Data and Credential Leakage Monitoring

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Data and credential leakage monitoring is a critical cybersecurity use case focusing on detecting and preventing the unauthorized exposure of sensitive information such as confidential data, intellectual property, and access credentials. This proactive approach helps organizations identify vulnerabilities and mitigate the risk of data breaches, reputational damage, and financial loss.   

How ThreatNG Helps with Data and Credential Leakage Monitoring

ThreatNG's comprehensive suite of capabilities provides robust support for data and credential leakage monitoring:  

1. Superior Discovery and Assessment Capabilities:

  • Data Leak Susceptibility: ThreatNG actively scans for and identifies potential data leaks across your digital assets, including exposed databases, cloud storage buckets, and code repositories.  

  • Compromised Credentials: ThreatNG's intelligence repositories track compromised credentials from various sources, allowing you to identify if your organization's credentials have been exposed in previous breaches.  

  • Sensitive Code Exposure: ThreatNG's code analysis capabilities can detect hardcoded secrets, API keys, and other sensitive information within your codebase, alerting you to potential leaks.  

2. Continuous Monitoring:

  • Continuous Monitoring: ThreatNG monitors your external attack surface for new vulnerabilities and exposures, including data leaks and credential compromises.  

  • Dark web monitoring: ThreatNG scours the dark web for mentions of your organization, leaked data, and compromised credentials, providing early warnings of potential threats.  

3. Reporting:

  • Prioritized reporting: ThreatNG provides prioritized reports highlighting critical data leakage and credential compromise risks, enabling you to focus on the most urgent issues.  

  • Ransomware Susceptibility reports help you understand your organization's susceptibility to ransomware attacks, which often exploit leaked credentials and data.  

4. Collaboration and Management Facilities:

  • Dynamically generated Correlation Evidence Questionnaires: These questionnaires facilitate efficient communication and collaboration among security teams, enabling rapid response to data leakage incidents.  

  • Policy Management: Customizable risk configuration and scoring allow you to tailor your security policies to your organization's specific needs and risk tolerance.  

5. Investigation Modules and Capabilities:

  • Domain Intelligence: Helps identify exposed APIs, development environments, and other potential entry points for data leakage.  

  • Sensitive Code Exposure: Uncovers exposed public code repositories containing access credentials, database exposures, application data exposures, and other sensitive information.  

  • Search Engine Exploitation: Identifies potential data leaks through search engine queries, including exposed sensitive information, privileged folders, and susceptible files.  

  • Cloud and SaaS Exposure: Detects open and exposed cloud buckets and misconfigured SaaS implementations that could lead to data leaks.  

  • Online Sharing Exposure: Identifies organizational presence within online code-sharing platforms that may inadvertently expose sensitive data.  

  • Dark Web Presence: Uncovers mentions of your organization and associated compromised credentials on the dark web.  

Complementary Solutions and Services:

ThreatNG can be further enhanced by integrating with complementary solutions and services, such as:

  • Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems: To correlate ThreatNG's findings with other security events and improve incident response.  

  • Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions: To actively prevent sensitive data from leaving your organization's network.  

  • Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions: To enforce strong authentication and authorization controls, reducing the risk of credential misuse.  

  • Penetration testing and vulnerability assessments: Identify and address vulnerabilities that could lead to data leakage.  

Examples:

  • ThreatNG identifies an exposed AWS S3 bucket containing sensitive customer data through its Cloud and SaaS Exposure module. The security team uses the dynamically generated Correlation Evidence Questionnaires to gather information and quickly remediate exposure.  

  • ThreatNG detects compromised employee credentials on the dark web through its Dark Web Presence module. The security team uses this information to force password resets and implement multi-factor authentication to prevent unauthorized access.  

  • ThreatNG's Sensitive Code Exposure module identifies API keys and database credentials hardcoded in a public GitHub repository. The organization immediately removes the sensitive information and reviews its code security practices.  

By leveraging ThreatNG's comprehensive capabilities and integrating with complementary solutions, organizations can establish a robust data and credential leakage monitoring program to protect their sensitive information and maintain a strong security posture.