INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Enterprise Security
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Digital Shadows
announces update to
SearchLight platform
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D
igital Shadows, a leader in digital risk protection, has announced
significant updates to its SearchLight platform which will enable
organisations to make faster and better decisions regarding
security risks associated with Digital Transformation.
The updates further cement Digital Shadows’ position as a leader
for digital risk protection and gears the company up for its next
stage of growth.
Following significant investment in research and development,
SearchLight’s new risk engine enables security teams to better
prioritise and assess external digital risks. For impersonating domains
and marked document alerts, SearchLight immediately identifies key
risk factors and assesses the risk posed using a method aligned to the
FAIR model – incorporating asset value, risk likelihood and scenario-
based impact assessments.
As well as the addition of risk scoring, security teams are now
also provided with the tools to take action. Digital Shadows
‘playbooks’, based on the NIST computer security incident
handling guide, provide step-by-step advice to triage, evaluate
and mitigate risks.
With rich context made instantly available, security teams of all sizes
can dramatically reduce the time spent triaging and responding to
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alerts. This gives organisations the context they need to protect against
phishing, detect data loss and gain control of their digital footprint.
As an example, on average, Digital Shadows customers receive 290
domain impersonations per year. In these circumstances, customers
will immediately be advised of whether the domain is hosting
content, view full screenshots, source code and details of its DNS and
MX records including a full history of WHOIS registration.
SearchLight will automatically include context provided by Google
Safe Browsing and Webroot as industry-leading sources for context.
Alongside these changes, Digital Shadows is unveiling new collection
techniques, including automated asset discovery and image searching.
Digital Shadows’ CEO and Founder, Alastair Paterson, said: “This
update to our service is the single biggest change to our platform
since we started the company and is key to our mission to provide
our customers and managed service provider partners with the most
sophisticated and context-rich solution on the market.
“Through this update we are empowering security professionals to
clearly identify risk and be able to act quickly. Strategically we also
believe this will help them better articulate longer-term issues to
C-level audiences.” n
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