Compromise Intelligence
INTRODUCTION
Seizing Control from the Adversary Years of cyberwarfare have taken their toll on businesses today. The old models that kept organizations safe have become expensive posturing in a struggle against adversaries who have long since evolved to newer, more devious modes of attack.
These traditional defenses have given businesses an overabundance of information about the data that passes through their networks, but little visibility into the active threats that have set up shop there. These problems become far more complex once the security blanket of an organization is also expected to cover any unseen security problems within hundreds or thousands of partner networks, which have become essential for most businesses to remain competitive in the global marketplace. To survive today, businesses need visibility into the threats trying to subvert their networks. Without it, they are blindly fending off attacks in the darkness against adversaries capable of laser-targeting their vulnerabilities. What if you could augment your perception of those enemies with the cybersecurity equivalent of night-vision goggles?
What is Compromise Intelligence?
In this age of cybersecurity, a castle-and-moat style of defense is not enough. The new defense is offense — taking the fight to the doorstep of the adversary. Compromise Intelligence is cyber counterintelligence at scale, empowering organizations to gain visibility on targeted threats before they impact their business. Most cybersecurity solutions are focused on protecting each potential victim with endless perimeter defense. But with Compromise Intelligence, these potential victims are given Continuous Compromise Monitoring capability, empowered to peer over the shoulders of the adversaries themselves.
What is Cyberwarfare?
Cyberwarfare is the use of cyber attacks against an enemy state, causing comparable harm to actual warfare and/or disrupting vital computer systems. Some intended outcomes could be espionage, sabotage, propaganda, manipulation, or economic warfare.
There is significant debate among experts regarding the definition of cyber warfare, and even if such a thing exists. One view is that the term is a misnomer since no cyber attacks to date could be described as a war. An alternative view is that it is a suitable label for cyber attacks which cause physical damage to people and objects in the real world.
Many countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, China, Israel, Iran, and North Korea have active cyber capabilities for offensive and defensive operations. As states explore the use of cyber operations and combine capabilities, the likelihood of physical confrontation and violence playing out as a result of, or part of, a cyber operation is increased. However, meeting the scale and protracted nature of war is unlikely, thus ambiguity remains.
The first instance of kinetic military action used in response to a cyber-attack resulting in the loss of human life was observed on 5 May 2019, when the Israel Defense Forces targeted and destroyed a building associated with an ongoing cyber-attack.
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