ThreatNG complements your existing application security solutions by providing an external perspective and uncovering hidden risks that traditional tools might miss. Here's how ThreatNG enhances your application security efforts:

Gain a Comprehensive View of Your Application Attack Surface

• Uncover Shadow IT and Subdomains: Discover unknown or forgotten subdomains that may host applications or services, expanding your security coverage beyond what's immediately visible. This complements your internal application inventory and vulnerability scanning efforts by ensuring no application is left unmonitored.

  • Example: Identify a forgotten subdomain hosting an older version of your application with known vulnerabilities, allowing you to prioritize patching and remediation efforts.

• Detect and Analyze WAFs: Identify the presence and type of Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) protecting your applications. This information complements your WAF configuration and tuning efforts by providing an external view of its effectiveness and identifying potential bypass techniques.

  • Example: Discover that a specific WAF rule is not blocking a known attack pattern, allowing you to fine-tune the WAF configuration and improve its protection.

• Ensure Secure Communication: Analyze TLS certificates for issues such as expiry, weak ciphers, or misconfigurations. This complements your secure development practices by ensuring that your applications use safe and up-to-date certificates, protecting sensitive data transmitted between the application and its users.

  • Example: Identify an expired certificate on a critical application subdomain, preventing potential service disruptions and security breaches.

Control Your Web Presence

• Prevent Unintentional Exposure: Analyze robots.txt files to identify potentially sensitive directories or files excluded from search engine indexing. This complements your access control policies by ensuring that sensitive parts of your applications are not inadvertently exposed to unauthorized access.

  • Example: Discover that a development or staging environment is accidentally accessible through search engines, allowing you to restrict access and prevent potential security breaches.

• Facilitate Vulnerability Disclosure: Discover and analyze security.txt files, which provide security-related contact information for reporting vulnerabilities. This complements your vulnerability management program by establishing clear communication channels for security researchers and ethical hackers to report potential application vulnerabilities.

  • Example: Ensure your security.txt file contains up-to-date contact information and vulnerability disclosure policies, streamlining the vulnerability reporting process and encouraging responsible disclosure.

Proactively Identify and Mitigate Application Security Risks

• Assess External Attack Vectors: Evaluate the susceptibility of web applications to hijacking by analyzing externally accessible parts of the application, identifying potential entry points for attackers. This complements your internal vulnerability scanning and penetration testing efforts by providing an external perspective on application security.

  • Example: Identify a publicly accessible administrative interface missed during internal security assessments, allowing you to secure and prevent unauthorized access.

• Prevent Subdomain Takeovers: Determine the susceptibility of subdomains to takeover attacks, helping you identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities that could compromise applications or expose sensitive data. This complements your DNS security practices and helps prevent attackers from exploiting dangling DNS records to gain control of your subdomains.

  • Example: Identify a subdomain pointing to a decommissioned service, allowing you to remove the DNS record and prevent attackers from claiming it for malicious purposes.

• Secure Your APIs: Enhance API discovery capabilities to identify and assess the security of APIs exposed by your applications. This complements your API security testing and management efforts by providing visibility into all your APIs and ensuring they are adequately secured.

  • Example: Discover an undocumented API endpoint with weak authentication, allowing you to implement proper security controls and prevent unauthorized access.

• Detect and Remediate Code Leaks: Identify exposed public code repositories and pinpoint sensitive information such as access credentials, database exposures, and application data. This complements your secure coding practices and code review processes by identifying and remediating code leaks that could compromise application security.

  • Example: Discover a leaked API key in a public GitHub repository, allowing you to revoke the key and prevent unauthorized access to your API.

• Assess Mobile App Security: Discover mobile apps in various marketplaces and analyze their contents for potential security risks. This complements your mobile application security testing efforts by providing an external view of your mobile app's security posture and identifying vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit.

  • Example: Identify a hardcoded password in a mobile app, allowing you to remove it and implement secure authentication mechanisms.

• Monitor the Dark Web: Stay informed about mentions of your organization, associated ransomware events, and compromised credentials on the dark web. This complements your threat intelligence efforts by providing early warnings of potential threats to your applications and allowing you to take proactive measures to protect against them.

  • Example: Identify leaked credentials associated with your application accounts, allowing you to reset passwords and prevent unauthorized access.

By integrating ThreatNG into your application security program, you can better understand your attack surface, proactively identify and mitigate security risks, and strengthen your overall security posture.