Getting ahead and staying ahead of cyber threats is a security team’s number one job. But thousands of new threats emerge daily; and thousands more evolve. How can you keep up? Reading the backwaters of the internet, figuring out which threats matter and if they impact before they hit the headline, and staying on them as they evolve is a task for a small army.
You need to know about the major emerging threats before they hit the headlines. By the time a threat gets written up in Forbes; you're in reactive mode.
That's exactly what happened with the Log4J vulnerability and the subsequent attacks that leveraged it. A select few organizations that had threat intel teams actually knew about the issue before it was even called "Log4J". How?
The typical strategy of the larger orgs is to build a dedicated Threat Intelligence team and leverage a Threat Intelligence Platform. For many years, the mantra "the best threat intelligence feed is the one you build yourself" has been predominant in the Threat Intel space, driven by the fact that commercial threat intelligence feeds have some critical issues: they typically have a high false positive rate and they contain a lot of outdated data or duplicate data. These problems typically get solved by using humans to analyze, prioritize, and filter the data and the results.
It takes a whole team to keep up. And teams cost money—especially when you’re competing for talent with the NSA. You’ll need to hire a team of top (and hard to find) talent to be effective. The salary alone of an effective threat intel team at a fortune 500 runs into the millions, and they're worth every dollar. Success means preventing more losses (in $) than your team costs. For multi-billion dollar organizations, it's an easy business case to justify. For most, it’s not.
This approach can certainly work for those with the budget to support it. But what about everyone else? How can organizations with the typical security budgets ever get ahead?
This is why we built the Fletch Trending Threats app. Think of it as a threat intel team in your pocket. The Fletch Natural language engine scours through 30,000 infosec articles every day, creating an incredibly effective and personalized threat intel feed that surfaces new major threats 5 to 7 days before they get reported by the mainstream, and continuously tracks them as they evolve.
Connecting Fletch via read-only API connections to your security tools like Vulnerability Scanners and Endpoint Protection products automatically correlates your data with the major threats without having to set up and maintain complex correlation tools. All with just 10 minutes of setup.
In just a few months on the market Fletch is already helping hundreds of customers get and stay ahead of threats as they emerge, delivering the top 5 threats to your inbox every day. Now we launch Trending Threats PRO, which supersizes the capabilities of our app, delivering 20x more threat coverage and threat evolution tracking. It analyzes more data in a day than any person or team could possibly cover in a month.
If you have it already, you have been upgraded. If you don’t have Fletch yet, sign up for the waitlist and we’ll get you set up soon.
