Proactive Threat Prioritization in cybersecurity refers to identifying and ranking potential threats based on their likelihood and possible impact on an organization before those threats are exploited. This approach allows security teams to focus their resources and efforts on mitigating the most critical threats, reducing the likelihood of a successful attack and minimizing potential damage.

Here's a breakdown of what makes Proactive Threat Prioritization distinct:

• Predictive: It uses threat intelligence, vulnerability assessments, and risk analysis to anticipate future threats and prioritize them accordingly.

• Contextual: It considers the specific threat landscape the organization faces, including the types of attackers likely to target them, their motivations, and the potential impact of an attack on the organization's critical assets.

• Dynamic: It continuously adapts to changes in the threat landscape and the organization's environment, ensuring security efforts remain relevant and practical.

• Actionable: It provides clear and concise information that can be used to make informed decisions about security measures and resource allocation.

By using Proactive Threat Prioritization, organizations can:

• Reduce risk: Focus on mitigating the most critical threats and vulnerabilities.

• Improve efficiency: Optimize security resources and avoid wasting time on low-priority issues.

• Enhance decision-making: Make informed decisions about security investments and strategies.

• Increase agility: Respond quickly to changes in the threat landscape and the organization's environment.

Proactive Threat Prioritization is a crucial component of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, enabling organizations to take a proactive and targeted approach to defend against cyber threats.

ThreatNG is a powerful solution for Proactive Threat Prioritization due to its comprehensive external discovery and assessment capabilities and ability to consider the organization's risk profile. This allows organizations to identify and prioritize the most critical threats facing their external attack surface, enabling them to focus their remediation efforts effectively.

External Discovery and Assessment

ThreatNG's external discovery engine performs unauthenticated discovery to identify all internet-facing assets associated with an organization, providing a comprehensive view of the attack surface from an external perspective. The platform then conducts assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities and security risks.

Examples of ThreatNG's External Assessment Capabilities:

• Web Application Hijack Susceptibility: ThreatNG analyzes the externally accessible parts of a web application, such as subdomains, DNS records, and SSL certificates, to identify potential vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit. This allows organizations to prioritize securing these vulnerabilities and prevent attackers from hijacking their web applications.

• Brand Damage Susceptibility: ThreatNG assesses the potential for brand damage by analyzing various factors, including sentiment analysis of media coverage, financial analysis, and dark web presence. This helps organizations prioritize addressing issues that could negatively impact their brand reputation.

• Data Leak Susceptibility: ThreatNG evaluates the risk of data leaks by examining cloud and SaaS exposure, dark web presence, and domain intelligence. This helps organizations prioritize securing their sensitive information and preventing data breaches.

• Cyber Risk Exposure: ThreatNG considers various factors, including exposed sensitive ports, known vulnerabilities, and compromised credentials, to determine an organization's overall cyber risk exposure. This helps organizations prioritize addressing their systems' and data's most critical risks.

Prioritizing Threats Based on Risk Profile

ThreatNG allows organizations to define risk profiles by specifying their risk tolerance, critical assets, and business objectives. This information prioritizes vulnerabilities based on the likelihood and potential impact of exploitation.

For example, an organization with a low-risk tolerance may prioritize patching all vulnerabilities, regardless of severity. On the other hand, an organization with a higher risk tolerance may prioritize patching only the most critical vulnerabilities that could lead to significant business disruption.

Reporting, Continuous Monitoring, and Investigation Modules

ThreatNG provides detailed reports, continuous monitoring, and powerful investigation modules to help organizations understand and respond to potential threats.

Reporting: ThreatNG offers a variety of reports, including executive summaries, technical reports, prioritized reports, security ratings, inventory reports, ransomware susceptibility reports, and U.S. SEC filings. These reports provide valuable insights into an organization's security posture and help prioritize remediation efforts.

Continuous Monitoring: ThreatNG monitors an organization's external attack surface, digital risk, and security ratings. This allows organizations to stay ahead of emerging threats and respond quickly to any changes in their security environment.

Investigation Modules: ThreatNG provides in-depth investigation modules that allow security teams to drill down into specific threats and vulnerabilities. These modules include:

• Domain Intelligence: Provides comprehensive information about a domain, including DNS records, email security, WHOIS data, subdomain analysis, and associated technologies.

• Sensitive Code Exposure: Identifies exposed code repositories and analyzes their contents for sensitive data, such as API keys, access tokens, and database credentials. 

• Cloud and SaaS Exposure: Evaluate the security of cloud services and SaaS applications, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and various SaaS providers. 

• Dark Web Presence: Monitors the dark web for mentions of the organization, associated ransomware events, and compromised credentials.

Intelligence Repositories and Complementary Solutions

ThreatNG maintains extensive intelligence repositories, including information on dark web activities, compromised credentials, ransomware events, known vulnerabilities, ESG violations, etc. This rich data helps ThreatNG provide tailored threat intelligence and prioritize the most critical threats.

ThreatNG also integrates with complementary solutions to enhance its capabilities and provide a more comprehensive security solution. For example, ThreatNG can integrate with security information and event management (SIEM) systems, threat intelligence platforms (TIPs), and vulnerability scanners to provide a more holistic view of an organization's security posture.

Examples of ThreatNG Helping and Working with Complementary Solutions:

• ThreatNG can identify a vulnerable web application and provide detailed information about the vulnerability to a SIEM system, which can then generate an alert and trigger automated response actions.

• ThreatNG can identify a compromised credential on the dark web and share this information with a TIP, which can then correlate it with other threat intelligence and provide context for security analysts.

• ThreatNG can identify an exposed cloud bucket and provide this information to a vulnerability scanner to assess the bucket's security configuration and identify any misconfigurations.

By incorporating the organization's risk profile into its threat prioritization process, ThreatNG enables organizations to take a proactive and targeted approach to cybersecurity, ensuring that their resources are focused on mitigating the most critical threats.