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Why You Need This

No one should operate blind, yet we do this day-in and day-out in the security realm as we try to protect our companies from cyberattacks and breaches. We don't have the insight we need, from failures in intelligence to short falls in understanding what assets are at risk -- if the assets to protect are known at all.This is where Cybergestalt comes in. By providing key insight and understanding of CSaaS attacks happening, cyber gestalt fills in those two very large gaps and others you may not have considered. For example, armed with information, you can:

Understand Why You Are Being Attacked

Why me? A common question and one that deserves an answer. At its simplest level, you are attacked because you have something the attacker wants or you are a convenient stop on the way to what the attacker wants. But, that's rarely satisfying as an answer. Cybergestalt helps you refine this answer into something much more useful:

  • You are attacked because data exists in the criminal world that points out the value that can be stolen -- and how to do so. For example, data that points to financial documents stored in an Azure cloud service. It talks about what is there and how its accessed. Equally, the CSaaS exploits the data to make sure access is present, even stealing the financial documents (the value) in some cases. The most common source of this data is infostealer, third parties, or data breaches.
  • Attacks happen because of something the CSaaS can find through reconnaissance is out of date (OOD) or end of life (EOL). For example, data that points to vulnerable version of software or your use of software that is no longer being maintained. The most common source of this data is reconnaissance.
  • CSaaS is armed (integrated) with exploits that abuse a technology, service, API or platform and attacks occur because of what the CSaaS can access to exploit. The most common source of this data is exploit availability combined with reconnaissance.

Know Where Data Is Leaking

Where did this data about me come from? How do attackers know this information? Very important questions that Cybergestalt helps answer. Knowing what data you have out there and where its coming from is crucial to sealing off attacks to keep them from doing harm.

  • Information lost by Third Parties is a rich source of this information. Data they lose, especially if they suffer a breach, leak, ransomware or similar event, hurts you right alongside of them. Cybergestalt can provide crucial insight into when this has happened -- especially when its not public or they haven't reported it to you.
  • Data you give away for free. This may not be top of mind, but the pursuit of business means we provide the public a lot of data that can also be turned against us. A necessary evil but one that can be predicted, planned for and mitigated as a threat.
  • Insider activity is another data origin that Cybergestalt can help reveal. Crucial information that is only knowable by an insider that makes it into CSaaS can be traced back to origin and managed to shut off the data supply.
  • Unknown leaks of data can be revealed by analyzing CSaaS attacks exposed by Cybergestalt.

Improve Your Security

You don't have to fight blind. Using the information provided by cybergestalt on CSaaS activities allows you to see the areas where automated attacks are focused. Will that information give you a view of everything? No. But, it will let you see 60% or more of attacks, especially those coming at your network and infrastructure from automated sources. And, more importantly, outline the crucial attacks that are antecedents of network compromise, intrusion, data breach, and ransomware.

  • How? Measuring the specific targets of CSaaS attacks and the methods of approach the CSaaS employed to perform the attack action. Example: CSaaS attack on accessing the company's managed file transfer (MFT) system. Underneath this topic, is the different attack paths the CSaaS attempted while exploiting the MFT system, from pre-registration of accounts to RCE exploits. Measuring what's attempted, the volume of attacks, and attack paths provides the insight needed to predict what will happen next. Especially as a response to security actions you take to prevent the activity.
  • How? Capturing CSaaS attack paths provides insight into the actual methods of abuse, versus prospective ones. CSaaS are creatures of profit. They sunset attacks that fail and attempt new ones regularly, or cycle an older one to see if their victim's security has changed. Continuously shutting down the attack paths CSaaS frameworks attempt, drives them to target elsewhere.
  • How? Cybergestalt keeps a finger on the pulse of CSaaS frameworks, even ones that are not attacking you right now. This means you have at your disposal a deep knowledge base of attacks CSaaS frameworks can employ against targets. You can review known attacks from CSaaS frameworks by technology, services, network/DNS, API, and other ways to ensure you have strengthened your security against attacks before CSaaS attacks begin.

Predict Attacks and Their Targets

You don't have to guess what part of your network will be attacked and at what volume. You can use cybergestalt to predict likely targets and attack paths to do so.  Use the Predict For Me service to enter information to understand how a portion of your network will be attacked.To do so, select an item from the list under the "Predict For Me" service. It will return a list of attack paths, likely payloads or data needed to perform the attack, and lastly equally likely sources of this data.