Functional Assets and Pillars

Bridge the Attribution Chasm

Engineering Digital Resilience Across the Technical, Strategic, Operational, and Financial Pillars

Despite adhering to every industry best practice, you are likely one of the 76% of security leaders who expect to face a significant cyberattack this year. This concern stems from the "Legacy Illusion," which suggests that having technical data alone guarantees security. In reality, your organization is facing a "Crisis of Context" in which the traditional perimeter has dissolved into a global digital presence, leaving you blind to gaps between your business silos. ThreatNG’s security-inclusive architecture is designed to bridge the Attribution Chasm, transforming how you categorize external assets and functions. By mapping every finding to four critical Functional Pillars, Technical, Strategic, Operational, and Financial, we provide the Legal-Grade Attribution required to turn ambiguous noise into irrefutable evidence that protects your company’s most vital asset: its Business Valuation.

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Visibility

Bridging the "Visibility Gap" Through Unauthenticated Discovery

As we encounter new digital asset types in our ongoing R&D efforts, we assess their levels of revelation and exploitation through a purely "outside-in" lens. This stage is critical for bridging the initial visibility gap and identifying findings that are:

  • Revelatory: Uncovering sensitive, proprietary, and secret information about your People, Places, and Things (Brands, Products, and Services).

  • Exploitable: Identifying how an adversary could use these findings for reconnaissance, resource acquisition, unauthorized access, privilege escalation, or defense evasion.

Every asset discovered is immediately categorized into one of our four Functional Pillars (Technical, Strategic, Operational, and Financial) to ensure the right business owners are alerted from the start.

Insight

Fueling Security Ratings (A-F) with Veracity™ Contextual Intelligence

Findings alone are noise; ThreatNG transforms them into a strategy via Veracity™ Certainty Intelligence. Every finding is analyzed through the Digital Presence Triad to resolve the "Contextual Certainty Deficit" and provide high-fidelity Security Ratings (A-F). We measure:

  • Feasibility: Is the finding practical, realistic, and accessible for an attacker?

  • Believability: Is the threat narrative surrounding the asset trustworthy, reasonable, and timely?

  • Impact: How does the exposure affect change in your organization's performance, experience, or relationships?

By using the Digital Presence Triad as the engine for our ratings, we provide a precise, prioritized remediation mandate that allows you to focus on the 6% of vulnerabilities that pose a true business risk.

Management

Bridging the Attribution Chasm and Disrupting the DarChain™

Every digital asset has a corresponding functional area of impact across our four pillars. To bridge the Attribution Chasm, ThreatNG integrates investigation, communication, and management capabilities to break down departmental silos.

  • Break Down Silos: We facilitate evidence-based investigations that empower cross-departmental collaboration between IT, Legal, Finance, and Marketing.

  • Legal-Grade Attribution: By utilizing the Context Engine™, we provide the irrefutable evidence required to assign accountability and justify remediation.

  • Disrupt the DarChain™: Our management framework allows you to pinpoint Attack Choke Points across the functional pillars, enabling you to disrupt the adversary’s exploit chain and move defense timelines upstream to protect your Business Valuation.

From Chaos to Clarity

Engineering Digital Resilience Across the Four Functional Pillars

Functional Areas

  • Technical Intelligence and Technical Attack Surface

    Technical

    Fortifying Infrastructure and Ecosystem Integrity

    Focus: Applications, Services, and IT Infrastructure

    Unpatched vulnerabilities, coding inconsistencies, and application/infrastructure misconfigurations are the "armor gaps" that adversaries exploit to gain initial access. In the machine-speed threat landscape, the Technical Pillar provides exhaustive visibility into your IT foundation (On-Premise, Cloud, IoT Entities, and Network) and your external services (Domains, Certificates, and Public Code Repositories).

    Adversary Narrative: We identify high-fidelity signals like Private IPs leaked in public logs or missing security headers (CSP, HSTS) that serve as the starting point for a DarChain™ exploit.

    Business Impact: By securing the technical layer, you prevent the unauthorized access and privilege escalation that leads to ecosystem-wide breaches across your partners, customers, and supply chains.

  • Strategic Intelligence and Strategic Attack Surface

    Strategic

    Safeguarding Brand Reputation and Narrative Risk

    Focus: Industry, Trade, Market Behavior, and Reputation

    Mismanagement of strategic assets creates a "Crisis of Context" that adversaries weaponize for social engineering and disinformation. The Strategic Pillar inventory includes assets that define your market position, such as strategic plans, marketing collateral, and your social network presence.

    Narrative Risk: We monitor the "Conversational Attack Surface" (Reddit, social media, and Web3 domain squatting) to identify defamatory chatter or brand impersonations before they impact investor confidence.

    Business Impact: Strategic alignment ensures that your digital footprint remains compliant with industry regulations and protected from the reputational harm that directly erodes business valuation.

  • Operational Intelligence and Operational Attack Surface

    Operational

    Protecting the Human Attack Surface and Supply Chain

    Focus: People (Employees/VIPs), Places (Factories/Offices), and Things (Materials/Products)

    Operational assets are the functional backbone of your enterprise, yet they are often the most vulnerable to AI-driven social engineering. This pillar monitors sensitive exposures related to your workforce, R&D projects, and third-party dependencies.

    Human-Centric Defense: We track high-risk signals, such as Layoff Mentions and Non-Human Identity (NHI) exposures (e.g., leaked API keys/service accounts), which attackers can use to obtain high-fidelity reconnaissance data.

    Business Impact: Proactive operational monitoring mitigates the risk of sensitive data leaks and technical threats that cascade into your third-party ecosystem, ensuring continuous ESG governance and legal resilience.

  • Financial Intelligence and Financial Attack Surface

    Financial

    Defending Monetary Integrity and Market Transactions

    Focus: Monetary Markets, Structures, and Transactions

    The Financial Pillar concerns the digital artifacts that impact your monetary transactions and regulatory standing. Overexposure of financial assets—such as SEC filings, internal management reports, or tax documentation—can be leveraged by adversaries to commit high-value fraud.

    Fraud Prevention: We identify exposed Bank Identification Numbers (BINs) and misconfigured email security (SPF/DMARC) that drive Business Email Compromise (BEC) and fraudulent wire transfers.

    Business Impact: By bridging the Attribution Chasm in your financial data, we protect your organization from multi-million dollar fraud incidents and the massive regulatory fines (e.g., Regulation S-P) associated with non-compliance.

Transform External Chaos into an Operational Mandate Across the Four Pillars

True security is no longer just about discovering vulnerabilities; it is about managing the Functional Assets that power your enterprise. ThreatNG’s proprietary Context Engine™ automatically categorizes every external finding into the Technical, Strategic, Operational, or Financial pillars, moving your team from reactive guesswork to proactive "resilience engineering." By using the Digital Presence Triad (Feasibility, Believability, and Impact), we provide a precise, prioritized remediation mandate that identifies the exact business impact and functional owner for each risk. You will finally have the operational certainty required to align IT, Legal, Finance, and Marketing against a unified threat landscape.

Disrupt the Narrative Risk of the Machine-Speed Adversary with DarChain™ Intelligence

Against an enemy using agentic AI to automate reconnaissance and exploit the "Conversational Attack Surface," legacy scans are a relic of the past. ThreatNG empowers you and your team as partners against this Machine-Speed Adversary by utilizing DarChain (External Contextual Attack Path Intelligence). DarChain models the precise exploit chain by advancing from a strategic signal, such as an ESG violation discussed on social media, to an operational gap in a forgotten cloud bucket. This process allows us to pinpoint what we call "Attack Choke Points." This allows you to break the kill chain and move your defense timelines upstream, neutralizing complex threats before they mature into a $10M wire fraud or a career-ending data breach.

Secure the Boardroom with Veracity™ Contextual Intelligence fueling your Security Ratings (A-F)

Your board of directors doesn’t want technical acronyms; they want to know how much revenue is at risk. While legacy security scores rely on stale, 30-day-old data, ThreatNG Veracity™ Certainty Intelligence is the underlying engine that fuels our Security Ratings (A-F), providing high-fidelity, real-time metrics derived from unauthenticated discovery. By bridging the Attribution Chasm with Legal-Grade Attribution, you can enter your next board review with irrefutable proof of how your security strategy is shielding the company’s valuation. You will be empowered to demonstrate the "reasonable security measures" required by modern regulators and insurers, proving that your defenses are engineered to bend, not break, under pressure.