Cyber resilience is an organization's ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises on systems enabled by cyber resources.  

Cyber resilience is the capacity to continue operations and deliver intended outcomes despite cyberattacks or other disruptions. It encompasses a proactive approach to cybersecurity that focuses on preventing breaches, minimizing their impact, and ensuring swift recovery.  

Key aspects of cyber resilience include:

• Anticipation: Proactively identifying and assessing potential threats and vulnerabilities.  

• Withstanding: Implementing strong defenses and safeguards to resist attacks and minimize damage.  

• Recovery: Having plans and capabilities to restore critical systems and data after an incident quickly.  

• Adaptation: Learning from incidents and continuously improving security measures to address evolving threats.  

Cyber resilience goes beyond traditional cybersecurity measures. It integrates cybersecurity with business continuity, disaster recovery, and organizational resilience to create a holistic approach to managing cyber risks. By prioritizing cyber resilience, organizations can better protect their critical assets and maintain operations despite cyberattacks.   

How ThreatNG Bolsters Cyber Resilience

Anticipation & Withstanding:

• Continuous External Attack Surface Management: ThreatNG's discovery modules ceaselessly scan the digital landscape to uncover vulnerabilities and exposures across an organization's attack surface. This includes:

• Domain Intelligence: Uncovers subdomains, misconfigurations, and exposed services.

• Cloud & SaaS Exposure: Identifies shadow IT, misconfigured cloud storage, and insecure SaaS apps.

• Sensitive Code Exposure: Detects leaked credentials and API keys in public repositories.

By proactively identifying these weaknesses, ThreatNG allows organizations to remediate them before they're exploited, significantly reducing the likelihood of successful attacks.

• Digital Risk Protection: Goes beyond technical vulnerabilities by assessing an organization's susceptibility to various threats:

• BEC & Phishing: Analyzes social media and email patterns to gauge scam susceptibility.

• Brand Damage & Data Leak: Monitors dark web chatter and sentiment analysis to identify risks.

This allows proactive measures like employee training and reputation management to mitigate potential damage.

Recovery:

• Intelligence Repositories: ThreatNG maintains up-to-date information on:

• Compromised Credentials: Helps quickly identify accounts that need to be secured after a breach.

• Ransomware Events: Provides insights into current attack trends for better incident response planning.

This knowledge enables faster and more effective recovery by having critical information readily available.

Adaptation:

• Continuous Monitoring & Reporting: ThreatNG's ongoing scans and detailed reports provide organizations with the insights needed to:

• Identify trends and patterns: Understand evolving attack vectors and adjust security strategies accordingly.

• Measure the effectiveness of security controls: Make data-driven decisions to improve defenses over time.

This continuous feedback loop ensures that the organization's security posture remains adaptive and resilient to an ever-changing threat landscape.

Working with Complementary Solutions

ThreatNG acts as a powerful force multiplier by feeding its rich intelligence into other security tools:

• Vulnerability Management: ThreatNG's findings can be directly integrated to prioritize remediation efforts based on real-world exposure.

• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM): Enhances threat detection and incident response capabilities with external attack surface context.

• Threat Intelligence Platforms: Augments existing threat data with ThreatNG's unique insights on BEC, brand risk, and data leaks.

Example Scenarios

• Subdomain Takeover: ThreatNG's Domain Intelligence module discovers an expired subdomain. The organization takes action before attackers leverage it for phishing or malware distribution.

• Data Leak: ThreatNG identifies sensitive customer data exposed on a Pastebin-like platform (Online Sharing Exposure). The leak is contained, and affected customers are notified, mitigating potential damage.

• Supply Chain Risk: ThreatNG's Security Ratings reveal a critical vulnerability in a third-party vendor. The organization proactively works with the vendor to address the issue, preventing a potential breach.

ThreatNG's comprehensive capabilities and focus on continuous discovery and assessment equip organizations to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to cyber threats, forming a robust foundation for cyber resilience.

Organizations can confidently navigate the complex cybersecurity landscape by proactively addressing vulnerabilities, mitigating risks, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.