Continuous Threat Exposure Management

Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) serves as the fundamental core module within the NST Assure platform, providing unmatched visibility into an organization's external attack surface and the accompanying risks

Threat Surfaces Across All Channels & Asset Types

Ensuring active management of threat surfaces across all channels and asset types to enable a comprehensive visibility and understanding of the security landscape and proactive vulnerability remediation
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Apps and Infra

  • Web Apps
  • APIs & Services
  • Mobiles Apps & Cloud Apps
  • Storage and Services
  • Infrastructure Assets
02

Environments

  • On-Premise
  • Cloud
  • Hybrid
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Channels

  • Internet
  • Deep Web
  • Dark Web
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Components

  • Frontend/Backend Libraries
  • SDKs/Plugins
  • Shared Services

Perimeter Security Control Validation

Ongoing validation of perimeter security controls, guaranteeing sustained protection and security control effectiveness
Technology
Advantages
Functions

Perimeter Security Control Validation

Actionable Threat Informed Defense (CTID) Intelligence

Utilizing intelligence-driven insights to inform threat defense strategies and decision-making

AI/ML-Assisted Vulnerability and Risk Prioritization

AI/ML assistance for effective vulnerability and risk prioritization, maximizing security efforts

Focus on
Vulnerabilities

Prioritizing critical vulnerabilities through focused threat surface testing, optimizing resource allocation

On-Demand Support for Security Assessment

Offering on-demand support for security assessments to ensure comprehensive evaluations

Sensitive Discovery Immediate Notification

Immediate notifications upon sensitive data discovery, enabling prompt protective action

Timely Inadvertent Exposure Discovery and Validation

Swift detection and validation of inadvertent exposures, minimizing risks to data and operations

AI/ML-Powered
Threat Prediction

Leveraging AI/ML for predictive threat analysis and proactive threat mitigation

Dynamic Exposure Risk Scoring and Trend Analysis

Scoring exposure risks dynamically and analyzing trends to adapt security measures in real-time

Safe and Controlled Exploitation to Measure Actual Business Impact

Conducting safe and controlled exploitation exercises to assess the real business impact of vulnerabilities and inform mitigation decisions

Asset-Focused
Threat Profiling

Profiling threats with a specific focus on assets to enhance decision making

Related Security Breaches
and Incidents

Monitoring and responding to security breaches and related incidents to maintain organizational security

Continuous Monitoring

Continuously discover all exposed assets across all channels, unearth potential threat vectors, validate exposures, and analyze their impact for a comprehensive approach to security

Across all Channels & Assets Types

In-Depth Discovery

Uses machine intelligence to find all your online assets, including those linked to third-party and fourth party partners

All Channels

Continuously monitors for threats across all online  channels:
  • Internet
  • Deep Web
  • Dark Web

Actionable Insights

Provides valuable security advice and actionable steps to improve your overall security

Risk Dynamics

Continuous and dynamic exposure risk scoring and trend analysis

All Possible Attack Vectors and Vulnerabilities

Discoveries beyond passive observations leveraging active enumeration algorithms
Vulnerabilities and Exposures across all types of environments and workloads
Identifies potential attack vectors that Threat Actors might use to gain Initial Access
Mimics Tactics and Techniques of real-world adversaries - aligned with MITRE PRE ATT&CK

Exposure Discovery and Validation

Detect and validate unintentional data and asset exposures of all types before they're misused by attackers
Unintended Asset Exposures
Misconfigurations in Cloud Assets
Unencrypted Communication Channels
Sensitive Path Exposures
Use of Default Credentials
Leaked Organization Data from Public Breaches
Personal/Payment Information Leaks
Insecure Service Exposures
Sensitive Data Leakage Through Meta Files
Hard-coded Credentials & Other Sensitive Data in Exposed Code Repositories
Accidental Data Leaks
Configuration Flaws
Unsecured Databases

Agentic AI -Assisted Exposure Assessment & Adversarial Validation

Revolutionize security defense with threat profiling, AI/ML-driven predictions, component vulnerability analysis, and automated validation

Threat Profiling

Proactive Scouting

Proactive scouting of vulnerabilities that could be exploited by adversaries such as APTs, ransomware, or targeted attack groups

Threat Profiling

Asset Centric Threat Profiling that aids in proper impact analysis and decision-making

Correlation

Dynamic correlation of exposure and possible security risks with the help of AI/ML-powered discovery and validation

Removal

AI/ML powered false-positive removal through correlation and historical vulnerability analysis

Threat prediction

Preemptive response against cyber threats with AI/ML-powered, algorithmic threat prediction based on
Potential Business Impact
Exposure Factors
Exploit Availability
Attack Trends
Industry and Regional Relevance of Adversary
Possibility of Vulnerability Chaining

Threat prediction

Validation of attack surface data with Machine Learning to ensure accuracy and confidence

Component Vulnerability Analysis

Threat Prediction
PSDK-Specific Analysis
Real-time Continuous Monitoring
Vulnerability Database Cross-Correlation
Zero-day Risk Prioritization with ML
Deep Component
Plugin Vulnerability Profiling
Library Risk Assessment

Automated Validation and Contextualization

Automated Assessments

AI & ML-Enhanced Threat Surface Testing for Proactive Vulnerability Validation, Focused Remediation, and Safe Exploitation Assessment

Threat Surface Testing Against Top Priority Threat Surface Observations

Protection

Proactive protection against potential cyber attacks through continuous identification and validation of vulnerabilities

Discovery

Continuous discovery for new and trending vulnerabilities to keep defenses up-to-date

Prioritize

Efficient remediation management by prioritizing vulnerabilities based on risk levels

Focus

Focus on incident response of high-priority tasks instead of getting lost in vulnerability noise

That Really Needs Attention with Threat Surface Testing

Focus on the small fraction of identified     vulnerabilities that require urgent remediation
Targeted and efficient risk management of high-priority, high-risk observations that demand immediate action
Vulnerability and Risk Prioritization to curate the most business-impacting vulnerabilities based on:
• Asset Context
• Deployment Models
• Vulnerability Trends Adversary Regional Relevance

To Measure Actual Business Impact Before Attackers Does

Cyber Hygiene

Understanding likelihood and severity of potential attacks for maintaining cyber hygiene and reducing cyberattack risks

Thwart Attacker Attempts

Evaluation of the exploitability of sensitive vulnerabilities identified by Threat Surface Discovery to thwart attacker attempts

Fortify

Safe validation of exploitability to close attack vectors and fortify security infrastructure

Commercial Impact

Simulation of complex, real-world attacker strategies and tactics to ensure comprehensive and precise evaluations of vulnerabilities and their commercial impact

Threat Emulation Based on Trends

Auto-triggered penetration testing activated by changes in security posture for real-time vulnerability assessment
Real-time, adaptive testing keeps pace with evolving security configurations for continuous protection
Consistently identify the potential for zero-day and trending vulnerabilities and tracking their potential for exploitation
Periodic emulation of adversary behavior and the evaluation of security controls' resilience

Prioritized Risk Identification

Empower Security Decision-Making with AI/ML: Prioritize Vulnerabilities, Assess Risk, Analyze Trends, and Enhance Security

Vulnerability and Risk Prioritization

Curation

Algorithmic curation of small percentage of vulnerabilities that need immediate attention

Focus

Special focus on vulnerabilities that are more likely to be exploited by attackers for initial access

Prioritize

Prioritizing vulnerabilities based on asset context and potential business impact

Exploitation

Controlled and production safe exploitation of vulnerabilities picked up based on adversary trends

Exposure Risk Scoring

Programmatic computation of inherent risk across asset exposure categories in a dynamic fashion
Programmatic computation of inherent risk across asset exposure categories in a dynamic fashion
  • Validated Direct and Associated Vulnerabilities
  • Context and criticality
  • Service Exposure
Continuously refreshed organizational risk exposure metrics to support informed decision-making

Meaningful Trend Analysis and Metrics

Historical analysis of the asset category and organization-wide risk scoring for trend analysis
Continuous tracking of external security posture for tracking the effectiveness of security practices and solutions
Near-real-time overview of organization's external security to analyze shifts in security practices
Key metrics for CISOs to gauge ROI from diverse external security investments

Data Driven Adaptive Intelligence

Uncover

Uncovering hidden threats and vulnerabilities through ML-powered data pattern correlation across exposure datasets

Track

Track changes in organization threats and vulnerabilities over time to understand and reduce risks effectively

Correlation

Continuous correlation of adversary threat intelligence with exposure data and vulnerability information for adaptive security measures

Intelligence

Predictive intelligence for well-informed vulnerability treatment decisions

Swift Threat Detection & Response

Immediate Sensitive Discovery and Expert Guidance: Empower Blue Teams with Validated Zero-Day Intelligence and Timely Vulnerability Insights for Enhanced Security

Immediate Notification

Immediate notification of sensitive security observations of Critical and High nature
Empower blue teams to proactively address sensitive security observations and prevent potential security breaches
Timely intelligence with validation of exploitability
  • Vulnerabilities
  • Misconfigurations
  • Inadvertent Exposures of all Types

Zero Day Intelligence

Defense

Active threat defense to safeguard organizations sensitive data and system

Protection

Proactive system protection with updated zero-day vulnerability data for blue teams

Insights

Insights from trending vulnerabilities to strengthen risk mitigation

Zero-day

Timely and rigorous confirmation of zero-day vulnerability exploitability and impact

Meaningful Trend Analysis and Metrics

Immediate support and assistance from elite penetration testers for real-time external attack surface observations or queries
Confidently address high-severity vulnerabilities with expert-vetted revalidation
Collaborate closely with high-caliber experts in the field to gain insights into your organization's external attack surface
Receive guidance tailored to your specific needs

Vulnerability Intelligence

Timely

Prompt and timely vulnerability intelligence for taking action to mitigate the risk before it is exploited by adversaries

Consumable

Consumable vulnerability intelligence feeds with actionable remediation guidance

Adversary Insights

Insights on Adversary Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) for better defense planning

Zero-day

Passive and component enumeration validation support for the latest Zero Days with no public exploits

Cyber Threat Informed Defense (CTID)

Enhance your security posture with continuous perimeter control validation, cyber threat Informed defense intelligence, rapid threat response, and dynamic external cyber resilience

Security Control Validation

Continuous verification of existence of external security controls
Meaningful metrics to calculate the ROI from various external security solutions
Frequent validation of effectiveness perimeter security controls with latest evasive techniques and payloads
  • WAF
  • WAAP
  • CDN/ALB/SLB
  • Security Gateways and Firewalls
  • DNS Security Email Security
Intelligence on security control optimization and strategies for improved security posture

Cyber Threat Informed Defense (CTID) Intelligence

Defense Instrumentation

Conversion of threat surface observations to improve security posture with defense instrumentation

Machine Readable

Translation of security control evasion intelligence to Machine Readable Threat Intelligence (MRTI)

Actionable

Actionable and machine ingestible threat intelligence for dynamic defense rule optimization

Integrated

Support for upstream integration of defense intelligence data with security gateways

Continuous Threat Surface Observability

Intelligence for custom continuous security monitoring policies tailor-made based on threat surface observations
Support for proactive monitoring of probable attack attempts against vulnerabilities that are not yet remediated
Curated threat intelligence sharing based on industry vertical and relevance for improved threat detection
Swift identification and prioritization of potential threats for immediate investigation and response

External Cyber Resilience

Dynamic Defense

Dynamic refreshing of the external cyber security controls and its effectiveness with changes in external security posture

Control Validation

Improved assurance with continuous validation of security controls against all possible attack scenarios

Measurable

Continuous measurement of tolerance against residual and inherent threats from attack surface

Contextualized

Targeted response based on asset value and contextualization instead of a one-size-fits-all approach

Compliance Assurance

Transform Compliance Assurance: With Real-time Monitoring, Proactive Threat Management, Better ROI, and Adaptable Framework for Seamless Compliance

Compliance Assurance

Real-time visibility into your external compliance landscape, continuously and actively scanning for vulnerabilities that may violate compliance regulations like:
  • PCI DSS
  • GDPR
  • HIPAA
  • NIST
  • CMMC
  • ISO 27001
The integrated compliance strategy seamlessly integrates real-time monitoring with compliance goals into continuous threat exposure management

Compliance Surveillance and Insights

Proactive external threat management, enabling enterprises to spot vulnerabilities, assess risks, implement tailored remediation, and ensure ongoing compliance for robust cyber defense

Identification of Weak Points in Attack Landscape

Ranking of Threats Through Risk Assessment

Implementation of Tailored Action Plans for Remediation

Provision of Real-time Oversight for Compliance

Better ROI through effortless, proactive compliance management integrated with cyber threat management

Compliance Benefits

Simplify the intricate maze of compliance standards like PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, NIST, CMMC, and ISO 27001 through continuous posture analysis
Transforms compliance management from an obligation into a competitive edge with a proactive approach
Designed for optimal efficiency to save time and resources with the reduced likelihood of non-compliance fines and legal costs, offering long-term economic benefits
With automated risk assessments and remediation suggestions, reduce the manpower needed for compliance upkeep

Compliance Framework

Better ROI through effortless, proactive compliance management integrated with cyber threat management

Dynamic Updates to Keep Pace with New Regulatory Norms

Scalability to Fit Diverse Organizational Needs Across Industries

Seamless Integration with Existing Security Infrastructure

Data-driven Insights to Fuel Effective Decision-making and Strategic Adjustments

Instant Audit-ready Reporting for Hassle-free Compliance Verification

Adaptability for Quick Alignment with Evolving Regulations

Evolve compliance from a checkbox task into a robust lever for driving operational efficiency, strategic adaptability, and industry leadership

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