Proactive External Risk Mitigation
Proactive External Risk Mitigation involves taking preventative actions to reduce cybersecurity risks outside an organization's control.
Here's a breakdown of the key aspects:
Proactive Approach: Instead of reacting to attacks or incidents, organizations actively seek to identify and address potential risks before they can be exploited.
External Focus: The emphasis is on risks that exist in the external environment, such as:
Threats from the internet.
Risks associated with third-party vendors and the supply chain.
Activities on the dark web.
Social engineering attacks.
Mitigation Actions: These are steps taken to reduce the likelihood or impact of external risks. Examples include:
Identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems.
Monitoring for potential data leaks and taking action to contain them.
Assessing the security practices of third-party vendors and ensuring they meet security requirements.
Implementing brand protection measures to prevent phishing and impersonation attacks.
Using threat intelligence to anticipate and prepare for emerging threats.
Goal: The ultimate goal is to minimize the organization's attack surface and reduce the potential for successful cyberattacks by taking preemptive action.
ThreatNG empowers proactive external risk mitigation by providing organizations with the tools to identify, assess, and address potential external risks before they can be exploited.
External Discovery: ThreatNG's external discovery capabilities are fundamental to proactive risk mitigation. By performing purely external unauthenticated discovery, ThreatNG allows organizations to see their attack surface as an attacker would, enabling them to identify potential vulnerabilities before they are exploited.
External Assessment: ThreatNG's various risk assessments enable proactive mitigation by highlighting areas that need attention. Examples include:
It assesses Web Application Hijack Susceptibility and Subdomain Takeover Susceptibility, allowing organizations to secure their web presence proactively.
It evaluates BEC & Phishing Susceptibility, Brand Damage Susceptibility, and Data Leak Susceptibility, enabling organizations to take preemptive action to protect themselves from these threats.
It determines Cyber Risk Exposure and assesses ESG Exposure and Supply Chain & Third-Party Exposure, providing insights that allow organizations to manage a wide range of external risks proactively.
It calculates Breach and Ransomware Susceptibility and assesses Mobile App Exposure, giving organizations the information they need to defend against potentially damaging attacks proactively.
Reporting: ThreatNG's reporting capabilities provide actionable insights that drive proactive mitigation. Reports such as Executive, Technical, and Prioritized help organizations understand their risk posture and prioritize mitigation efforts.
Continuous Monitoring: ThreatNG's monitoring of external attack surface, digital risk, and security ratings is essential for proactive risk mitigation. It ensures that organizations are aware of emerging threats and changes in their risk profile, allowing them to take timely action.
Investigation Modules: ThreatNG's investigation modules provide detailed information that enables proactive risk mitigation:
Domain Intelligence: Provides a broad overview and detailed analysis of various aspects of domains.
IP Intelligence: Provides information on IPs, Shared IPs, ASNs, Country Locations, and Private IPs.
Certificate Intelligence: Provides information on TLS Certificates and Associated Organizations.
Social Media: Gathers posts from the organization under investigation.
Sensitive Code Exposure: Discovers public code repositories and uncovers digital risks.
Mobile Application Discovery: Discovers mobile apps and analyzes their contents.
Search Engine Exploitation: Helps users investigate an organization’s susceptibility to exposing information via search engines.
Cloud and SaaS Exposure: Identifies sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud services, cloud service impersonations, and exposed cloud buckets, and covers SaaS implementations.
Online Sharing Exposure: Identifies organizational entity presence within online code-sharing platforms.
Sentiment and Financials: Covers organizational-related lawsuits, layoff chatter, SEC filings, SEC Form 8-Ks, and ESG violations.
Archived Web Pages: Provides access to archived web pages.
Dark Web Presence: Covers organizational mentions, associated ransomware events, and compromised credentials.
Technology Stack: Identifies the technologies used by the organization.
Intelligence Repositories: ThreatNG uses intelligence repositories, including data on the dark web, compromised credentials, ransomware events and groups, known vulnerabilities, ESG violations, bug bounty programs, SEC Form 8-Ks, Bank Identification Numbers, and Mobile Apps. These repositories provide a wealth of information that can be used for proactive risk mitigation.
Work with Complementary Solutions: While the document does not detail specific integrations, ThreatNG's capabilities can complement other security tools and contribute to a proactive security posture. For example, its threat intelligence and vulnerability data can be valuable for SIEM and SOAR systems, enabling proactive threat detection and response.
