Digital Risk Protection Services

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 processes they use for conducting malicious activities.

During the past few years, 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 performs analysis of mapped data with prioritization of risks, and provides alerting and reporting for actionable intelligence. Business resilience is improved, by eliminating active threats and remediating misconfigured environments. DRPS supports a wide range of use cases and user roles, including digital foot printing, by mapping internal and external assets and identifying shadow IT; brand protection, by identifying impersonations, doxing, and misinformation; account takeover, by finding credential theft, lookalike domains and phishing sites; data leakage detection, by protecting intellectual property and employee and customer PII and credit card data; and high-value target monitoring, through VIP and executive monitoring.

Ridge Security DRPS support

As part of an integrated DRPS solution, Ridge Security’s RidgeBot^® enables organizations to frequently and consistently test their infrastructure, applications, and defenses to find and mitigate weaknesses, gaps and operational deficiencies faster. RidgeBots act like human attackers using sophisticated exploits. RidgeBots relentlessly locate exploits across an enterprise network, document their findings, continuously measure results and effectiveness, and verify vulnerabilities.

RidgeBot enables organizations to conduct automated pentesting from an attacker’s point of view. Before exposures are put into production, RidgeBot finds, assesses, prioritizes, and fixes a wide set of exposures before bad actors get to them. The resulting validation allows organizations to see what would happen in the event of an attack, how their defenses would cope, and how well the processes would perform.

Vulnerability assessment (VA) solutions operate across on-premises, cloud, and virtual environments to help reduce risk exposure. They discover, identify and report on operating system and software vulnerabilities for IT, cloud, IoT and OT devices.

Many organizations are implementing VA solutions to better understand, prioritize and reduce risk and exposure from threats. VA establishes a baseline of connected assets and vulnerabilities, identifying and reporting on the security configuration of assets. VA supports compliance reporting and control frameworks, risk assessment and remediation prioritization, and remediation activities.

A foundational component of the vulnerability management process, VA supports security management, proactive prevention of threats and conformity with regulations and compliance regimes. Vulnerability assessment is a key process in understanding and dealing with an organization’s attack surfaces that can be exposed to threat actors, helping to reduce risk.

Many regulations and standards, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001 require organizations to perform VAs to remain in compliance.

Advancements and innovations for VA tools and services are being seen in discovery, prioritization and mitigation, tracking the vulnerability remediation progress and workflow automation to meet evolving requirements and needs. This includes areas like cloud, containers, OT and vulnerability prioritization.

Ridge Security vulnerability assessment support

As part of an integrated vulnerability assessment, Ridge Security’s RidgeBot^® enables organizations to not only assess but also validate vulnerabilities discovered in their infrastructure, applications, and defenses. RidgeBots relentlessly locate exploits across an enterprise network, document their findings, continuously measure results and effectiveness, and verify vulnerabilities.

RidgeBot enables organizations to conduct automated pentesting from an attacker’s point of view. Before exposures are put into production, RidgeBot finds, assesses, prioritizes, and fixes a wide set of exposures before bad actors get to them. The resulting validation allows organizations to see what would happen in the event of an attack, how their defenses would cope, and how well the processes would perform.

Learn more about RidgeBot’s support for PCI DSS.

Learn more about RidgeBot’s support for GDPR.

Learn more about RidgeBot’s support for HIPPAA.

Learn more about RidgeBot’s support for ISO 27001