Integrated Threat Intelligence
Integrated Threat Intelligence in cybersecurity involves combining threat intelligence from various sources and integrating it into security tools and workflows. This integration aims to provide a more comprehensive and actionable view of the threat landscape, empowering organizations to make informed security decisions, prioritize resources effectively, and respond to cyber threats with greater agility.
Here's a breakdown of the key characteristics of Integrated Threat Intelligence:
Comprehensive: Integrated Threat Intelligence aggregates data from various sources, including open-source intelligence (OSINT), commercial threat intelligence feeds, government advisories, and internal security data.
Contextual: It enriches raw threat data with context specific to the organization. This includes factors such as the organization's industry, critical assets, known vulnerabilities, and unique threat profile.
Actionable: It transforms raw threat data into actionable insights that can be directly applied to improve security controls, proactively detect and respond to threats, and ultimately prevent attacks.
Automated: It leverages automation to streamline the collection, analysis, and dissemination of threat intelligence, enhancing efficiency and scalability.
By using Integrated Threat Intelligence, organizations can achieve several important benefits:
Improve Situational Awareness: Organizations gain a more complete and nuanced understanding of the prevailing threat landscape and the specific risks they face.
Enhance Threat Detection and Response: Integrated Threat Intelligence enables organizations to identify and respond to threats more rapidly and effectively, minimizing potential damage.
Optimize Security Controls: Organizations can make more informed decisions about security investments and resource allocation, ensuring that resources are strategically deployed.
Strengthen Cyber Resilience: Integrated Threat Intelligence builds a more robust and resilient security posture, enabling organizations to better withstand and recover from cyberattacks.
ThreatNG is a robust platform that significantly enhances Integrated Threat Intelligence due to its robust external discovery and assessment capabilities. Coupled with its ability to aggregate and analyze threat intelligence from diverse sources, ThreatNG equips organizations with a holistic view of the threat landscape and facilitates risk-based prioritization of vulnerabilities.
External Discovery and Assessment
ThreatNG's external discovery engine performs purely external, unauthenticated discovery to identify all internet-facing assets associated with an organization. This provides a comprehensive view of the attack surface from an attacker's perspective. The platform then conducts external assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities and security risks.
Examples of ThreatNG's External Assessment Capabilities:
BEC & Phishing Susceptibility: ThreatNG analyzes various factors, including domain intelligence, dark web presence (Compromised Credentials), and sentiment and financials, to accurately assess an organization's susceptibility to business email compromise (BEC) and phishing attacks. This assessment empowers organizations to prioritize the implementation of robust security controls to defend effectively against these pervasive threats.
Brand Damage Susceptibility: ThreatNG evaluates the potential for brand damage by analyzing attack surface intelligence, digital risk intelligence, ESG violations, sentiment and financials (Lawsuits, SEC filings, SEC Form 8-Ks, and Negative News), and domain intelligence (Domain Name Permutations and Web3 Domains that are available and taken). This assessment enables organizations to prioritize addressing vulnerabilities and risks that could negatively impact their brand reputation.
Supply Chain & Third-Party Exposure: ThreatNG assesses the security posture of an organization's supply chain and third-party vendors by analyzing their domain intelligence (Enumeration of Vendor Technologies from DNS and Subdomains), technology stack, and cloud and SaaS exposure. This capability helps organizations prioritize mitigating risks associated with their external partners and dependencies.
Breach & Ransomware Susceptibility: ThreatNG evaluates the likelihood of a breach or ransomware attack by analyzing external attack surface and digital risk intelligence, which includes domain intelligence (exposed sensitive ports, exposed private IPs, and known vulnerabilities), dark web presence (compromised credentials and ransomware events and gang activity), and sentiment and financials (SEC Form 8-Ks). This assessment empowers organizations to prioritize patching critical vulnerabilities and implementing robust security controls to reduce risk exposure.
Integrating Threat Intelligence from Various Sources
ThreatNG excels at integrating threat intelligence from a wide array of sources to provide enriched context and enhance threat detection:
Dark Web: ThreatNG monitors the dark web for mentions of the organization, associated ransomware events, and compromised credentials. This proactive monitoring provides early warnings of potential threats and data breaches.
Known Vulnerabilities: ThreatNG maintains an extensive database of known vulnerabilities, including their associated CVSS scores. This database enables organizations to prioritize patching efforts based on the severity of vulnerabilities.
ESG Violations: ThreatNG tracks environmental, social, and governance (ESG) violations, providing valuable out-of-band indicators for assessing an organization's overall risk profile.
SEC Filings: ThreatNG analyzes SEC filings of publicly traded US companies, particularly their Risk and Oversight Disclosures and SEC Form 8-Ks, to identify potential risks and red flags.
Social Media: ThreatNG monitors social media platforms for mentions of the organization and potential threats, enabling early detection of reputational risks and emerging attacks.
This comprehensive threat intelligence is seamlessly integrated into ThreatNG's assessments and reports, providing organizations with a holistic and contextualized view of the threat landscape.
Prioritizing Threats Based on Risk Profile
ThreatNG empowers organizations to define their risk profile by customizing risk configurations and scoring to align with their specific risk tolerance, critical assets, and business objectives. This customization enables ThreatNG to prioritize vulnerabilities and threats based on their potential impact on the organization.
For example, an organization in the financial industry may prioritize patching vulnerabilities that could lead to fraud or data breaches. In contrast, healthcare organizations may prioritize patching vulnerabilities that could expose protected health information (PHI).
Reporting, Continuous Monitoring, and Investigation Modules
ThreatNG provides a suite of powerful tools to help organizations understand and respond to potential threats:
Reporting: ThreatNG offers a variety of customizable reports, including executive summaries, technical reports, prioritized reports, security ratings, inventory reports, ransomware susceptibility assessments, and U.S. SEC filing analyses. These reports deliver actionable insights into an organization's security posture and facilitate effective prioritization of remediation efforts.
Continuous Monitoring: ThreatNG continuously monitors the external attack surface, digital risk, and security ratings, enabling organizations to detect changes in their security environment proactively and respond to emerging threats.
Investigation Modules: ThreatNG provides a suite of in-depth investigation modules that empower security teams to conduct detailed analyses of specific threats and vulnerabilities:
Domain Intelligence: This module provides a wealth of information about domains, including DNS records, email security configurations, WHOIS data, subdomain analysis, and associated technologies.
Sensitive Code Exposure: This module discovers and analyzes exposed code repositories to uncover sensitive information, such as API keys and credentials, and potential vulnerabilities.
Cloud and SaaS Exposure: This module identifies sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud services, SaaS applications, and potential misconfigurations that could lead to data leaks or unauthorized access.
Dark Web Presence: This module monitors the dark web for mentions of the organization, ransomware events, and compromised credentials, providing early warnings of potential threats.
Intelligence Repositories and Complementary Solutions
ThreatNG leverages extensive intelligence repositories that aggregate data on:
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This rich data provides valuable context for threat analysis and empowers ThreatNG to deliver tailored threat intelligence, enabling organizations to prioritize the most critical threats effectively.
ThreatNG is designed to integrate seamlessly with complementary security solutions, enhancing its capabilities and fostering a holistic security ecosystem:
SIEM (Security Information and Event Management): ThreatNG's external threat intelligence can enrich SIEM alerts, providing valuable context and improving threat detection accuracy.
Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs): ThreatNG can share and correlate threat intelligence with TIPs, enabling more comprehensive threat analysis and response.
Vulnerability Management: ThreatNG's external vulnerability assessments can supplement internal vulnerability scans, delivering a more comprehensive view of an organization's vulnerability posture.
Examples of ThreatNG Helping and Working with Complementary Solutions:
ThreatNG can identify a vulnerable web application and provide detailed vulnerability information to a SIEM system, generating a high-priority alert and triggering automated patching workflows.
ThreatNG can detect compromised credentials on the dark web and share this intelligence with a Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP). The TIP can then correlate this information with other threat data and proactively block malicious login attempts.
ThreatNG can discover an exposed cloud storage bucket and provide this finding to a vulnerability scanner, which can assess the bucket's access permissions and identify sensitive data at risk.
By integrating threat intelligence from various sources and prioritizing threats based on the organization's risk profile, ThreatNG empowers organizations to adopt a proactive and intelligence-driven approach to cybersecurity. This approach ensures that security resources are strategically allocated to mitigate the most critical threats effectively.
