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Hoxhunt and Cyber Intelligence House Announce Partnership to Connect Cyber Threat Exposure With Employee Cyber Awareness

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Hoxhunt, a premium enterprise cybersecurity awareness training platform, and Cyber Intelligence House, a leading provider of cyber intelligence, today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership designed to equip organizations with unprecedented protection from email attacks leveraging advanced insight across their dark-web-to employee-inbox lifecycle.

Hoxhunt’s CEO, Mika Aalto stated:

“This partnership with Cyber Intelligence House will open a whole new category of proactive cybersecurity awareness. Their industry-leading Cyber Exposure Platform adds a superior breadth and depth of intelligence from the Darkweb, Deep web and cyberspace forums and marketplaces to our dynamic awareness platform, typically 16 times more data than other solutions. By connecting threat intelligence with awareness, we can transform insight into foresight. Just imagine knowing an attack is likely coming and being able to train your employees with simulations of the actual phishing templates hackers purchased for their attack”.


“We are very excited to be partnering with Hoxhunt. Their best-in-class Cyber Awareness and Training platform allows organisations to adapt and defend against the ever rising volume of cyber threats that our platform identifies”.

Cyber Intelligence House’s CEO, Mikko Niemela

About Hoxhunt:

Hoxhunt is a People-First Cybersecurity Platform that protects organizations and their employees from the risk of cyber attacks. Hoxhunt’s cognitive automation maps individually adaptive training curriculum to each employee’s skill level for optimal engagement. Hoxhunt empowers individuals with the tools and confidence to recognize and respond to attacks dynamically over time.

Hoxhunt enables security teams with real-time visibility into threats so they can react fast and limit their spread. The entire platform is autonomous, freeing up considerable time for security teams to focus on what matters.

About Cyber Intelligence House:

Cyber Intelligence House is a leading cyber intelligence company specialised in helping cyber security professionals and law enforcement to assess and monitor cyber exposure from the dark web, deep web, data breaches and online-assets. It is the trusted provider to government and law enforcement agencies globally, including Interpol and UNODC.

Cyber Intelligence House’s Cyber Exposure Platform (CEP) provides the world’s most comprehensive Cyber Threat database with over 10 years of data. 24/7 and collection and storing of new data at a rate of ~600 pages per second. CEP delivers unrivalled search and alerting performance with Deep scanning of over 250 metadata factors and machine learning enabled categorization of threats to provide deep insights into potential cyber threats.

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