Preemptive Control: How ThreatNG Neutralizes the Human Attack Surface Before Adversaries Compromise Your Security and Admin Teams
You, the VP of Digital Risk & Resilience (DRR), are responsible for the entire enterprise. You've hardened the firewalls and deployed next-gen endpoints. But the single most significant risk remains the unmanaged external perimeter: your people.
Adversaries do not waste time on random targets. They exclusively pursue roles that hold the keys to the kingdom: Admin, Security, DevOps, and Integration. Their professional profiles and exposed credentials are the easy entry points for the most destructive attacks.
While other solutions show you only the outcome (a credential leak), ThreatNG’s Social Media Investigation Module (SMIM) is built to secure this leadership layer preemptively, transforming your defense into a heroic, data-driven operation.
Critical Defense 1: The Triple Threat Convergence for Executive Protection
You can only manage what you can quantify. Security programs fail when they treat the public exposure of a CEO the same as that of an intern. ThreatNG introduces a differentiated capability for Targeted Reconnaissance Neutralization by fusing three unique data sources to create a real-time risk profile:
LinkedIn Discovery: Identifies employees most susceptible to social engineering attacks by mapping their professional biographies and project histories—the very information an attacker uses to craft a tailored spear-phishing email.
NHI Email Exposure: The game-changer. We immediately cross-reference the exposed profile against our intelligence on high-value, privileged functional email addresses, confirming that the susceptible person is indeed the Security lead, the DevOps engineer, or the Admin account owner.
DarCache Rupture Linkage: We complete convergence by checking whether the high-value, identified identity already has a compromised credential on the Dark Web.
This fusion generates the Executive Social Susceptibility (ESS) Index. No other solution offers this level of targeted, cross-platform convergence to assess the exploitability of your leadership layer.
Example of Unmanaged Loss vs. ThreatNG Control:
The Unmanaged Risk: An attacker buys a batch of credentials from the Dark Web (DarCache Rupture). They find a password linked to support@company.com. Since they also see the profile of the "Head of Global Support" on LinkedIn Discovery, they now have the perfect, high-confidence target for a sophisticated social engineering attack, creating a direct path to a breach.
The Heroic Intervention: The SMIM automatically converges these three data points in minutes, flagging the individual under the highest ESS Index, allowing you to enforce immediate, preemptive controls (e.g., targeted MFA enforcement) hours, days, or weeks before the attack campaign is even launched.
Critical Defense 2: Achieving Zero-Hour Defense with MITRE Mapping
The goal of every sophisticated attacker is to achieve a persistent Foothold within your network. That starts with Initial Access and Reconnaissance, which are the exact stages the SMIM is designed to monitor and neutralize.
What Makes ThreatNG Unique?
The strategic value of the SMIM is its ability to turn unstructured social intelligence into a boardroom-ready, action-oriented narrative through MITRE ATT&CK Mapping. You gain a Zero-Hour Defense capability:
From Data to Strategy: When our system identifies a high-risk convergence (e.g., an exposed DevOps profile linked to compromised credentials), it doesn't just send an alert. It automatically translates this finding into the strategic consequence: Initial Access: Spearphishing (T1566) or Reconnaissance: Gather Victim Identity Information (T1589).
Proof of Proactive Defense: You can now walk into an executive briefing and state: "Our security investment is directly neutralizing the adversary's documented TTPs before they can establish a persistent Foothold. We are not mitigating random CVEs; we are stopping specific, high-likelihood Initial Access attempts against our security leadership."
This shift ensures your budget decisions are driven by intelligence, allowing you to secure the Breach & Ransomware Susceptibility of your most critical human assets.
The Call to Action: Secure Your Most Vulnerable Perimeter
Stop treating all employee exposure equally. The SMIM provides the control necessary to focus your limited security awareness and enforcement resources on the highest-risk human assets, turning Human Attack Surface vulnerabilities into your most fortified perimeter. Be the hero who prevents the breach by seeing the adversary’s plan before they execute their first move.
