As your attack surface grows and the threat environment becomes increasingly complex, it’s more important than ever to take a risk-based approach to cybersecurity. By doing so, you can focus your limited resources on the areas that have the biggest impact on your security performance — empowering you to save time and money.
Of course, this type of approach requires you to be proactive as opposed to reactive. Instead of focusing on incident response, you can leverage automated threat intelligence gathering to help reduce the number of incidents that happen in the first place.
Threat intelligence is information on both current and potential risks that exist throughout your infrastructure and digital ecosystem. Having this knowledge at your fingertips helps you prevent future attacks and gain a better understanding of your overall cybersecurity posture.
These data-based insights — which are collected from a variety of sources — can provide context into threat actors targeting your organization, indicators of compromise across your network, and more. Essentially, this information helps you make more informed decisions regarding everything from improving incident prevention to automating remediation activities to closing any gaps in your security performance management program.
By collecting and analyzing threat intelligence, you can quickly identify areas of concern, determine when you need to conduct deeper testing, and mitigate risk more effectively. BitSight Security Ratings make this process easier than ever by automating the gathering of your threat intelligence insights to provide a real-time, externally observable measure of security performance.
The BitSight platform observes a variety of security events and configurations to generate an objective rating based on four categories of data: compromised systems, diligence, user behavior, and public disclosures. This process involves gathering threat intelligence from various sources and risk vectors, such as open ports, exposed credentials, malware servers, and botnet traffic.
With these real-time insights, you can streamline the process of:
By automating the gathering of your threat intelligence, you can establish a strong security performance management program, maintain a consistently clear and accurate picture of cybersecurity risk across your organization, and address pending threats quickly.
Interested in learning more about effective cyber risk reduction? Download our white paper, How to Reduce Risk in an Ever-Expanding Digital Ecosystem.
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