ENTERPRISE SECURITY,PLATFORM SECURITY,SOFTWARE SECURITY
Searchlight Security | December 16, 2022
Searchlight Security, the dark web intelligence company, has today launched Ransomware Search and Insights, a new strategic enhancement to its Cerberus platform. Ransomware Search and Insights automatically collates data from active ransomware groups to help organizations and law enforcement agencies to investigate, track, and gather intelligence on live ransomware activity.
This curated view of ransomware groups means that patterns in tactics, incidents, and victimology can be observed in real-time, helping analysts to bolster their threat intelligence, and gain the upper hand on ransomware groups.
"Although ransomware has been one of the most pressing threats for several years, it still remains persistent because security teams and law enforcement agencies have been on the back foot, playing catch-up with the ever changing tactics and profiles of ransomware groups. “With visibility into the dark web presence of active ransomware threat actors, analysts can better understand how they are currently operating, therefore gaining a critical advantage over groups.”
Dr. Gareth Owenson, Co-Founder and CTO of Searchlight Security
Enabling Enterprises to Pre-empt Attacks
Ransomware Search and Insights allows organizations to observe the victims of threat actors, posts on leak sites, and track known group members, all in one place - significantly reducing time and resources spent individually researching each threat group. With previously unseen insight into ransomware activity as it is happening, they can also identify which ransomware groups are targeting organizations that match their profile (e.g. industry, geography, business size) and tailor their defenses with a better understanding of which group is most likely to attack them.
Empowering Law Enforcement
Cerberus’ Ransomware Search and Insights provides investigators with the most up-to-date intelligence for their fight back against cybercrime. Ransomware groups pose a significant risk to national security through the persistent threat to critical infrastructure. As ransomware groups use the dark web to conduct their campaigns with impunity, tracking the activity of prolific threat actors on marketplaces and forums can help law enforcement agencies’ efforts to disrupt and take down these groups.
“The Ransomware Search and Insights module was born from our work with national law enforcement agencies who require real-time insights to investigate and take down ransomware groups. We have listened to and collaborated with them to address these needs and bring the next evolution of threat hunting to life,” explained Dr. Gareth Owenson, Co-Founder and CTO of Searchlight Security. “Investigators can now work smarter, not harder, with live intelligence on ransomware operators collated and delivered to them.”
Ransomware Intelligence for MSSPs
Dark web monitoring is emerging as one of the fastest growing offerings amongst Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), driven in no small part by increased customer demand to stay one step ahead of attackers and prevent disruptive ransomware incidents. Ransomware Search and Insights provides MSSPs with a valuable tool that integrates into their existing offering, with the ability to deliver easy-to-digest overviews of ransomware activity to customers, or action intelligence internally to protect their client base from emerging threats.
Ransomware Search and Insights is now available on Cerberus.
For more information on the threat intelligence that can be gathered from Ransomware Search and Insights, download our free report: Dark Web Profiles: The Most Prolific Ransomware Groups of 2022.
About Searchlight Security
Searchlight Security provides organizations with relevant and actionable dark web threat intelligence, to help them identify and prevent criminal activity. Founded in 2017 with a mission to stop criminals acting with impunity on the dark web, we have been involved in some of the world’s largest dark web investigations and have the most comprehensive dataset based on proprietary techniques and ground-breaking academic research. Today we help government and law enforcement, enterprises, and managed security services providers around the world to illuminate deep and dark web threats and prevent attacks.
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PLATFORM SECURITY,SOFTWARE SECURITY
Phosphorus | December 13, 2022
Phosphorus, the leading provider of proactive and full-scope security for the extended Internet of Things (xIoT), today announced new security features that will enable organizations to discover and monitor their networks for the presence of xIoT devices that the U.S. government deems a significant security risk. The new features also include the capability to remotely disable and remove the devices from the network.
Phosphorus’s security update follows the FCC’s ban on the sale or importation of devices made by several Chinese manufacturers that it considers to pose “an unacceptable risk to national security of the United States or the security or safety of United States persons.” The Covered List includes video surveillance and telecommunications equipment produced by Huawei Technologies, ZTE Corporation, Hytera Communications, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, and Dahua Technology (and their subsidiaries and affiliates).
“The Phosphorus xIoT Security Platform is the industry’s only solution that can discover the presence of these prohibited devices and remotely render them inert at scale. “These unique capabilities will empower enterprises and government organizations across the U.S. to discover, disable, and remove banned or potentially dangerous devices from their enterprise environments.”
John Vecchi, Chief Marketing Officer at Phosphorus
Advanced Discovery Capability
A recent study by Phosphorus’s global research division, Phosphorus Labs, found that organizations consistently struggle to identify all of their xIoT devices – this means many companies may not realize they have banned devices lurking inside their networks. According to its research, 80% of enterprise security teams can’t identify the majority of their xIoT devices and customer estimates of xIoT inventories are consistently off by 40-60%.
Phosphorus’s Enterprise xIoT Security Platform has unique capabilities for discovering xIoT assets, and it is the only technology platform able to communicate with these devices (ranging from security cameras to PLCs) in their native languages. This enables a high degree of accuracy, granularity, and speed when discovering and analyzing these devices to create comprehensive inventories of xIoT assets that include device type, brand, model, firmware version, credential status, default/enabled protocols, certificate status, and more.
Disabling and Isolating High-Risk Devices
Phosphorus empowers organizations by giving them direct control over every single device in their wide-ranging xIoT deployments. Through the platform’s Hardening and Remediation capabilities, organizations can update and rotate a device’s credentials, manage firmware, disable remote services, turn off unnecessary connectivity features, check for valid certificates, and reboot the device.
For organizations that have detected banned xIoT technologies in their networks, specific device-level actions such as changing passwords, disabling services and reducing connectivity will be critical for limiting the potential risks of these devices prior to their removal from the network.
World’s First and Only Proactive xIoT Security Platform
Phosphorus’s Enterprise xIoT Security Platform is the industry’s only consolidated xIoT security offering, delivering state-of-the-art Attack Surface Management, Hardening and Remediation, and Detection and Response across the full range of IoT, OT, and Network-connected devices – spanning both new and legacy devices.
For the first time in industry history, teams in IT, Facilities, and Security are able to collaborate on a single platform to safely discover, assess, remediate, and monitor their xIoT devices. Phosphorus is now the solution of choice for enterprises to secure devices that were previously unknown or overlooked, beginning with fundamental xIoT security hygiene.
The company’s Enterprise xIoT Security Platform is currently deployed in Fortune 100, Fortune 500, and government networks.
ABOUT PHOSPHORUS
Phosphorus Cybersecurity® is the leading xTended Security of Things™ platform designed to secure the rapidly growing and often unmonitored Things across the enterprise xIoT landscape. Our Enterprise xIoT Security Platform delivers Attack Surface Management, Hardening & Remediation, and Detection & Response to bring enterprise xIoT security to every cyber-physical Thing in your enterprise environment. With unrivaled xIoT discovery and posture assessment, Phosphorus automates the remediation of the biggest IoT, OT, and Network device vulnerabilities—including unknown and inaccurate asset inventory, out-of-date firmware, default credentials, risky configurations, and out-of-date certificates.
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ENTERPRISE SECURITY,PLATFORM SECURITY,SOFTWARE SECURITY
Telos Corporation | January 09, 2023
SteelCloud LLC, a leading CIS and STIG compliance automation software developer and Telos Corporation, a renowned provider of cyber, enterprise, and cloud security solutions to the world's most security-conscious organizations, recently announced entering into a partnership to assist customers in reducing the complexity of NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) compliance. Customers gain access to all seven RMF phases via a unified, automated solution.
SteelCloud's ConfigOS capabilities take care of the identify/ categorize, select, and implement components of RMF for technical assets. ConfigOS examines an asset, determining whether Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) apply, scanning against the STIG standards, identifying compliance indicators, and automating the remediation of findings. Meanwhile, Xacta incorporates and uses this information during the RMF's assessment and authorization processes, as well as when the monitor step is initiated once authorization to operate (ATO) is obtained.
Working together, ConfigOS and Xacta drive decisions to address identification and selection problems while reporting important indicator metrics required to achieve and sustain ATO. STIG and vulnerability data from ConfigOS are integrated into Xacta and mapped to appropriate requirements as part of Assessment and Authorization (A&A), providing customers with a streamlined approach to gaining necessary permissions. Xacta's workflow automation streamlines the whole NIST RMF workflow, managing validation, analysis, documentation, and accreditation processes from start to end.
About Telos Corporation
Telos Corporation provides solutions for continuous security assurance of personnel, systems, and information to the world's most security-conscious enterprises, empowering and protecting them. The company offers enterprise security solutions for identity and access management, organizational messaging, secure mobility, and network management and defense. Telos Corporation serves commercial organizations, regulated sectors, and government customers all around the world.
About SteelCloud
SteelCloud is a company that creates STIG and CIS compliance software for government and business clients. The company's product reduces the complexity, effort, and cost of implementing federal security standards by automating policy and security repair. SteelCloud has provided enterprise-wide security policy-compliant solutions, easing setup, and ongoing security and compliance support. SteelCloud goods are simple to obtain through our GSA Schedule 70 contract.
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