BEC and Phishing Susceptibility

Stop Waiting for the Lure: Preempt Targeted Attacks with the BEC and Phishing Susceptibility Rating

Gain an independent, external audit of the infrastructure being weaponized against your brand, exactly as an adversary sees it, and definitively secure your conversational risk.

  • Attain an objective, continuous A-F security rating derived entirely from connectorless, unauthenticated external discovery.

  • Eliminate the "Hidden Tax on the SOC" by replacing chaotic alert noise with irrefutable, evidence-backed threat narratives.

  • Map your digital exposures directly to critical regulatory mandates and established risk frameworks without manual correlation.

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The Business Reality: Eradicating the Preemption Illusion

The contemporary cybersecurity industry suffers from a "Preemption Illusion." Traditional defensive approaches focus heavily on internal filtering and global threat feeds, ultimately waiting to detect an attack as it crosses the network perimeter. This reactive posture drops a massive burden on security operations teams, creating a "Hidden Tax on the SOC" where analysts burn countless hours investigating subjective alerts and false positives.

ThreatNG introduces a truly preemptive, outside-in paradigm using deterministic external discovery. The platform requires no internal agents, API connectors, or network taps to deploy. Instead of waiting for an email to hit the inbox, ThreatNG uncovers malicious infrastructure adversaries are actively staging. Importantly, ThreatNG does not check asset blacklists; we rely on verifiable, real-time discovery of external infrastructure to show exactly where your brand is most vulnerable.

Persona-Driven Value & Return on Security Investment (ROSI)

Enterprise | Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP)

Enterprise:

Risk Reduction & Defensible Regulatory Alignment

  • Operational Cost Avoidance: Forcing premium security talent to spend countless hours each week manually tracking lookalike domains and credential leaks represents a massive, unscalable opportunity cost. ThreatNG automates this tedious discovery process, allowing you to reclaim high-value analyst time to focus on active threat mitigation.

  • Evidence-Backed Remediation: ThreatNG does not route verified threats directly to asset owners; it generates questionnaires backed by the evidence collected by ThreatNG, streamlining internal and third-party remediation workflows.

  • Defensible Compliance: ThreatNG maps external risks directly to global regulatory requirements, including PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, DPDPA, NIST CSF, SEC mandates, and the Open FAIR framework.

  • Holistic Posture: To ensure comprehensive corporate governance across the supply chain, our Lawsuits Investigation Module rigorously identifies and reports on publicly disclosed lawsuits. At the same time, our ESG Exposure Security Rating rigorously draws on publicly disclosed ESG violations.

Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP):

Multi-Tenant Margin Protection & Rapid Onboarding

  • Protect Your Margins: To manually monitor domain permutations, Web3 registrations, and dark web intelligence for 20 different enterprise tenants, an MSSP would need to hire multiple full-time analysts. ThreatNG allows you to scale an enterprise-grade service instantly, protecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in margin without linearly increasing headcount.

  • Accelerated Time-to-Value: During an M&A transaction or a major brand launch, DarcRadar offers pre-built policy templates to rapidly spin up tailored investigations into BEC risk vectors, shortening the new client onboarding cycle to mere seconds.

What We Analyze:

Connectorless External Discovery

ThreatNG continuously scours the open, deep, and dark web, alongside global DNS registries, to calculate your BEC and Phishing Susceptibility score across the following critical data points:

  • Domain Name Permutations (Taken & Available): Identifying typosquatting and homoglyphs that adversaries could register to impersonate the organization.

  • Domain Permutations with Mail Record: Flagging registered lookalike domains that have active MX (Mail Exchange) records configured, indicating an imminent capability to send weaponized phishing emails.

  • Compromised Credentials: Discovering employee emails and passwords leaked in third-party breaches that provide attackers with authentic material for targeted lures.

  • Infostealer Intelligence: Uncovering highly sensitive session cookies, active credentials, and access tokens harvested by malware and distributed across dark web channels.

  • Associated Organizations: Tracking impersonation risks inherited from third-party partners, vendors, or recently acquired entities.

  • Web3 Domains: Monitoring decentralized blockchain domain registrations that adversaries use to bypass traditional takedown mechanisms.

Actionable Intelligence:

The DarChain Methodology

(External Attack Path Intelligence)

Executives do not care about raw DNS telemetry; they care about business risk. ThreatNG translates technical noise into actionable intelligence using our DarChain methodology. DarChain maps isolated technical exposures into predictive, multi-step attack paths.

For example, DarChain will vividly illustrate how an adversary can harvest an active session cookie from Infostealer Intelligence, combine it with a Domain Permutation with an active Mail Record, and bypass internal filters to launch a targeted BEC campaign. DarChain also reveals how compromised credentials can create unexpected pathways to Subdomain Takeover Susceptibility.

When it is time to neutralize these threats, ThreatNG does not directly execute legal takedowns or brand takedowns; it uncovers and packages forensic evidence to set it up for a takedown service, ensuring you avoid the administrative "Takedown Tax."

Scoring & Customization:

Mold the Platform with DarcRadar

(Policy Management)

DarcRadar, our unified policy management hub, actively shapes the BEC and Phishing Susceptibility Rating. ThreatNG uses a transparent, penalty-based scoring formula to ensure ratings reflect actual, measurable risk rather than arbitrary algorithms.

  • Customizable Risk Configuration: Through Custom Multipliers, organizations can dial the severity of specific exposures up or down. If a company relies heavily on external contractors, it can increase the multiplier for Infostealer Intelligence to ensure failing grades accurately reflect material threats.

  • Policy Exception Management: Organizations often proactively register defensive lookalike domains to protect their brand. DarcRadar allows teams to create managed exceptions for these owned assets. This suppresses the alert and reduces SOC fatigue while maintaining an auditable trail that will not fail compliance checks.

  • Dynamic Entity Management: Granularly define the scope of automated discovery to target specific high-value executives, newly acquired subsidiaries, or distinct regional brands, ensuring the scan is relentlessly focused.

Take Control of Your Conversational Risk Today

Stop reacting to the inbox and watching adversaries build their weapons. Use unauthenticated intelligence to deny them a target entirely.

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BEC and Phishing Susceptibility FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): ThreatNG BEC and Phishing Susceptibility

Don't Miss the Bigger Picture: ThreatNG Unveils a Spectrum of Digital Risks

The ThreatNG BEC & Phishing Susceptibility Score is a powerful tool, but it's just one piece of the puzzle within ThreatNG's comprehensive security assessment suite. While this specific score focuses on email-based threats, ThreatNG offers a broader range of Susceptibility and Exposure ratings that paint a holistic picture of your organization's digital security posture, third-party vendors, and entire supply chain.

ThreatNG's Spectrum of Security Ratings:

Subdomain Takeover Susceptibility Score

Identifies weaknesses in subdomain configurations that could allow attackers to take control.

Brand Damage Susceptibility

Evaluate the likelihood of negative brand impacts due to security incidents, financial violations, or social responsibility concerns.

Breach & Ransomware Susceptibility

Assesses the likelihood of falling victim to ransomware attacks, considering exposed ports, known vulnerabilities, and dark web presence

Non-Human Identity (NHI) Exposure

Quantifies an organization's vulnerability to threats from leaked API keys, service accounts, and system credentials, which are often invisible to internal security tools.

Cyber Risk Exposure

This section provides a broad view of external attack surface vulnerabilities, encompassing the technology stack, cloud environments, and code exposure.

Data Leak Susceptibility

Measures the potential for data breaches based on cloud configurations, SaaS usage, and code repository security.

ESG Exposure

Evaluate the organization's environmental, social, and governance practices to identify potential security risks.

Mobile App Exposure

Assesses the severity of security vulnerabilities in an organization's mobile apps, including exposed credentials and API keys.

Supply Chain & Third Party Exposure

Analyzes the security posture of your vendors and partners, highlighting potential vulnerabilities within your supply chain.

Web Application Hijacking Susceptibility

Analyzes web applications for vulnerabilities attackers could exploit.