Johannesburg, 18 May 2018
Digital Shadows, the leader in digital risk management and relevant threat intelligence, has announced its new "Shadow Search" capability, available as part of its flagship, award-winning SearchLight service.
Shadow Search enables instant access to Digital Shadows' comprehensive collection of historical and evolving threat intelligence assets, and expert security sources, including leading security blogs and news, enabling SearchLight subscribers the ability to better manage third-party risk, investigate security incidents, monitor trends, and enrich threat hunting of client-specific indicators and threat actors jeopardising their business, brand and reputation.
"Too many security and IT teams suffer from 'alert fatigue' and diminished response times, hampered by having to sift through multiple dashboards and data sets for the right data necessary to act quickly before an attack or cyber security incident's worst consequences occur," said Digital Shadows Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer James Chappell.
"The powerful and intuitive Shadow Search interface queries Digital Shadows' vast repository of SearchLight data observed from the cyber crime underground and across the open, deep and dark Web, to deliver fast and actionable insights on everything from adversary groups and attack techniques, to indicators and exploits. Our clients can therefore benefit from hands-on access to raw threat data with real-time search capability for security teams."
Shadow Search combines expert security resources and assessments, threat intelligence, and structured technical data and content from the open deep and dark Web into an innovative precision search engine, returning detailed results according to technical, geopolitical, industry sector and other search terms. Scouring anonymous and underground Internet forums where threat actors conduct business, and information shared among the global stakeholder community, Shadow Search delivers data hard to find anywhere else to recoup valuable time for understaffed security operations teams and overwhelmed threat analysts.
Shadow Search accelerates either fast access or hands-on access to intelligence collection and analysis with practical and powerful features, including:
* A vast and ever-expanding cache of structured and unstructured data available for search;
* Ability to view recent searches, save searches and subscribe to alerts on new matches;
* New extended search syntax and rich contextual filters;
* Easy to interpret search results categorised by timing, threat level, associations and more;
* A dedicated search area to run multiple searches and explore detailed results; and
* The ability to export results in Excel and JSON as well as via API and correlate further to enrich investigations/research.
In Gartner's November 2017 report: Innovation Insight for Security Orchestration, Automation and Response, Research VP Craig Lawson states: "Security and risk management leaders responsible for security monitoring and operations face an increasingly challenging world. Attackers are improving their ability to bypass traditional blocking and prevention security technologies, and end-users continue to fall victim to attackers through social engineering methods, while still failing to carry out basic security practices well. While mean time to detect threats may be trending down across industries, it still takes way too long. Once detected, the ability to respond to, and remediate, those threats is still a challenge for most organisations."
Digital Shadows will be showcasing its products and innovative technologies at the ITWeb Security Summit, southern Africa's definitive conference and expo for information security, IT and business professionals. This year, over 70 expert speakers will deliver key insights across seven tracks, including workshops and training courses during the expanded five-day event. The ITWeb Security Summit will be staged at Vodacom World, Midrand, from 22-23 May 2018; and CTICC Cape Town on 29 May 2018. Focused and interactive workshops as well as in-depth training courses will be run in the days around the main conference and exhibition.
For more information, go to www.securitysummit.co.za.
For information on Security Summit Cape Town, go to http://v2.itweb.co.za/event/itweb/security-summit-ct-2018/.
What some customers and partners are saying about Shadow Search:
John Lewis Partnership:
"We participated in the Digital Shadows SearchLight Beta program for their new search feature, Shadow Search, and we found that the new tool gave the Security Operations Centre the one-stop shop for our investigations; we were able to look up IPs, sector-related intelligence and monitor custom alerts we have configured. We have been able to explore all areas that Digital Shadows cover in one simple search, and pivot off of our findings," said Lead IT Security Analyst, John Lewis Partnership.
"Shadow Search quickly enabled us to go extremely deep on research and investigation of our digital risks, enabling us to make sense of massive amounts of data from the deep, dark and open Web by making it more accessible and discoverable. Shadow Search will help us make more informed decisions and make a positive impact on security incident response and threat hunting."
IWC Schaffhausen:
"Through our deep partnership with Digital Shadows, we were asked to participate in their SearchLight Beta program for their new search feature Shadow Search," said Sascha Maier, IT & Information Security Manager at IWC Schaffhausen. "Shadow Search will give us access to the broadest coverage, provide the most relevant results and actionable information to make better decisions faster to protect our company from today's digital risks."
Cylance
"Today's security teams rely on strategic and tactical threat intelligence to make quick and decisive decisions," said Malcolm Harkins, Chief Security and Trust Officer, Cylance. "Combining Cylance's Infinity Cloud capability with the Shadows Search feature of Digital Shadows' SearchLight will provide users with the fast and accurate contextual information they need to protect their organisations."
Tevora
Orange County-based Tevora, a premiere management consulting firm focused on cyber-security, risk and compliance services, is a trusted partner of Digital Shadows. Tevora's Managing Director of Threat Management, Clayton Riness, states: "SearchLight is one of the powerful resources our Threat Team relies on to best manage our customers' risk and security needs, and we are eager to take advantage of the innovative Shadow Search capability."
ITWeb Security Summit 2018
Registration is open for the ITWeb Security Summit 2018, being held in Johannesburg on 22 and 23 May and in Cape Town on 28 and 29 May. This is the must-attend annual event for information security professionals, featuring international speakers, workshops, as well as a beginners' guide to cyber security. Click here.
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