Through technology, threats are advancing
For years, sophisticated cyber threats have used dynamic infrastructure, and rotate through exploits and backdoors, to frustrate detection and response efforts. As cheap and relatively anonymous cloud based resources have become available, it has only increased the speed and ease a cyber-adversary can alter their attack fingerprints. Exploits and new capabilities are also rapidly shared amongst hacker groups, the cleverness of one is leveraged by all. This creates a seemingly impossible situation for the good guys.
What is at risk?
Success in defending against sophisticated threats usually comes after experiencing multiple, very damaging intrusions. Revenue loss, loss of market value, damage to reputation and loss of intellectual property are all possible results of sophisticated cyber attack. This is due to each entity and organization being left to learn lessons on its own. Not only is the response expensive, but you may have already lost your company's most important assets, making any new investments useless.
Is there a solution?
Given the enormous risk, and technical threat advancement, Cyber Squared knew that a new type of response was needed. The only response that made sense was to counter sophisticated threats, and their targeted attacks, by uniting the efforts of security analysts and researchers across the industry. Together we could limit the threat's ability to operate, and predict where they would go next. Through ‘crowdsourcing’, our collective threat intelligence increases over time and increases our ability to effectively cage our common cyber enemies. It was this thinking that led us to create ThreatConnect; a public (ThreatConnect.com), hybrid (Cloud Hosted), and private cloud product available from Cyber Squared.
What is ThreatConnect?
ThreatConnect.com allows the cyber security community to input and share threat indicators, crowdsource cyber analysis problems, collaborate across security events, provide common reporting, and most importantly - protect their organizations against sophisticated cyber threats. ThreatConnect’s powerful, automated threat analysis engine allows organizations to manage cyber threats throughout their lifecycle and pay attention to what matters, so they can take focused defensive actions. ThreatConnect.com builds awareness of cyber threats more effectively than any tool on the market.
Why use it?
Without a shared understanding of the threat, we will not be fully prepared for its advances. If we come together as a community and combine our strengths we can collectively stop the sophisticated cyber threat.
”All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”
Edmund Burke
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