earthwave

Threat Intelligence

Challenge

The first step in organisations securing their IT infrastructure is understanding where threats and vulnerabilities exist. However, for each new security vulnerability discovered, organisations must know when the alert was released, how the network infrastructure could be impacted, and how the problem can be preemptively addressed. Finding reliable answers can take hours. That is because IT security personnel face:

• Too much data - Hundreds of public and private organisations report vulnerabilities each year. Security personnel often must search through dozens of mailing lists and Websites for data.
• Too many formats - New alerts can be published by dozens of different sources, each in its own format, using different processes to characterise, confirm, and report each problem.
• Difficulty evaluating alerts - With so many bodies publishing alerts, security staffs are challenged to find objective information about how critical a threat or vulnerability is to their environment.
• Difficulty tracking remediation status and progress - Few organisations have systems in place to effectively track the status of remediation efforts.

Solution

Earthwave Threat Intelligence Service is a threat and vulnerability alerting service that allows organisations to easily access timely, accurate information about potential threats and vulnerabilities in their environment - without time-consuming research. The service provides the comprehensive, cost-effective security intelligence organisations need to prevent, mitigate, and remediate potential IT attacks and more effectively help ensure business continuity and network availability.

Organisations using the earthwave Threat Intelligence Service can customise the service by defining the unique networks, systems, and applications that make up their infrastructure, as well as criteria using a standardised risk rating system to determine the threats and vulnerabilities that affect them. The service then provides vendor-neutral intelligence alerts that are prefiltered to deliver only the relevant information, arming security personnel with the information they need to take rapid action and protect critical systems. As a result, security personnel can work more quickly and efficiently and can more effectively, prioritise remediation activities.