Why Do I Need Threat Actor Profiling?
Threat actor profiling determines the critical threats pertinent to an organisation. It requires a nuanced understanding, influenced by factors such as industry sectors, supply chains, geographical presence, executive profiles, corporate image, and perceived data accessibility by threat actors.
How Would My Most Relevant Adversaries Actually Launch a Cyber Attack Against Me and with What?
Gaining insights into not only potential threat actors but also their preferred tools, tactics, and modus operandi, as well as how they have tailored their attacks to similar organisations within your industry verticals, constitutes invaluable intelligence for strengthening your defence mechanisms.
The process of strengthening your defence systems and crafting bespoke rules to prompt alerts in your security tools can be extensive and seemingly perpetual. However, when approached with a focus on relevance, your organisation can develop tailored defences and custom rules aimed at detecting and repelling attacks aligned with the techniques, tactics, and procedures of your most probable adversaries. This ensures that your defensive strategies are founded on empirical data rather than fleeting trends.
Common Use Case for This Service:
Cyber Operations Threat Hunting Improvements:
When cyber defences are haphazardly employed, albeit effective in some instances, certain organisations face an elevated threat profile. This includes those with an international presence, government entities, critical national infrastructure sector organisations, and suppliers to critical national infrastructure. Similarly, organisations handling sensitive data, such as payment card information, intellectual property, or personal data of large volumes of individuals, understandably require a more professional approach to defence deployment. It’s imperative for such entities to comprehend their threat landscape and tailor defences to target the most probable cyber attacks and threat actors.
Organisations handling sensitive data, such as payment card information, intellectual property, or personal data of large volumes of individuals, understandably require a more professional approach to defence deployment.
While many companies engage in threat hunting, the execution is frequently subpar. Often, security analysts focus solely on alerts and resort to threat-hunting tactics solely during active incidents. A strategic approach to threat hunting, tailored to your specific adversaries, is imperative. This may entail scrutinising legitimate processes within the organisation through the lens of the stealthy techniques, such as living-off-the-land employed by threat actors. Precise identification of areas to investigate and the specific indicators to seek is paramount for effective threat hunting.
By implementing defences and structuring cyber security operations in a manner informed by educated intelligence, organisations can streamline cyber expenditure and adopt a more pragmatic approach to cyber defence strategies.
What's Included:
This service grants you a senior cyber security consultant with experience in profiling cyber threat actors.
The beauty of this service lies in its minimal demand on customer resources. Commencing with a workshop-style interview, followed by meticulous research for profiling, culminating in the creation of a bespoke threat chart and comprehensive report, each step is executed with precision before presentation to you.
Within this report, you will glean invaluable insights into your most probable adversaries, their preferred tools and methodologies employed in targeting businesses akin to yours, as well as the rationale behind their attack vectors. Moreover, you will acquire a comprehensive understanding of your current business vulnerabilities that attract potential attackers, along with the requisite hacking techniques and resources that should be incorporated into your defensive strategies.
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