Glossary

Digital Risk Protection Services

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Digital Risk Protection Services (DRPS)

Digital risk protection services (DRPS) are technology and services that protect digital resources and data from external threats, while reducing enterprise attack surfaces. DRPS provides visibility into the open web, social media, dark web, and deep web sources to identify potential threats to critical assets. It also provides contextual information on threat actors, their tactics and the processes they use for conducting malicious activities. 

Cyberattacks have grown increasingly complex, voluminous, and targeted in their efforts to disrupt business operations. DRPS is mostly outsourced by organizations that don’t have in-house skills. DRPS proactively identifies exposed digital assets at risk, collects and analyzes mapped data with prioritization of risks, and provides alerting and reporting for actionable intelligence.

DRPS supports a wide range of use cases and user roles, including:

1) Digital foot printing (mapping internal and external assets and identifying shadow IT)

2) Brand protection (identifying impersonations, doxing, and misinformation)

3) Account takeover (finding credential theft, lookalike domains and phishing sites)

4) Data leakage detection (protecting intellectual property and employee and customer PII and credit card data)

5) High-value target monitoring (VIP and executive monitoring). 

Ridge Security DRPS support: As part of an integrated DRPS solution, it enables organizations to frequently and consistently test their infrastructure, applications, and defenses, finding and mitigating weaknesses, gaps, and operational deficiencies faster. It acts like a human attacker, using sophisticated exploits to relentlessly locate exploits across an enterprise network, document its findings, and continuously measure results and effectiveness.