Tailored Threat Intelligence
Tailored Threat Intelligence in cybersecurity refers to collecting, analyzing, and disseminating threat information relevant to an organization's unique threat landscape. This involves understanding the organization's industry, assets, systems, and potential vulnerabilities to identify the most likely and impactful threats. Here's a breakdown of what makes it tailored:
Specific to the organization: It focuses on threats that are most likely to target the organization based on its profile rather than generic threats.
Actionable insights: It provides clear and concise information that can be used to make informed decisions about security measures.
A proactive approach helps organizations anticipate and prevent attacks before they occur rather than simply reacting to incidents.
Continuous process: It involves ongoing monitoring and analysis to keep up with the evolving threat landscape.
By using tailored threat intelligence, organizations can:
Prioritize resources: Focus on the most critical threats and vulnerabilities.
Improve detection and response: Enhance their ability to identify and respond to attacks.
Reduce risk: Minimize the likelihood and impact of successful cyberattacks.
Make informed decisions: Make better decisions about security investments and strategies.
Tailored threat intelligence is a crucial component of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, enabling organizations to defend against ever-growing cyber threats proactively.
ThreatNG is a powerful tool for generating and delivering tailored threat intelligence due to its comprehensive external discovery and assessment capabilities and its ability to customize threat data and prioritize vulnerabilities based on an organization's specific risk profile.
External Discovery and Assessment
ThreatNG's external discovery engine performs unauthenticated discovery to identify all internet-facing assets associated with an organization, providing a complete 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.
BEC & Phishing Susceptibility: ThreatNG analyzes various factors, such as domain intelligence, dark web presence, and sentiment and financials, to determine an organization's susceptibility to business email compromise (BEC) and phishing attacks. This allows organizations to prioritize implementing security controls to protect against these threats.
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.
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, technology stack, and cloud and SaaS exposure. This helps organizations prioritize mitigating risks associated with their external partners.
Customizing Threat Data and Prioritizing Vulnerabilities
ThreatNG allows organizations to customize threat data and prioritize vulnerabilities based on their risk profile. This includes:
Risk tolerance: Organizations can specify their risk tolerance, determining how aggressively they want to address vulnerabilities.
Critical assets: Organizations can identify their critical assets, which allows ThreatNG to prioritize vulnerabilities that could impact those assets.
Business objectives: Organizations can specify their business objectives, which allows ThreatNG to prioritize vulnerabilities that could impact those objectives.
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 intelligence and prioritize 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, which can then assess the bucket's security configuration and identify any misconfigurations.
By customizing threat data and prioritizing vulnerabilities based on an organization's specific risk profile, ThreatNG provides relevant and actionable threat intelligence that is tailored to the specific needs of each organization. This allows organizations to focus on the most critical threats and streamline their remediation efforts.
