Brand Protection
Stop the Collapse: Erase the AI-Driven Threat Actors’ Reconnaissance Advantage
The rise of Generative AI has weaponized anonymity, turning brand protection from a reactive public relations task into an existential Business Resilience crisis. Your perimeter defense cannot stop a deepfake CEO impersonation or financial fraud launched from a typosquatted domain, because the adversary doesn't attack your network—they exploit exposed data and historical security gaps to perfectly authenticate malicious communications. ThreatNG is the required strategic defense layer, combining External Attack Surface Management (EASM) and Digital Risk Protection (DRP) to neutralize attackers' pre-fraud reconnaissance and restore executive confidence across your entire digital ecosystem.
Three Imperatives for the CISO: Closing the Authenticity Gap Before the Next Global Crisis
Eliminate the Crisis of Confidence: Proactive BEC and Fraud Prevention
Your current security stack is blind to AI’s favorite entry vector: credential leakage and malicious phishing infrastructure. We provide the BEC & Phishing Susceptibility score by continuously monitoring for compromised credentials (Dark Web Presence), DMARC/SPF failures, and the existence of malicious Domain Name Permutations registered with targeted keywords ('pay,' 'login,' etc.). We empower you to prevent wire fraud and executive impersonation before the attacker can deploy the deepfake.
Shut Down the Adversary’s Reconnaissance Map
AI threat actors exploit exposed data and abandoned assets to build high-fidelity social engineering attacks. We close this critical Reconnaissance Gap by actively hunting for your organization's sensitive IP and credentials in unmonitored places, including leaked API keys on sharing platforms (Online Sharing Exposure and Sensitive Code Exposure) and historical login pages or user lists found in deep web records (Archived Web Pages). This denies the adversary the materials they need to authenticate fraud at scale.
Gain Board-Level Authority with Quantifiable Risk
Stop reporting on incident counts and start managing risk with an executive metric. ThreatNG provides the Brand Damage Susceptibility Rating (A-F), a single score quantifying total external liability—including financial risks (Lawsuits, SEC 8-K filings), ESG violations, and negative news that cause Long-term Market Value Suppression. This metric enables clear communication of value and the Cost of Inaction (COI) to the C-suite.
Master the External Threat: How ThreatNG Investigation Modules Restore CISO Control
Eliminate the AI-Driven Reconnaissance Gap. ThreatNG provides ten specialized modules that proactively uncover the historical data leaks, malicious domain infrastructure, and exposed code secrets used by attackers to launch high-fidelity brand fraud and deepfake attacks.
The modern adversary operates outside your network, weaponizing your organization’s exposed data, unmonitored domains, and historical mistakes to achieve AI Authenticity Collapse. To effectively protect brand value and financial integrity, your defense must shift from reactive monitoring to proactive Reconnaissance Gap Closure. ThreatNG’s Brand Protection is powered by ten core Investigation Modules that provide this critical external visibility, ensuring you deny threat actors the technical assets they need to launch executive impersonation, phishing, and reputational attacks.
Domain Intelligence
Proactively stops AI-driven phishing and impersonation campaigns by detecting cybersquatting and malicious Domain Name Permutations registered with high-risk keywords. Provides the early warning needed to preemptively shut down the infrastructure that attackers require to host fraudulent sites and deepfake assets.
Cloud and SaaS Exposure
Identifies infrastructure misconfigurations and third-party risks, such as Exposed Open Cloud Buckets or unauthorized SaaS usage, which attackers exploit to damage brand credibility. Validating external cloud posture prevents breaches that lead to severe compliance failures and subsequent reputational harm.
Sensitive Code Exposure
Prevents catastrophic IP and credential leaks by identifying public code repositories that expose private API Keys, Cloud Credentials, and other sensitive information. Eliminating this source of core technical secrets denies threat actors the key material required for advanced executive impersonation and financial fraud.
Online Sharing Exposure
Closes a critical data reconnaissance gap by tracking an organization’s exposed secrets and IP across public code-sharing platforms like Pastebin, Scribd, and GitHub Gist. Detecting and removing these leaks prevents adversaries from harvesting the proprietary data needed to execute high-fidelity social engineering and deepfake scams.
Sentiment and Financials
Provides executive oversight of long-term reputational erosion by monitoring non-technical risks, such as organizational Lawsuits, Negative News, and SEC Filings (8-Ks). Identifying these financial and governance risks directly feeds into the Brand Damage Susceptibility score, justifying strategic investment in resilience.
Archived Web Pages
Neutralizes the threat of Historical Reconnaissance Risk by uncovering sensitive archived assets, including old login pages, user lists, and document files. Ensures attackers cannot exploit decommissioned or forgotten data to create convincing deepfake backstories or breach credentials.
Dark Web Presence
Provides early warning of imminent brand-critical security incidents by monitoring for organizational mentions, associated Ransomware Events, and compromised credentials (DarCache Rupture). Converting dark web intelligence into proactive threat mitigation helps secure the brand against breaches and supply chain attacks.
Technology Stack
Performs exhaustive discovery of thousands of technologies composing the external attack surface, identifying third-party risk exposure across all vendors and assets. Understanding the full unauthenticated stack is crucial for proactive vulnerability management, preventing attacks that exploit third-party exposure to damage the brand. known vulnerabilities associated with these technologies and assess the organization's susceptibility to specific attack types.
Search Engine Exploitation
Protects brand credibility by identifying potential exposure of sensitive files, user data, and privileged folders via search engines. Discovering critical website control files (Robots.txt and Security.txt) ensures the organization maintains rigorous control over what information attackers can easily find.
Social Media
Closes the "Narrative Risk" and Human Attack Surface gaps by converting unmonitored public chatter (Reddit Discovery) into early warning intelligence. Identifies key personnel susceptible to social engineering (LinkedIn Discovery), enabling the CISO to proactively manage reputational crises and prevent targeted impersonation.
External Adversary View
An Attacker's First Weapon Isn't Code—It's Your Brand
Protecting your brand goes beyond finding typosquatted domains or impersonations. To an attacker, these are just the first steps in a larger campaign designed to exploit your customers' trust. The ThreatNG External Adversary View provides the critical context, showing you how these brand-related risks are weaponized. We automatically connect a registered domain permutation with active mail records to the specific techniques used for phishing and business email compromise, mapping the entire scenario to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK. This enables you to transition from merely removing infringing domains to proactively dismantling the attack paths that threaten your reputation.
External GRC Assessment
Safeguard Your Brand and Meet Compliance Mandates with External GRC
Beyond identifying threats to your brand, ThreatNG's External GRC Assessment helps you understand how digital brand risks can impact your governance, risk, and compliance posture. By analyzing brand impersonations, phishing susceptibility, and other digital dangers from an attacker's perspective, we help you pinpoint potential compliance violations and reputational damage that could arise from brand compromise. This proactive approach ensures your brand protection strategy contributes directly to maintaining regulatory adherence and stakeholder trust.
From Chaos to Clarity: Ten Quantifiable Scores That Drive Strategic Security Decisions
Stop managing endless spreadsheets of alerts. ThreatNG’s Security Ratings convert chaotic external digital risk and technical exposures into quantifiable scores (A-F), giving you a single, board-ready view of your financial and reputational resilience.
The modern CISO is held accountable for external risks beyond the traditional perimeter, requiring metrics that transcend technical jargon and speak directly to business resilience and financial liability. ThreatNG’s Security Ratings provide this crucial layer of strategic oversight. These ratings fuse intelligence from our Investigation Modules and DarCache repositories to score everything from the likelihood of an AI-driven fraud attempt (BEC & Phishing Susceptibility) to your organizational liability stemming from non-technical factors (Brand Damage Susceptibility). By quantifying risk into objective, easily digestible scores, ThreatNG empowers you to prioritize strategic investments and communicate security posture to the board with unwavering confidence.
BEC & Phishing Susceptibility
Proactively measures the total exposure (A-F) to AI-driven financial fraud and executive impersonation, the leading edge of deepfake attacks. Uses factors like Compromised Credentials (DarCache Rupture) and malicious Domain Name Permutations to warn the CISO of an imminent wire transfer or social engineering threat.
Brand Damage Susceptibility
Serving as the CISO’s executive metric, the rating (A-F) quantifies the total organizational exposure to long-term reputational and financial harm. The score is calculated using critical non-technical factors such as Lawsuits, Negative News, and SEC 8-K Filings, thereby justifying a strategic resilience investment to the board.
Breach & Ransomware Susceptibility
Quantifies the organization's readiness for catastrophic operational failure by combining intelligence on exposed assets, Compromised Credentials, and historical Ransomware Events (tracked via DarCache). Enables the CISO to prioritize asset hardening based on the proven threat of ransomware and data exfiltration.
Cyber Risk Exposure
Provides a holistic assessment of attack likelihood by combining diverse technical risks, such as Invalid Certificates, Exposed Open Cloud Buckets, and Sensitive Code Exposure. The rating identifies weaknesses across the external attack surface that an attacker could exploit to compromise systems, leading to reputational and operational disruption.
Data Leak Susceptibility
Assesses the likelihood of a massive data breach by combining multiple sources, including Cloud and SaaS Exposure, Dark Web Presence (compromised credentials), and Domain Intelligence. A low score signals that threat actors have easy access to the sensitive information required to execute a catastrophic, brand-damaging attack.
ESG Exposure
Highlights the external visibility of discovered Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Violations, including safety, consumer, and financial offenses (tracked via DarCache ESG). Quantifying these non-technical risks helps the CISO manage regulatory and investor scrutiny that directly impacts brand reputation and market perception
Supply Chain & Third Party Exposure
Evaluates the risk posed by vendor dependencies, integrating findings from Cloud Exposure, SaaS Identification, and the total Technology Stack. By assessing external vendor security, the rating protects the brand from indirect breaches and disruptions stemming from supply chain compromises.[
Subdomain Takeover Susceptibility
Assesses the risk of a third-party vendor failure, allowing an attacker to seize control of a legitimate subdomain (dangling DNS), a prime target for deepfake hosting and phishing. By checking CNAME records against extensive vendor lists, the rating prioritizes misconfigurations that could lead to severe reputational damage or regulatory non-compliance.
Web Application Hijack Susceptibility
Analyzing the external attack surface and the digital risk intelligence accessible from the outside world, the rating substantiates the organization's vulnerability to a web application compromise. It quantifies potential entry points that, if exploited, could lead to data breaches, site defacement, and immediate loss of customer trust.
Mobile App Exposure
Evaluates the risk posed by exposed Access Credentials, Security Credentials, and Platform Specific Identifiers discovered within an organization’s public mobile applications.[1] Protecting the brand from these unauthorized data leaks is crucial, as exposed secrets in apps enable attackers to bypass authentication and execute sophisticated fraud.[
The Strategic Advantage: DarCache, The Intelligence That Fuels Proactive Brand Resilience
Your defense is only as good as its intelligence. ThreatNG’s DarCache (Data Reconnaissance Cache) is a proprietary network of continuously updated intelligence repositories that converts dark web secrets, historical data, and financial filings into the strategic early warnings required to secure your brand from AI-driven fraud.
The speed and sophistication of modern threat actors who weaponize exposed data to authenticate deepfake scams demand a defense powered by foresight, not just monitoring. DarCache provides the raw, high-fidelity intelligence that directly informs the security ratings and modules across the ThreatNG platform, ensuring your protection is always based on the most current adversary views and quantifiable external risks. By indexing over 70 Ransomware Groups, tracking Compromised Credentials, and monitoring SEC 8-K Filings, DarCache delivers the contextual awareness the CISO needs to make strategic, risk-based decisions and eliminate the hidden vectors of brand compromise.
Dark Web
Feeds the Dark Web Presence module by maintaining a current index of organizational mentions and threat actor chatter in high-risk private forums. This provides early warning intelligence on planned social engineering attacks and data exposure, enabling proactive brand defense.
ESG Violations
Supplies all discovered ESG Violations (Environmental, Social, Governance, including competition and safety offenses) that drive the Brand Damage Susceptibility and ESG Exposure ratings. This intelligence is vital for managing external non-technical risks that can cause severe, long-term reputational and financial harm.
Ransomware Events
Tracks over 70 active Ransomware Groups and Activities, providing critical context for associated events discovered in the Dark Web Presence module. Knowing that a threat actor group is targeting the brand allows the CISO to prioritize defenses against imminent supply chain attacks and data breaches.
Compromised Credentials
Serves as the continuous, updated repository of Compromised Credentials used to inform the Dark Web Presence and Data Leak Susceptibility ratings. This is essential for closing the BEC & Phishing Susceptibility gap, as exposed credentials are the primary fuel for AI-driven executive impersonation fraud.[
Mobile Applications
Contains exposed Access Credentials, Security Credentials, and Platform Specific Identifiers found within mobile apps related to the organization. This protects the brand from unauthorized access and data leaks caused by exposed secrets embedded in mobile application code.
SEC Form 8-Ks
Tracks SEC Form 8-K Filings for public companies, feeding the Sentiment and Financials module with crucial financial risk and oversight context. Monitoring these mandatory filings is key to managing the overall Brand Damage Susceptibility score and justifying strategic security investment.
Known Vulnerabilities
Provides a holistic view of external software risk by integrating technical vulnerability details (NVD), likelihood of exploitation (EPSS), and confirmation of active exploitation (KEV). This enables the security team to prioritize patching efforts on external assets that pose the highest immediate threat to brand stability.
Bank Identification Numbers (BINs)
Provides intelligence on Bank Identification Numbers (BINs), which are crucial for identifying and mitigating payment and checkout fraud that directly impacts brand trust and financial systems. This specialized repository helps prevent fraudulent transactions and protects customer confidence in e-commerce operations.
Bug Bounty Programs
Indexes active Bug Bounty Programs, which informs the Domain Intelligence module of the organization’s security maturity and scope. This serves as a Positive Security Indicator (PSI), providing a balanced view of brand resilience while guiding external security assessment efforts.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for the CISO: Securing the Brand in the Age of AI
Strategic Risk & Business Justification
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The collapse of digital authenticity due to widely available Generative AI (GenAI) has turned brand impersonation into an existential financial risk. Threat actors now use deepfakes and LLMs to execute high-value fraud (such as CEO wire transfer scams) and incur severe regulatory exposure. Safeguarding the brand is now inseparable from ensuring business resilience, making it a mandatory CISO accountability.
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Legacy tools typically monitor for unauthorized use (keywords, logos). ThreatNG stops malicious authentication by eliminating the attack vectors GenAI threat actors use for reconnaissance. This includes shutting down typosquatted domains (Domain Intelligence), finding exposed credentials (BEC & Phishing Susceptibility), and neutralizing IP leaks on code-sharing platforms (Online Sharing Exposure). Your legacy tool watches the front door; we eliminate the attacker's data supply chain that they use to pick the lock.
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Quantify this risk using the Brand Damage Susceptibility Rating (A-F), which is derived from critical factors like Lawsuits, Negative News, SEC 8-K Filings, and ESG Violations. This single executive metric translates complex external risk into a clear financial and reputational score that the board can easily understand and prioritize.
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The Brand Damage Susceptibility Rating (A-F) is the predictive metric for long-term reputational risk and market value suppression. The score incorporates non-technical liabilities, such as Lawsuits and Negative News, which are directly tied to the erosion of shareholder trust and sustained corporate success.
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The Cost of Inaction (COI) is the active incurrence of losses by maintaining the status quo, which includes direct financial fraud, severe Regulatory Exposure (GDPR/PCI DSS fines) , and long-term market value suppression. Quantifying your COI forces the executive team to prioritize defense against the most severe near-term global risk: misinformation and fraud.
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Misinformation/disinformation ranks as the most severe near-term global risk. ThreatNG addresses the two primary vectors used to distribute it: 1) Social Media Monitoring provides early warning of narrative attacks and social engineering reconnaissance (Reddit Discovery), and 2) Domain Intelligence preemptively identifies and prioritizes malicious domains designed to host fake or fraudulent information. We give you control over the narrative before it escalates into a crisis.
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Yes, in most cases. Legacy vendors rely on keyword/logo matching. They are blind to the technical attack vectors used by AI threat actors, such as Domain Name Permutations, Compromised Credentials (DarCache Rupture), and missing email security standards (DMARC/SPF). Legacy tools detect brand abuse after it’s launched, while ThreatNG prevents the underlying fraud infrastructure.
Technical Clarity & Attack Surface Closure
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The attack vectors are not technical exploits, but exposed credentials and infrastructure used for authentication. The key vectors ThreatNG eliminates include: Compromised Credentials (DarCache Rupture), malicious Domain Name Permutations (typosquatting), exposed API Keys (Sensitive Code Exposure), and historical sensitive data leaks (Archived Web Pages).
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Prevent these high-stakes scams by proactively eliminating the technical precursor: the setup of the fraudulent communications. This is achieved by maintaining a high BEC & Phishing Susceptibility rating, enforced through continuous monitoring of your domain and email security records against malicious permutations used to launch the scam.
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ThreatNG’s Online Sharing Exposure and Sensitive Code Exposure modules are the dedicated solutions for this function. It continuously tracks your organization's exposed secrets and proprietary IP on public code-sharing platforms such as Pastebin, GitHub Gist, and Scribd, denying attackers the credentials they need to gain initial access.
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Use the Archived Web Pages Investigation Module, which neutralizes the threat of Historical Reconnaissance Risk. This module discovers sensitive, decommissioned assets, including old login pages, user lists, and document files, ensuring attackers cannot exploit forgotten data to establish trust for a deepfake or phishing campaign.
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ThreatNG performs a purely external, unauthenticated discovery—the "Adversary View"—to find data leaks you didn't know existed. Specifically, two key modules close this gap: Online Sharing Exposure tracks sensitive IP addresses and credentials exposed on public code-sharing sites (such as Pastebin or GitHub Gist), and Archived Web Pages uncovers historical leaks, such as old login pages or exposed user lists, that attackers use for initial reconnaissance. We neutralize the historical data risk that fuels AI-driven fraud.
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We deliver intelligence, not just data points. ThreatNG prioritizes risks using our External Adversary View, which automatically maps findings (e.g., exposed ports, leaked credentials) to specific MITRE ATT&CK techniques. This eliminates manual research and provides your team with a clear picture of how an attacker would exploit a vulnerability. Furthermore, the intelligence is fed directly into your existing SIEM/SOAR platforms for automated response to prioritized brand risks, allowing you to focus on strategy, not fire drills.
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This score (A-F) provides an instantaneous, proactive measure of your exposure to executive impersonation and financial fraud—the leading edge of deepfake attacks. It validates if your organization is susceptible based on three critical factors: the presence of your Compromised Credentials on the Dark Web, the security of your mail records (SPF/DMARC), and the existence of malicious Domain Name Permutations registered to impersonate your firm. A good score grants Peace of Mind during critical transaction periods.
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Yes, by closing the "Human Attack Surface" gap. Our Social Media Monitoring module, which includes LinkedIn Discovery, identifies employees most susceptible to social engineering attacks. By flagging exposed usernames and unmonitored chatter, we provide an early warning system against pre-attack reconnaissance, giving you the necessary intelligence to protect your leadership and high-value personnel from targeted AI-driven impersonation attempts.
Brand Protection Use Cases
In today's increasingly digital world, protecting your brand is more important than ever. With the rise of social media and e-commerce, it has become easier for counterfeiters, cybercriminals, and unauthorized sellers to exploit your brand's reputation and goodwill. At ThreatNG, we understand brand protection challenges and have developed a comprehensive platform to address these issues. Our solution provides a range of capabilities to meet your organization's specific needs to safeguard its brand against threats and maintain its integrity.