Social Media

Eliminate the Narrative Risk Gap: Gain Control Over Your Human Attack Surface and Pre-Empt Executive Compromise

Your organization has responsibly invested in perimeter and vulnerability defense, but your external narrative remains the single most considerable unmanaged security risk. Sophisticated attacks rarely start with a CVE; they begin with reconnaissance on your people and public chatter on platforms like Reddit and LinkedIn. ThreatNG’s Social Media Investigation Module is the dedicated solution that transforms this Conversational Attack Surface chaos into Decisive Security Insight. As a core component of our Digital Risk Protection framework, the Social Media Investigation Module proactively identifies high-value employee exposure and public discussions of vulnerabilities, enabling you to stop managing reactive security fire drills and start executing Targeted Reconnaissance Neutralization.

The ThreatNG Social Media Investigation Module is the first solution engineered to close this complete gap, transforming public intent and shadow identities into a proactive shield for your organization.

Username Exposure

Defeat Executive Extortion and the Shadow Identity Crisis

While our comprehensive Social Media Investigation Module ensures proactive monitoring of the Conversational Attack Surface—turning public chatter and narrative risk into a protective shield—the most significant risk often lies in the shadows. The Username Exposure module is the critical layer that defeats the attacker's foundational Passive Reconnaissance efforts. It moves beyond monitoring conversations to neutralize the Shadow Identity Crisis — the unmanaged, weaponizable digital footprint of your executives and key personnel. This module delivers the crucial External Adversary View required to instantly detect if high-value aliases are currently Available on high-risk or Not Safe For Work (NSFW) sites , enabling you to enact prophylactic registration and eliminate severe Reputational Contamination Risk before an attacker can launch a targeted attack.

Reddit Discovery

Your Early Warning System on the Conversational Attack Surface

With over 73 million daily active users, Reddit has become the de facto public incubator for cyber threats, where data breaches are discussed before they are disclosed and adversary TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) are workshopped in plain sight. Our Reddit Discovery module acts as your intelligence operative within this chaotic landscape, automatically correlating every relevant mention against our intelligence repositories. We instantly validate every mention by automatically correlating it across our entire ecosystem of intelligence, checking chatter against everything from our DarCache repositories for vulnerabilities and compromised credentials to our investigation modules for domain impersonations, code exposures, and cloud misconfigurations. This transforms unstructured noise into a validated, early-warning signal, enabling you to address the threat before it affects your organization proactively.

LinkedIn Discovery

Threat Precursor Intelligence: Close the Human Attack Surface (HAS) Gap and Neutralize Social Engineering Reconnaissance

The modern threat landscape dictates that an adversary's first step is rarely a network scan—it is often an efficient, passive search across professional platforms. The Social Media Investigation Module proactively safeguards your organization by transforming publicly available information—the external "Human Attack Surface" —into actionable defense. Specifically, the LinkedIn Discovery capability closes the critical intelligence gap by conducting targeted reconnaissance searches for your company name. This delivers the precise, prioritized list of individuals who may be "first to experience social engineering attacks", giving your security leadership the control to deploy immediate, intelligence-led controls and disrupt the adversary's attack planning at its earliest stage.

Mitigate Career-Ending Regulatory Fines Before the Breach is Public

A failure to monitor external exposure—such as an exposed executive profile leading to a phishing breach—is a documented GRC failure. The Social Media Investigation Module provides essential, verifiable evidence of continuous due diligence, helping protect your organization from the high financial losses associated with compliance penalties. Our External GRC Monitoring capability automatically incorporates human-sourced risk findings, strengthening your compliance standing across major global frameworks:

GDPR and HIPAA: Proactively demonstrate monitoring of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) exposure risk originating from social engineering vectors.
PCI DSS and NIST CSF: Ensure your external security posture, now inclusive of the Human Attack Surface, aligns with mandatory compliance standards.
The SMIM provides external, unauthenticated data that feeds directly into your External GRC Assessment, ensuring total accountability and compliance assurance.

Stop Wasting Resources. Focus Protection on the Employees the Adversary Targets Most

Standard Digital Risk Protection treats all employee exposure equally, leading to wasted security awareness efforts. ThreatNG provides Strategic Control over the human perimeter by by fusing data from:

LinkedIn Discovery: Identifies employees most susceptible to social engineering attacks.
NHI Email Exposure: Correlates the exposed profile with high-value technical and administrative roles, including Admin, Security, DevOps, Account, and Integration emails.
Targeted Protection: By unifying these data points with compromised credentials (DarCache Rupture), the SMIM provides a high-fidelity, prioritized list of individuals who pose the most significant risk, drastically reducing your overall BEC & Phishing Susceptibility.

Justify Security Spend to the Boardroom with Business-Context Intelligence

External social intelligence is useless if it cannot be translated into strategic, prioritized action. The SMIM is engineered to deliver Pre-Compromise Intelligence by automatically translating raw findings (e.g., public discussion of a technical flaw or exposed credentials) into an adversary narrative using MITRE ATT&CK Mapping.

Strategic Control: We map the discovered human or conversational exposure directly to MITRE ATT&CK techniques (Initial Access, Reconnaissance), allowing security leaders to prioritize remediation based on the specific exploitation paths an adversary is pursuing.
Decisive Insight: This precise mapping transforms unstructured social data into Prioritized Reports, providing the necessary "business context" to justify security investments and demonstrate proactive defense to the board.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): ThreatNG Social Media Investigation Module (Social Media Investigation Module)

Why Social Media Investigation Module is Essential for Digital Risk Resilience

Traditional DRP focuses on confirming the outcome of a compromise, such as tracking exposed credentials in Dark Web repositories (DarCache Rupture). The Social Media Investigation Module (Social Media Investigation Module) is essential because it is a pre-emptive solution that secures the unmanaged Human Attack Surface and Conversational Attack Surface.
- Proactively identifies the adversary’s plans and reconnaissance efforts (Reddit Discovery) before they mature into a technical attack.
- Traditional DRP Reactively: Confirms that credentials or data have already been compromised (Compromised Credentials, Data Leak Susceptibility).
The Social Media Investigation Module moves your defense timeline far upstream, providing decisive security insights that allow you to neutralize a threat vector before the Initial Access phase of a breach, thereby completing your organization’s external protective shield.
A social engineering attack that results in the exposure of PII (Personally Identifiable Information)—traced back to an exposed employee profile via LinkedIn Discovery—can be classified as a failure of due diligence, leading to significant regulatory fines.
The Social Media Investigation Module provides continuous, verifiable, external evidence of due diligence by actively monitoring the human perimeter for PII and sensitive data exposure. This capability directly strengthens your External GRC Assessment and mitigates financial exposure by providing monitoring evidence for five critical GRC frameworks: PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, NIST CSF, and POPIA.
The Social Media Investigation Module focuses on securing the "keys to the kingdom"—the privileged, highly targeted roles most critical to organizational operations and technical security.
The module uses LinkedIn Discovery to identify employees most susceptible to social engineering attacks. This is then correlated with our NHI Email Exposure feature, which groups all discovered emails associated with high-value roles such as: Admin, Security, Devops, Account, Integration, RDP, VPN, and SSH.
By targeting the external exposure of these specific, high-risk functions, Social Media Investigation Module drastically reduces your organization's overall BEC & Phishing Susceptibility. It protects the leadership layer from sophisticated corporate espionage.

Technical and Operational Integration

The Social Media Investigation Module data is integrated to improve operational efficiency and support strategic justification, ensuring all human-sourced risk intelligence is unified and actionable without altering core risk scores.
- Unified Command: All Social Media Investigation Module findings are managed within the Reconnaissance Hub, the platform's unified command interface. This fusion enables security teams to find, validate, and prioritize human-sourced threats alongside technical findings (such as CVEs) in minutes, effectively transforming "chaotic manual searching into decisive security insight".
- Strategic Context: Crucial qualitative context needed to understand why an existing risk score is high and where to focus mitigation efforts first, focusing on the high-value employees identified through NHI Email Exposure.
- Boardroom Reporting: The actionable intelligence, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK , is automatically included in Executive Reports. This ensures security leaders can "justify security investments to the boardroom with business context" by showing how the SMIM proactively identifies and neutralizes adversary TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) associated with Initial Access and Reconnaissance.