Trustwave today added Threat Intelligence as a Service (TIaaS) to its offensive security portfolio to help organizations better understand the threats they face and provide detailed knowledge and mitigations of their security weaknesses.
Trustwave TIaaS provides organizations with timely, contextualized, and prioritized threat intelligence based on factors relevant to their operations, enabling them to make risk-based and threat-informed decisions which benefit their organizations. It is delivered using Trustwave’s SpiderLabs Intelligence Led Knowledgebase (SILK) Methodology, a human-led approach that combines expert analysis with advanced threat intelligence tooling to produce validated, high-value intelligence.
The concept behind Trustwave TIaaS is to harness threat intelligence as the basis for a holistic and proactive security strategy. Trustwave TIaaS leverages insights from Trustwave’s SpiderLabs team; particularly, SpiderLabs' deep understanding of the threats facing organizations, as well as testing insights on technical, human, and defensive lapses in organizations’ infrastructures. Aggregating these insights will make an organization safer, more resilient, and capable when responding to new threats.
"The traditional, reactive approach to cybersecurity simply isn't enough anymore," said Craig Searle, Trustwave Global Leader of Cyber Advisory. "Organizations today need an offensive and proactive approach to cybersecurity that can address the full spectrum of exposure. This requires a comprehensive understanding of their unique vulnerabilities across the entire attack surface. By moving beyond generic intelligence, Trustwave TIaaS produces intelligence-led, actionable insights, and outcomes, empowering businesses to protect critical assets and brand reputation while adopting a proactive cybersecurity posture."
TIaaS and Offensive Security
At its heart, Trustwave TIaaS is a 12-month engagement cycle delivered by Trustwave Consulting and Professional Services that includes seven core features with regularly issued reports. The core features will provide a deep understanding of the issues facing the client, enabling Trustwave to conduct continuous monitoring of the threat landscape and conduct security exercises with the client's security team to improve capabilities.
Led by Trustwave's team of SpiderLabs security experts, Trustwave TIaaS leverages industry-leading expertise and a deep understanding of global threats to provide clients with:
- Early Warning Systems: Proactive identification of potential risks to brand reputation, infrastructure, and overall security posture.
- Risk-Based Decision Making: Informed decision-making through insights and analysis directly relevant to their organization's environment.
- Attack Surface Understanding: Identification of insecure services, assets, and systems through attack surface monitoring and analysis.
- Reduced False Positives: Enhanced confidence with validated intelligence from multiple sources, minimizing wasted resources on false threats.
- Faster Incident Response: Streamlined communication with targeted alerts delivered directly to the appropriate personnel in their organization.
- Always Up-to-Date Intelligence: Continuous monitoring and reporting on evolving threats, trends, and threat actor profiles.
Let's take a detailed look at how Trustwave TIaaS works. Clients will receive:
- Initial Threat Assessment Workshop: A collaborative workshop to understand their security posture, technologies, critical systems and services, and key areas of concern.
- Attack Surface Analysis: Identification of potential vulnerabilities across their attack surface, including domains, subdomains, and external-facing assets.
- Intelligence Analysis: Continuous intelligence gathering and analysis to stay ahead of emerging threats specific to their industry and region.
- Dark Web & Public Internet Monitoring: Proactive search for compromised data or credentials or other indicators of impending attack or risk to brand.
- Threat Knowledgebase: A centralized repository of critical information on known threat groups, actors, and tactics, along with details on emerging vulnerabilities and their exploitation.
- Tabletop Exercise: Testing and enhancing their incident response procedures through a simulated, desk-based attack scenario.
- Threat Intelligence Reporting: Strategic and tactical insights to keep them informed about the latest threats relevant to their operations.
These features are made possible due to the real-world research conducted daily by Trustwave’s SpiderLabs team, which is comprised of hundreds of elite researchers. This global, dedicated team will combine its own research with data culled from defending thousands of clients worldwide. After all, a threat to one organization is likely a threat to many.
The TIaaS Deliverables
Once up and running, the client will receive a variety of reports that cover threats, impacts, and risks tailored specifically to their organization, including comprehensive and actionable recommendations.
Trustwave TIaaS provides clients with three main types of threat intelligence reporting:
- Strategic Reporting: Underpins their security program to help define their security maturity and focus (e.g., industry research, observations, threat actor/group TTPs, contextual trends). This is provided on a quarterly basis.
- Tactical Reporting: Informs the short- to mid-term direction of their security initiatives (e.g., identified breaches of data/credentials, exposed assets or services, vulnerabilities in their technologies). This is provided on a monthly basis.
- ‘Imminent Threat’ Alerting: Intended for immediate attention. It is based on findings assessed as presenting an elevated risk to their organization, and which may require action to mitigate an immediate risk. This is provided on an as needed basis.
By partnering with Trustwave, organizations gain access to industry-recognized leadership in security and threat intelligence, along with practical security guidance informed by real-world threat research. Trustwave’s global reach ensures comprehensive threat coverage, with support available in 86 countries. Trustwave solutions are also designed to be flexible and differentiated to meet specific needs and budget.
