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Benefits of real-time cyber threat intelligence
Pure Signal™ Scout is a powerful cyber threat intelligence tool that uniquely provides real-time visibility of external threats, at speeds others can’t match. Scout enables all analysts to gain immediate visibility into emerging threats and deeper insights with AI-enriched and tagged comprehensive search results, allowing teams to simplify workflows and reduce costs through consolidation. Empower your security team to conduct more thorough investigations and respond faster with real-time intelligence.
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Multiple data types and sources are fused into one tool without complex scripting. Integrations using leading TIP, SOAR and SIEM platforms
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Access dynamic and live telemetry to uncover malicious and suspicious infrastructure. Continuously pivot to identify and assess threats with unrivalled visibility across the internet
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What Leaders Say About Scout
The tool provided wonderful enhancements to our threat detection and analysis process due to the great number of features that are built into the tool by default. This allows me and the team to not be required to use multiple tools to perform threat analysis.
Manager, IT Security and Risk Management
Pure Signal Scouts an all-in-one platform that efficiently integrates several services and is therefore perfect suited for the exploration of dangerous threats.
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Pure Signal™ Scout: External Threat Intelligence FAQs
Enhance your organization's threat detection capabilities with Pure Signal™ Scout.
What Is External Threat Intelligence?
External Threat Intelligence refers to the collection and analysis of information about threats originating outside an organization's network. It encompasses data on threat actors, their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), as well as indicators of compromise (IOCs) observed across the internet. Unlike internal threat intelligence, which focuses on threats within an organization's own systems, external threat intelligence provides insights into the broader threat landscape. By leveraging external threat intelligence, organizations can: - Anticipate Attacks: Gain awareness of emerging threats and vulnerabilities exploited in the wild. - Understand Threat Actors: Learn about the motives and methods of attackers targeting similar organizations. - Strengthen Defenses: Implement proactive measures based on real-world threat data. Integrating external threat intelligence into your security strategy enhances situational awareness and enables a more robust, proactive defense posture.
How do External Threat Intelligence tools Enhance Incident Response?
Below are the typical advantages that External Threat Intelligence tools like Scout provide when integrated into Incident Response workflows and processes: - Streamlined Triage: Quick access to summarized data points improves response times. - Reduced Alert Fatigue: Clear, concise information helps prioritize threats effectively. - Accessible for All Skill Levels: User-friendly design requires minimal training. - Real-Time Intelligence: Up-to-date information is crucial for timely responses: Risk Assessment Aids in understanding potential organizational risks for appropriate mitigation.
How Does External Threat Intelligence Differ From Internal Threat Intelligence?
While both types of intelligence aim to bolster an organization's security, they differ in scope and focus: Internal Threat Intelligence: - Scope: Focuses on threats and vulnerabilities within or connected to the organization's network and systems. - Data Sources: Internal logs, incident reports, employee activity, and system alerts. - Purpose: Identifies internal vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or insider threats. External Threat Intelligence: - Scope: Concentrates on threats originating from outside the organization. - Data Sources: Global internet telemetry, open-source intelligence (OSINT), dark web monitoring, and threat feeds. - Purpose: Provides context about external threats, emerging attack vectors, and threat actor activities.
Can External Threat Intelligence Tools Enrich Other Platforms?
A key benefit of many External Threat Intelligence tools is that they can integrate and enhance platforms already used by security teams, making them more agile and efficient. Below are some examples of tools like Scout to enable teams to be more effective. - Integrating With Existing Tools: Offers API access for seamless integration with SIEM, XDR, SOAR, and more. - Automating Network Defense Rules: Enables continuous updates to firewall rule sets to ensure robust defense against emerging threats. - Adding Context to Data: Enriches internal logs and datasets with external threat intelligence. - Improving Insights: Provides a broader picture for more precise intelligence and decision-making.
How does Pure Signal™ External Threat Intelligence differ from traditional sources of Threat Intelligence?
Pure Signalâ„¢ offers a unique approach by providing real-time access to Internet telemetry data, ensuring highly accurate and trusted information direct from sources across the Internet. Here's how it differs from traditional threat intelligence sources: - Real-Time Internet Telemetry Data: Unlike traditional threat intelligence sources that offer periodic updates or delayed information, Pure Signalâ„¢ delivers live, dynamic insights into global internet communications. This immediate access allows analysts to observe threat activities as they happen, enabling proactive threat hunting and faster incident response. - Comprehensive Visibility Beyond Curated Feeds: Curated threat feeds typically provide a collection of known indicators of compromise (IOCs) and signatures of past threats. Pure Signalâ„¢ offers a broader view by granting access to raw Internet telemetry data across various datasets such as NetFlow, Open Ports, Passive DNS (PDNS), X.509 Certificates, Fingerprints, and Whois data. This extensive visibility helps uncover emerging threats that may not yet be included in standard feeds. - Human-Enriched Data with Unique Tagging System: Pure Signalâ„¢ incorporates a robust tagging system created by human analysts, applied at Internet scale. These tags add contextual intelligence to raw data, highlighting characteristics like malicious behavior, suspicious activities, or infrastructure details. This enrichment accelerates investigations by providing immediate context that automated feeds or finished reports may lack. - Customized Threat Analysis: With access to Internet telemetry data, analysts can tailor their searches and queries to specific needs. These can include monitoring third-party networks for signals of compromise or exploring threat actor infrastructure and behaviors in-depth and on demand. This flexibility contrasts with finished threat intelligence, which offers pre-analyzed reports that may not address risks or threats that are unique to the organization. - Proactive Defense Capabilities: Pure Signalâ„¢ enables organizations to move from a reactive to a proactive security posture. By identifying and analyzing threats in real-time, security teams can mitigate risks before they impact the organization, something that is more challenging with static, curated feeds. - Reduced Reliance on Multiple Sources: By consolidating various datasets into a single platform with fast response times, Pure Signalâ„¢ reduces the need for multiple third-party data services. This not only streamlines workflows but also cuts costs associated with subscribing to various threat feeds, and enables security teams to rely less on internal development resources. - Complementary to Finished Intelligence: While finished threat intelligence provides valuable summaries and assessments of known threats, Pure Signalâ„¢ enhances this by allowing up-to-the-minute deeper dives into the threat actor infrastructure. It offers both the raw and contextualized insights needed to validate findings or explore anomalies that standard reports might overlook or omit due to the passing of time. In Summary: Pure Signalâ„¢ differs from other threat intelligence sources by offering: -Real-time access to live internet telemetry data. -Comprehensive Datasets that go beyond curated IOCs. -Human-enriched context through a unique tagging system. -Flexibility and Customization in threat analysis. -Proactive Threat Hunting capabilities. -Consolidation of Tools and Feeds into a single platform.
What Are the Important Features of External Threat Intelligence Tools?
Tools designed for security teams like Scout that leverage External Threat Intelligence can greatly improve their capabilities, here are some key features that support teams. - Optimized Threat Analysis User-Friendly Interface: Intuitive to use for analysts at all levels. Visualizations: Graphical displays help understand threat patterns. - Proactive External Threat Hunting Advanced Search Functions: Detailed exploration using various criteria. Immediate Results: Sub-second response times for timely information. - Enhanced Context Tagged Results: Human-generated tags that add valuable insights at scale. Comprehensive Datasets: Provides a holistic view of threats. - Integration and Automation API or Integration Ready: Supports seamless integration with other security tools. Automated Workflows: Improves efficiency by automating detection processes.
How Does Pure Signal™ Scout Provide External Threat Intelligence?
Pure Signalâ„¢ Scout leverages real-time internet telemetry data, further enriched, to deliver comprehensive external threat intelligence. It provides a continuous capability to analyze data from global internet communications, providing up-to-date insights into: - Malicious Activities: Ability to search for suspicious behaviors and potential threats as they emerge. - Threat Actor Infrastructure: Enables capabilities to map out the networks and resources used by attackers. - Emerging Threats: Helps to identify risks and exploited nodes before the impact becomes widespread. Scout's comprehensive tagging system, created by human analysts, enriches this data with context about malicious behavior, suspicious activities, and infrastructure details, enabling faster and more informed decision-making.
How Can Organizations Measure the ROI of Using External Threat Intelligence Tools?
Organizations can assess ROI by evaluating: - Time Savings: Faster investigations due to immediate insights and consolidated tools. - Cost Efficiency: Reduced need for multiple threat intelligence subscriptions. - Improved Productivity: Enhanced analyst efficiency and better resource utilization. - Risk Mitigation: Proactive detection reduces the likelihood and impact of incidents. - Operational Optimization: Streamlined workflows improve overall security operations.
How do tools that leverage External Threat Intelligence Improve Threat Investigation?
Below are the typical advantages that External Threat Intelligence tools provide when integrated into investigation workflows and processes: - Instant Context: Offers immediate insights into malicious nodes, helping analysts quickly identify and assess threats. - Efficiency: Consolidates multiple data sources into one platform, reducing time spent switching between tools. - Advanced Search: Allows tailored queries to explore specific threat characteristics. - Discovery of Emerging Threats: Uncovers threats not yet included in traditional feeds or reports. - Enhanced Decision-Making: Human-generated tags provide deeper context, facilitating faster responses.
What Are the Core Capabilities of tools that leverage External Threat Intelligence?
- Real-Time Threat Intelligence Access dynamic and live Internet telemetry data to uncover malicious and suspicious infrastructure, enabling proactive threat hunting. - Comprehensive Data Sets Security teams typically need insights from a wide range of datasets, such as: -NetFlow: Understand traffic patterns and connections. -Open Ports: Identify potential vulnerabilities. -Passive DNS (PDNS): Track domain resolution history. -X.509 Certificates: Analyze SSL/TLS certificates for anomalies. -Fingerprints: Recognize unique identifiers of devices or services. -Whois Data: Access registration information of domains and IPs. - Advanced Search and Analysis Utilize simple and advanced queries to: -Explore Threat Actor Infrastructure: Discover related malicious nodes. -Analyze Threat Behaviors: Understand tactics and techniques used. Contextual Tagging System Benefit from human-generated tags that enrich data with: -Malicious Indicators -Suspicious Activities -Infrastructure Characteristics - Integration Capabilities Enrich data for other platforms and integrate Scout with existing security tools like SIEM, XDR, and SOAR solutions to enhance detection capabilities.
What Is Pure Signal™ Scout?
Pure Signalâ„¢ Scout is an external threat intelligence tool that provides cybersecurity professionals with real-time insights. It allows analysts to gain immediate context on characteristics and behaviors observed from malicious nodes across the internet, aiding in the identification of other nodes with similar attributes. Key features: - User-Friendly Interface: Simplified GUI with graphical displays and tagged results. - Advanced Search Capabilities: Supports both simple and advanced queries for in-depth analysis. - Real-Time Data Access: Provides immediate visibility into global internet communications. These capabilities allow security teams to identify and assess external threats more quickly, improving their response times.
Who Benefits From External Threat Intelligence?
External Threat Intelligence tools like Pure Signalâ„¢ Scout are beneficial for a variety of roles across the security team. Roles typically include: -Threat Researchers -Threat Intelligence Analysts -Threat Hunters -Incident Responders -Security Operations Center (SOC) Analysts -CTI/InfoSec Leadership -SecOps Personnel -Red, Blue, and Purple Team Members These professionals can leverage External Threat Intelligence tools to gain immediate insights, streamline investigations, and enhance their organization's ability to detect and respond to external threats.