In cybersecurity, an IP Reputation rating evaluates the trustworthiness of an IP address by assessing its likelihood of involvement in malicious activities such as spamming or malware distribution. This rating considers historical data, known associations with cyber threats, blacklisting status, and indicators of compromise. Its purpose is to identify potentially compromised or malicious IPs that could threaten an organization's security and guide actions to mitigate risks and maintain a secure online presence.

ThreatNG Security Ratings provides a more comprehensive and validated IP Reputation assessment by integrating advanced external attack surface management and digital risk protection capabilities, including the latest intelligence.

• Comprehensive External Visibility: ThreatNG offers complete visibility into an organization's digital presence, including all associated IP addresses, through its External Discovery module. This module performs purely external, unauthenticated discovery without requiring connectors, ensuring all relevant IPs are considered for a more accurate rating.

• Deep Domain and Dark Web Intelligence: The Domain Intelligence module gathers extensive insights about an organization's domains and associated IP addresses. Additionally, Dark Web Presence monitoring identifies associations with malicious behavior, including mentions of an organization's IP addresses in dark web discussions or activities. This significantly enhances the fidelity and validity of the IP Reputation rating.

• Contextualized Risk from Sentiment and Financials: ThreatNG's Sentiment and Financials modules analyze sentiments and financial indicators. By examining negative news, lawsuits, SEC filings (including DarCache 8-K), and other economic data, ThreatNG identifies potential risks that could impact IP Reputation, providing valuable context and validation to the rating.

• Proactive Vulnerability and Breach Susceptibility Inspection: ThreatNG includes Breach & Ransomware Susceptibility ratings, derived from external attack surface and digital risk intelligence, including domain intelligence (exposed sensitive ports, private IPs, known vulnerabilities), and dark web presence (compromised credentials and ransomware events). Crucially, the DarCache Vulnerability repository integrates NVD, EPSS, KEV, and verified Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploits, moving beyond simple identification to understand real-world exploitability and the likelihood of exploitation. This deeper inspection enhances the validity of the IP Reputation rating by aligning it with specific, demonstrable risks.

• Integrated Brand Damage Assessment: Incorporating Brand Damage Susceptibility directly evaluates the potential impact of IP address reputation on the organization's brand. ThreatNG derives this from digital risk intelligence and Domain Intelligence (including Domain Name Permutations and Web3 Domains). Considering this correlation, the IP Reputation rating gains fidelity and validity, reflecting how compromised IPs could tarnish brand perception.

• Granular IP-Specific Intelligence: ThreatNG's IP Intelligence investigation module provides granular details on IPs, shared IPs, ASNs, and country locations. This capability allows for deep investigation into the network infrastructure behind specific IP addresses.

• Continuous Monitoring for Dynamic Risk: ThreatNG's Continuous Monitoring of external attack surfaces, digital risk, and security ratings ensures that IP Reputation ratings are always current. It captures any changes in IP behavior or associations in real time, reflecting the dynamic threat landscape.

• Advanced Search for Deeper Analysis: The Advanced Search capability facilitates detailed investigations of discovery and assessment results, allowing security professionals to quickly find specific data related to IP addresses and identify critical risk patterns.

By combining these enhanced capabilities, ThreatNG Security Ratings provides a more comprehensive, accurate, and actionable assessment of IP Reputation. This enables organizations and stakeholders to make more informed decisions about the trustworthiness of their IP addresses, establish secure connections, and proactively mitigate potential threats related to IP Reputation.