Digital Risk Protection
Digital Risk Protection (DRP) proactively identifies, assesses, and mitigates risks to an organization's digital assets and online presence. It involves monitoring various online channels and sources to detect potential threats, vulnerabilities, and brand-damaging activities.
DRP encompasses a wide range of activities, including:
Threat Monitoring: Continuously scanning the surface web, deep web, and dark web for mentions of the organization, its employees, or its brand to identify potential threats such as data leaks, phishing attacks, and social media impersonations.
Vulnerability Management: Identifying and assessing security weaknesses in the organization's digital infrastructure, such as websites, applications, and social media accounts, to prevent exploitation by attackers.
Brand Protection: Monitoring online channels for unauthorized use of the organization's trademarks, logos, and other intellectual property, as well as negative sentiment or misinformation that could damage the brand's reputation.
Data Leak Prevention: Detecting and responding to data breaches and leaks, both within the organization and on external platforms, to minimize the impact of data loss.
Social Media Monitoring: Tracking social media platforms for malicious activity, fake accounts, and negative comments that could harm the organization's reputation or spread misinformation.
Phishing and Malware Protection: Identifying and blocking phishing attacks, malware distribution, and other online scams that target the organization or its employees.
Compliance Monitoring: Ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and standards, such as GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA, to avoid legal and financial penalties.
DRP solutions often involve a combination of technology, people, and processes. Technology is crucial in automating data collection, analysis, and threat detection. Human expertise is essential for interpreting data, investigating potential threats, and making informed decisions about risk mitigation. Well-defined processes ensure that DRP activities are conducted consistently and effectively.
The benefits of DRP include:
Reduced risk of cyberattacks and data breaches: By proactively identifying and mitigating threats, organizations can reduce their vulnerability to cyberattacks and data breaches.
Improved brand reputation: By monitoring and responding to online threats, organizations can protect their brand reputation from damage caused by negative publicity, misinformation, and impersonation attempts.
Enhanced compliance: DRP helps organizations comply with relevant regulations and standards, reducing the risk of legal and financial penalties.
Increased business continuity: DRP helps ensure business continuity during a cyberattack or other disruption by protecting digital assets and online presence.
DRP is an essential component of any comprehensive cybersecurity strategy. By proactively addressing digital risks, organizations can protect their critical assets, maintain their brand reputation, and ensure business continuity in the face of an ever-evolving threat landscape.
ThreatNG’s capabilities align with various aspects of DRP:
Threat Monitoring: ThreatNG continuously monitors all organizations' external attack surface, digital risk, and security ratings. This includes scanning the deep and dark web for mentions of the organization, its employees, or its brand to identify potential threats like data leaks, phishing attacks, and social media impersonations.
Vulnerability Management: ThreatNG identifies and assesses security weaknesses in the organization’s digital infrastructure, including websites, applications, and social media accounts. It analyzes subdomains, DNS records, SSL certificates, and other factors to determine an organization’s susceptibility to subdomain takeover and other vulnerabilities.
Brand Protection: ThreatNG monitors online channels for unauthorized use of the organization’s trademarks, logos, and other intellectual property. It also assesses brand damage susceptibility by analyzing attack surface intelligence, digital risk intelligence, ESG factors, sentiment, financials, and domain intelligence.
Data Leak Prevention: ThreatNG helps detect and respond to data breaches and leaks by monitoring the dark web for mentions of the organization and analyzing sensitive code exposure.
Social Media Monitoring: ThreatNG tracks social media posts from the organization under investigation, analyzing the content copy, hashtags, links, and tags.
Phishing and Malware Protection: ThreatNG’s domain intelligence module analyzes email security presence (DMARC, SPF, DKIM records) and format predictions, which can help identify potential phishing attempts.
Compliance Monitoring: ThreatNG’s ESG Exposure module evaluates an organization’s vulnerability to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks.
ThreatNG Modules and Examples:
External Discovery: ThreatNG performs unauthenticated discovery of the external attack surface without requiring connectors. For example, it can discover subdomains, IP addresses, and certificates associated with an organization, even if they are not publicly documented.
External Assessment: ThreatNG provides various assessment ratings, including:
Web Application Hijack Susceptibility: Analyzes the parts of a web application accessible from the outside world to identify potential entry points for attackers. For example, it might identify a vulnerable web form that could be exploited for SQL injection.
Subdomain Takeover Susceptibility: Evaluates the likelihood of a subdomain takeover by analyzing DNS records, SSL certificates, and other factors. For example, it might flag a subdomain that points to a non-existent or expired domain, making it vulnerable to takeover.
BEC & Phishing Susceptibility: Assesses the organization’s susceptibility to Business Email Compromise (BEC) and phishing attacks by analyzing sentiment, financials, domain intelligence, and dark web presence. For example, it might identify a high volume of negative sentiment or financial distress, which could increase the likelihood of employees falling victim to phishing attacks.
Brand Damage Susceptibility: Evaluates the potential for brand damage by analyzing various factors, including attack surface intelligence, digital risk intelligence, ESG, sentiment, financials, and domain intelligence. For example, it might identify negative news articles or social media posts that could harm the organization’s reputation.
Data Leak Susceptibility: Assesses the risk of data leaks by analyzing cloud and SaaS exposure, dark web presence, domain intelligence, and sentiment and financials. For example, it might identify exposed sensitive ports or known vulnerabilities that could be exploited to steal data.
Reporting: ThreatNG offers various reports, including executive summaries, technical reports, prioritized reports, security ratings, inventory reports, ransomware susceptibility reports, and U.S. SEC filings reports. These reports provide insights into the organization’s digital risk profile and help prioritize mitigation efforts.
Continuous Monitoring: ThreatNG continuously monitors all organizations' external attack surface, digital risk, and security ratings. This helps identify new threats and vulnerabilities as they emerge, enabling organizations to take proactive measures to mitigate them.
Investigation Modules: ThreatNG provides various investigation modules, including:
Domain Intelligence: Provides detailed information about an organization’s domain, including DNS records, email security presence, WHOIS information, and subdomain intelligence. For example, it can identify subdomains that host sensitive information or are vulnerable to takeover.
IP Intelligence: Provides information about IP addresses associated with the organization, including shared IPs, ASNs, country locations, and private IPs.
Certificate Intelligence: Provides information about TLS certificates, including status, issuers, active certificates, and associated organizations.
Sensitive Code Exposure: Identifies exposed public code repositories and uncovers digital risks, including access credentials, database exposures, application data exposures, activity records, communication platform configurations, development environment configurations, security testing tools, cloud service configurations, remote access credentials, system utilities, personal data, user activity, and mobile apps.
Search Engine Exploitation: Investigates an organization’s susceptibility to exposing sensitive information via search engines.
Cloud and SaaS Exposure: Identifies sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud services, cloud service impersonations, and open exposed cloud buckets.
Online Sharing Exposure: Identifies organizational entity presence within online code-sharing platforms.
Sentiment and Financials: Analyzes organizational related lawsuits, layoff chatter, SEC filings, and ESG violations.
Archived Web Pages: Identifies archived web pages that may contain sensitive information.
Dark Web Presence: Monitors the dark web for mentions of the organization, associated ransomware events, and compromised credentials.
Intelligence Repositories: ThreatNG maintains various intelligence repositories, including dark web data, compromised credentials, ransomware events and groups, known vulnerabilities, ESG violations, bug bounty programs, SEC Form 8-Ks, and Bank Identification Numbers. These repositories provide valuable context for understanding and mitigating digital risks.
ThreatNG working with complementary solutions:
ThreatNG can work with complementary solutions to provide a comprehensive DRP solution. For example, ThreatNG can integrate with:
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions: to provide real-time visibility into security events and correlate them with ThreatNG’s findings.
Threat intelligence platforms: to enrich ThreatNG’s data with additional context and insights.
Vulnerability scanners: to identify and assess vulnerabilities in the organization’s internal systems.
Incident response platforms: to help organizations respond to and recover from security incidents.
By integrating these complementary solutions, ThreatNG can provide a more holistic view of the organization’s digital risk profile and enable more effective risk mitigation.
Examples of ThreatNG helping:
ThreatNG can help an organization identify a subdomain vulnerable to takeover and proactively take steps to mitigate the risk.
ThreatNG can help an organization identify sensitive data exposed online and take steps to remove it.
ThreatNG can help an organization monitor its brand reputation and respond to negative publicity.
Examples of ThreatNG working with complementary solutions:
ThreatNG can integrate with a SIEM solution to provide real-time alerts on security events correlated with ThreatNG’s findings.
ThreatNG can integrate with a threat intelligence platform to enrich its data with additional context, such as the attacker's identity or the motivation behind the attack.
ThreatNG can integrate with a vulnerability scanner to identify and assess vulnerabilities in an organization’s internal systems, providing a more comprehensive view of its security posture.
ThreatNG can integrate with an incident response platform to help organizations respond to and recover from security incidents more effectively.
