Most businesses operate in the cloud, so cloud threat intelligence is relevant to a majority, if not all organizations. Cloud threat intelligence can help your team understand the risks facing your cloud environments, and proactively protect your data.
How does Flare monitor cloud threat intelligence?
Why use Flare to monitor cloud threat intelligence?
Stealer logs are often the cause of cyberattacks, and Flare continuously monitors illicit sources to alert security teams to address leaked and stolen information before threat actors exploit them. The Flare platform also monitors for leaky cloud buckets/storage, so security teams can secure them.
How does Flare find cloud threat intelligence?
Flare automatically scans for cloud threat intelligence, continuously monitoring the clear and dark web — as well as illicit Telegram channels — and sending your team alerts when it detects your organization, employees’ names, domains, IP, or any other key information. If a threat actor steals information from leaky cloud buckets and storage, or credentials from SaaS applications, the Flare platform would find that and alert your security team.
What are the key benefits of Flare’s threat intelligence solution?
- Visibility across your attack surface: The more cloud resources you use, the larger your supply chain. Flare monitors the entire supply chain attack surface to keep you abreast of all threats.
- A proactive security stance: By actively seeking out potential threats, you can catch breaches early and take steps to protect your organization’s cloud resources.
- Automated continuous monitoring: Using an automated solution gives you 24/7 coverage, keeping you on top of your organization’s cloud security.
A Closer Look at Cloud Threat Intelligence
What is cloud threat intelligence?
Cloud threat intelligence refers to the collection, analysis, and use of information related to threats specifically targeting cloud environments. This form of threat intelligence helps your organization protect its cloud infrastructure, services, and data from cyber criminals.
What are some examples of cloud threats?
- Data breaches: Unauthorized access to sensitive data stored in the cloud.
- Misconfigurations: Security risks due to improperly configured cloud resources.
- Account hijacking: Compromises of cloud user accounts through phishing, weak passwords, or other means.
- Insider threats: Malicious or negligent actions by employees or contractors with access to cloud environments.
- Denial of Service (DoS): Attacks aimed at disrupting cloud services and making them unavailable.
- Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs): Long-term targeted attacks aiming to infiltrate cloud environments and exfiltrate data.
How is cloud threat intelligence collected?
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Enterprise threat intelligence is collected from a wide range of sources including:
- Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): OSINT is data that is publicly available. It comes from sources like the media, social media, forums and any other content that is publicly accessible.
- Closed source intelligence: Closed source intelligence comes from proprietary or restricted information sources, such as commercial threat intelligence feeds, private forums, underground marketplaces and dark web sources.
- Internal security data: Your own data can provide valuable security insights. You can pull this information from network logs, security event logs, endpoint telemetry, firewall logs, intrusion detection system (IDS) alerts and any other internal security data sources you may have.
- Incident response data: Incident response data includes information about past security incidents, including the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) employed by threat actors provides important lessons learned, enabling organizations to understand attack patterns and refine their defenses.
- Industry and information sharing communities: Industry-specific information sharing communities and collaborating with trusted peers can provide valuable threat intelligence. Sharing insights, best practices, and threat intelligence within these communities allows organizations to gain access to a broader range of threat data and collective knowledge.
- External threat feeds and integrations: External threat intelligence feeds from reputable sources provide real-time updates on things like emerging threats, indicators of compromise (IOCs), malware signatures, and malicious IP addresses or domains.
Why is Cloud Threat Intelligence Important to Cybersecurity at the Moment?
Why invest in cloud threat intelligence in today’s threat landscape?
Very few organizations have not adopted the cloud. Many are using multi-cloud solutions in fact, and entrusting some of their most important data and projects to the cloud. With so many businesses using cloud resources, it’s not surprising that cloud security is the second biggest challenge for security professionals, second to cloud spending.
What cloud security challenges do organizations face?
More than half of breaches originated in the cloud, according to a recent report. This is concerning, especially since so many organizations rely on the cloud to store mission-critical, personal, financial, and proprietary information. However, the report also finds that organizations don’t feel confident that they can stop an attack on their cloud environments, for a few reasons:
- Complexity: The connections and interactivity between cloud environments and other applications can be complicated, offering bad actors more attack vectors.
- Diversity: Cloud service providers offer a wide range of services, such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platforms as a Service (PaaS), data storage, containers, and serverless computing. While security controls for each cloud service exist, it’s difficult for teams to manage so many varying native controls.
- Poor visibility: Security teams aren’t always able to see or identify weak points in cloud services.
How can cloud threat intelligence help stop breaches?
Cloud threat intelligence acts as a window into threats and vulnerabilities in your cloud services, pointing to possible trends and attackers before an attack occurs. Such intelligence can help your organization strengthen its cyber defenses, hunt for threats, remediate vulnerabilities, improve compliance, and streamline your cybersecurity processes.
Cloud Threat Intelligence and Flare
Flare provides the leading Threat Exposure Management (TEM) solution for organizations. Our technology constantly scans the online world, including the clear & dark web, to discover unknown events, automatically prioritize risks, and deliver actionable intelligence you can use instantly to improve security. Flare’s threat intelligence solution helps your team monitor your cloud resources, keeping your data safe and secure.
Our solution integrates into your security program in 30 minutes to provide your team with actionable intelligence and automated remediation for high-risk exposure. See it yourself with our free trial.