves as an early warning system, enabling organizations to proactively pinpoint and mitigate potential threats by scrutinizing 8-K filings for warning signs. Second, it bolsters due diligence by granting access to extensive information on publicly traded companies and supporting informed decision-making regarding investments, partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions.

Moreover, the 8-K Intelligence Repository enriches risk assessment by providing crucial context to understand an organization's risk profile better. ThreatNG harnesses this data to refine risk evaluations and deliver more precise and actionable insights. Lastly, ThreatNG continually monitors 8-K filings for pertinent information, helping organizations remain alert to significant changes and respond swiftly to newly emerging risks.

This valuable resource benefits stakeholders, including risk management teams, investment analysts, and security personnel. By correlating 8-K data with existing ThreatNG investigation modules—such as Sentiment and Financials, Dark Web Presence, and Domain Intelligence—organizations can achieve a holistic view of their external attack surface and make well-informed decisions regarding their security strategies.

Investigation Modules (Updated)

Domain Intelligence > Bug Bounty

Prioritize Vulnerabilities and Improve Security Posture with Bug Bounty Intelligence

Recognizing the presence and extent of a bug bounty program is essential for assessing domain intelligence and security posture. An organization with a bug bounty program demonstrates a proactive approach to security, signaling which specific assets security researchers are examining for vulnerabilities. This insight enables security teams to prioritize their work, concentrating on in-scope assets and comprehensively evaluating exposed APIs, known vulnerabilities, and web application firewalls.

Conversely, a bug bounty program may indicate potential weaknesses in the organization's security stance. It would require a more profound analysis of domain name permutations and a closer look at exposed development environments. By understanding where security researchers are likely to direct their attention, organizations can better gauge the severity of vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation efforts.

Ultimately, intelligence from a bug bounty program bolsters external attack surface management and digital risk protection initiatives, empowering organizations to mitigate vulnerabilities and proactively strengthen their overall security posture.

Sentiment and Financials > 8-K

Enhance External Attack Surface Management with SEC Filings Insights

Grasping the details in an organization's SEC Form 8-K filings is essential for effective sentiment and financial analysis. These filings play a significant role in managing external attack surfaces and digital risk protection. They serve as an early warning system, revealing cybersecurity incidents, financial troubles, legal challenges, and other occurrences that could adversely affect an organization's risk profile. For example, an 8-K indicating a vendor's data breach enables proactive investigations into one's vulnerabilities and bolsters security measures.

Additionally, 8-K filings outline various risk elements by outlining legal actions, regulatory responses, and risk management strategies. This data enhances due diligence processes, particularly when assessing potential mergers, acquisitions, or investments. Organizations can make knowledgeable decisions and lessen risks by evaluating a target company's financial stability, legal position, and security framework.

8-K filings offer a crucial context for sentiment analysis, assisting in evaluating layoff rumors, negative press, and social media reactions. They can also uncover ESG-related issues, such as environmental infractions or labor conflicts, which may influence an organization's reputation and risk profile. By integrating 8-K insights into external attack surface management and digital risk protection strategies, organizations can proactively tackle threats, make informed choices, and enhance their overall security resilience.

Security Ratings (Susceptibility and eXposures)

Brand Damage, Breach and Ransomware, and Data Leakage Susceptibility

8-K Analysis Enhances Security Rating Accuracy

SEC Form 8-K analysis is now integrated into ThreatNG’s Susceptibility and eXposure Security Ratings, significantly enhancing its ability to assess and predict brand damage, data leak susceptibility, and breach/ransomware risks. By analyzing 8-K disclosures of cybersecurity incidents, legal issues, and financial distress, ThreatNG provides early warnings of reputational risks and helps organizations proactively mitigate potential brand damage. This information empowers public relations teams, marketing teams, and investors to make informed decisions and protect brand value.

Furthermore, the 8-K analysis provides valuable insights into data security practices and cybersecurity posture. Disclosures of past incidents, data security infrastructure, and security investments help assess data leak susceptibility and breach/ransomware risks. It enables data security teams, compliance officers, and security operation centers to strengthen data protection measures, improve incident response capabilities, and proactively address potential vulnerabilities. By incorporating 8-K data, ThreatNG delivers a more comprehensive risk assessment, empowering organizations to manage their external digital risks and safeguard their reputation effectively.

Assessment (eXposure Priority)

Enhanced Risk Assessment with Integrated 8-K and Bug Bounty Data

SEC Form 8-K filings and Bug Bounty Program information have now been integrated into its prioritized vulnerability presentation (eXposure Priority), providing crucial context and improving risk assessment. This enhancement empowers security analysts to prioritize vulnerabilities based on past incidents disclosed in 8-Ks and to focus on high-value targets identified by bug bounty programs. For example, a high-severity vulnerability in a previously compromised system would receive immediate attention.

Furthermore, this integration provides risk managers valuable context for understanding an organization's overall risk profile and enables data-driven decision-making for CISOs and security leadership. By combining 8-K insights, bug bounty program information, and prioritized vulnerability data, security teams can effectively allocate resources, communicate risks to stakeholders, and strengthen the organization's defenses against cyber threats.

User Interface and User Experience Enhancements

Streamline Security Assessments with an Enhanced UI/UX

Improved user interface and experience for "Discovery and Assessment" results have enhanced how users engage with and grasp essential findings. The user-friendly design showcases prioritized results accompanied by clear explanations, supporting evidence, and actionable insights, facilitating efficient triage and investigation. Additionally, flexible reporting, export options, and API access integrate these findings seamlessly into existing workflows. This equips security analysts, risk managers, CISOs, and developers to rapidly understand, communicate, and address potential risks, ultimately bolstering the organization's security stance and minimizing cyber threat exposure.

API Enhancements

Expanded API Access to Executive Summaries, Technical Details, and Prioritized Exposures

Seamlessly Integrate ThreatNG Data with Your Security Ecosystem

This latest update also significantly enhances API functionalities, granting broader access to features like Executive Summary reports, Technical Details, prioritized exposures, and comprehensive inventory summaries. This improved access facilitates more detailed data retrieval, allowing for personalized analysis, reporting, and smooth integration with existing security workflows, SIEMs, and various security tools.

Security professionals can now use the ThreatNG API to automate critical security tasks, including gathering domain intelligence, detecting sensitive code exposure, monitoring cloud security, and analyzing dark web presence. By merging ThreatNG's extensive data with internal systems, security teams can optimize threat investigations, manage vulnerabilities, and respond to incidents, enhancing their security posture and helping them proactively counteract cyber threats.

Integrate Security Ratings Data with Ease

Automate Security Assessments with the Security Ratings API

With this latest update, ThreatNG further improved its API, providing programmatic access to security ratings for susceptibility and exposure. This enables security analysts, risk managers, and third-party risk management teams to automate data gathering, incorporate ratings into their workflows, and make well-informed decisions regarding security investments. Real-time insights promote proactive risk management and enhance efficiency by automating security evaluations.

Through these API upgrades, organizations can better understand their external attack surfaces, pinpoint and address potential risks, and bolster their overall security stance. Notable use cases include integrating with CI/CD pipelines to assess web application hijack susceptibility, linking BEC and phishing susceptibility to employee training efforts, and automating vendor risk evaluations using supply chain and third-party exposure scores.