External Attack Surface Intelligence (EASI)
External Attack Surface Intelligence in cybersecurity refers to the knowledge gained about an organization's digital assets and potential vulnerabilities visible and accessible from the internet. It involves discovering, analyzing, and understanding all the internet-facing systems, applications, and data that attackers could target. This intelligence helps organizations identify and mitigate risks associated with their external attack surface.
External Attack Surface Intelligence typically includes:
Identifying internet-facing assets: This includes websites, web applications, servers, cloud services, APIs, and other digital assets accessible from the internet.
Analyzing vulnerabilities: This involves identifying weaknesses in these assets that attackers, such as outdated software, misconfigurations, and security flaws, could exploit.
Mapping attack vectors: This involves understanding how attackers could exploit these vulnerabilities to access systems or data.
Assessing potential impact: This involves evaluating the possible consequences of a successful attack, such as data breaches, financial loss, and reputational damage.
By gathering and analyzing External Attack Surface Intelligence, organizations can:
Gain a comprehensive view of their attack surface: Understand their digital footprint from an attacker's perspective.
Prioritize security efforts: Focus on mitigating the most critical vulnerabilities and risks.
Reduce the likelihood of successful attacks: Proactively address security gaps and strengthen defenses.
Improve incident response: Respond more quickly and effectively to security incidents.
ThreatNG is a comprehensive platform for External Attack Surface Management (EASM) and Digital Risk Protection (DRP). It provides organizations with enriched External Attack Surface Intelligence and a holistic understanding of their externally visible assets, associated vulnerabilities, and potential attack vectors.
External Discovery and Assessment
ThreatNG's external discovery engine excels at performing purely external, unauthenticated discovery to identify all internet-facing assets tied to an organization meticulously. This process yields a complete view of the attack surface as it appears to an external threat actor. Following discovery, the platform conducts external assessments to pinpoint potential vulnerabilities and security risks.
Examples of ThreatNG's External Assessment Capabilities:
Subdomain Takeover Susceptibility: ThreatNG analyzes critical domain elements like DNS records and SSL certificate statuses to evaluate the risk of subdomain takeovers. This allows organizations to proactively secure vulnerable subdomains, thwarting attackers' attempts to hijack them for malicious activities like phishing campaigns.
Code Secret Exposure: ThreatNG goes beyond traditional vulnerability scanning by identifying exposed code repositories and scrutinizing their contents for sensitive information. This capability detects leaked secrets like API keys, access tokens, and database credentials, enabling organizations to prevent attackers from exploiting them to gain unauthorized access to systems and data.
Cloud and SaaS Exposure: Recognizing the growing reliance on cloud environments, ThreatNG evaluates the security of cloud services and SaaS applications across various providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform). This assessment helps organizations identify and mitigate risks associated with misconfigurations or vulnerabilities in their cloud and SaaS deployments.
Online Sharing Exposure: ThreatNG extends its visibility to online sharing platforms (e.g., Pastebin, GitHub Gist, Scribd) to detect organizational entities and code shared publicly. This capability allows organizations to assess the risks of inadvertent data exposure and implement measures to protect sensitive information.
Mobile App Exposure: Understanding the risks posed by mobile applications, ThreatNG discovers and analyzes an organization's mobile apps for security vulnerabilities and sensitive information exposure. This assessment identifies issues like hardcoded credentials, which attackers could exploit.
Reporting, Continuous Monitoring, and Investigation Modules
ThreatNG empowers organizations with comprehensive tools to understand and respond to potential threats:
Reporting: ThreatNG provides a range of customizable reports, including executive summaries, technical reports, prioritized findings, security ratings, inventory reports, ransomware susceptibility assessments, and U.S. SEC filing analysis. These reports deliver actionable insights into an organization's security posture, facilitating effective prioritization of remediation efforts.
Continuous Monitoring: ThreatNG monitors external attack surfaces, digital risks, and security ratings. This proactive approach enables organizations to stay ahead of emerging threats and detect real-time changes in their security environment.
Investigation Modules: ThreatNG offers a suite of in-depth investigation modules that equip security teams to conduct detailed analyses of specific threats and vulnerabilities:
Domain Intelligence: This module provides a wealth of information about domains, including DNS records, email security configurations, WHOIS data, subdomain analysis, and associated technologies.
Sensitive Code Exposure: This module discovers and analyzes public code repositories to uncover exposed secrets and potential vulnerabilities.
Cloud and SaaS Exposure: This module identifies sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud services, SaaS applications, and potential misconfigurations.
Search Engine Exploitation: This module assesses the risk of information leakage and vulnerabilities exposed through search engines.
Sentiment and Financials: This module analyzes external data sources, such as news articles and SEC filings, to identify potential risks to an organization's reputation and financial stability.
Dark Web Presence: This module monitors the dark web for mentions of the organization, ransomware events, and compromised credentials.
Intelligence Repositories and Complementary Solutions
ThreatNG leverages extensive intelligence repositories that aggregate data on:
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This rich data provides valuable context for threat analysis and enables ThreatNG to deliver tailored threat intelligence, helping organizations prioritize critical threats effectively.
ThreatNG is designed to integrate seamlessly with complementary security solutions, enhancing its capabilities and fostering a holistic security ecosystem:
SIEM (Security Information and Event Management): ThreatNG's external threat intelligence can enrich SIEM alerts, providing valuable context and improving threat detection accuracy.
SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response): ThreatNG's findings can trigger automated responses in SOAR platforms, enabling faster and more efficient incident response.
Vulnerability Management: ThreatNG's external vulnerability assessments can supplement internal vulnerability scans, delivering a more comprehensive view of an organization's vulnerability posture.
Examples of ThreatNG Helping and Working with Complementary Solutions:
ThreatNG can identify a vulnerable web application and provide detailed vulnerability information to a SIEM system, generating a high-priority alert and triggering automated patching workflows.
ThreatNG can detect compromised credentials on the dark web and share this intelligence with a Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP). The TIP can then correlate this information with other threat data and proactively block malicious login attempts.
ThreatNG can discover an exposed cloud storage bucket and provide this finding to a vulnerability scanner, which can assess the bucket's access permissions and identify sensitive data at risk.
By focusing on delivering comprehensive External Attack Surface Intelligence, ThreatNG equips organizations with the visibility and actionable insights they need to identify and mitigate risks associated with their internet-facing assets proactively. This empowers organizations to strengthen their security posture, reduce their attack surface, and minimize the likelihood of successful cyberattacks.
