DFIR Tool

Your team works hard to prevent them, but sometimes there’s no getting around it: breaches happen. In the wake of an incident, your team’s job is to find out everything they can about the attack: how it happened, what systems and data were compromised, and how future incidents can be prevented. When your organization is responding to an attack, Digital Forensics and Response (DFIR) tools offer invaluable support to your team. 

An Overview of DFIR tools

What is DFIR? 

DFIR, or Digital Forensics and Incident Response, is a field focused on investigating, mitigating, and recovering from security incidents such as cyberattacks, data breaches, and malware infections. It combines digital forensics and incident response into a single discipline carried out by one team. 

What are the components of DFIR? 

• Digital Forensics is the practice of collecting, analyzing, and preserving digital evidence from computers, networks, and storage devices to understand what happened during a security event. There is a strict chain of custody for such evidence because findings may be used in court or other legal proceedings.
• Incident Response is a structured approach to detecting, containing, and eradicating cyber threats to minimize damage and restore normal operations.

It’s important to combine these disciplines because when Digital Forensics and Incident Response teams work separately, there’s a chance they might contaminate each others’ work. 

What is a DFIR tool? 

A DFIR tool is any application used in Digital Forensics and Incident Response to investigate cyber incidents, analyze digital evidence, and respond to security breaches. These tools help security professionals detect, analyze, and remediate cyber threats.

Why is it Important to Use DFIR Tools in Today’s Cybersecurity Landscape? 

How can DFIR tools prevent breaches? 

You can’t always prevent cyber attacks and data breaches, but you can stop additional breaches from taking place. A DFIR tool that scans for stolen information can prevent other potential breaches by alerting your team to the appearance of stolen data in places where it shouldn’t be. This allows your team to take action quickly, mitigating any possible threats. 

What is the impact of a data breach on an organization?

The average cost of a data breach is $4.88 million. This figure includes the cost of finding and remediating the breach, interruptions of operations, legal fees and other fines. There are other consequences as well: 

• Disruption of operations: Some threats, like ransomware attacks, may lock an organization out of its own data and systems, disrupting business operations. 
• Loss of proprietary or sensitive data: Attackers steal and take advantage of sensitive data, including personal information, intellectual property, and trade secrets. This data can be used for various malicious purposes, such as identity theft, industrial espionage, or future targeted attacks against the organization or its users.
• Reputational loss: A data breach can damage the reputation of an organization. Customers may lose trust in the company’s ability to protect their data and negative press may impact the public perception of a company.

What DFIR Tools Does Flare Offer? 

Why use a DFIR tool after a breach? 

Data breaches are like cockroaches; where there’s one, there’s likely to be more. If the attacker stole data like credentials, proprietary code, or personal information, this one incident may be the cause of a future attack. Unfortunately it can be hard to tell which data has been exposed or stolen, or even if data was stolen at all. This can lead to you spending hours online, manually scanning the dark web and prominent threat actor communities for leaked data. This is a maddening task that can take hours. By using a DFIR tool, your team can automate that process, so your experts can focus on responding to the attack and mitigating vulnerabilities. 

How does Flare’s DFIR tool work? 

Flare’s platform is focused on bringing your team targeted, relevant threat intelligence; it automates the process of scanning for threats, data, and networks. Flare’s cyber defense platform continuously monitors the clear & dark web — as prominent threat actor communities — for leaked or stolen data, as well as any other information that can help your team prepare for a possible attack. Whenever your data — including the name of your organization, employees, or any other sensitive data — appears, Flare notifies your team so they can take action quickly and mitigate harm.

What do you get with Flare’s DFIR tool? 

• Relevant alerts: Your team is bombarded by alerts all day. Flare doesn’t contribute to that alert fatigue. Flare only delivers notifications when a threat is relevant to your organization.
• Automated continuous monitoring: Using an automated solution gives your team 24/7 coverage of your external threat exposures and any risks that pose a threat, while letting them catch their breath.
• A proactive security stance: By actively seeking out potential threats, you can catch breaches early and take steps to protect your data, systems, and networks.
• Visibility into the deep and dark web: Flare’s monitoring solution scans the deep, dark, and clear web to find leaks before an attack happens.
• Unmatched data collection: Flare uses billions of data points to provide your team with information about your organization’s security stance, relevant threats, and the movement of threat actors between platforms.
• Transparency: Flare lists every source so you know exactly where your threat intelligence data is coming from. 
• Translation: Not every threat actor speaks your language. Flare’s AI assistant translates alerts from all over the world, so you can see every relevant threat, no matter its origin. 

DFIR Tools and Flare

The Flare Threat Exposure Management (TEM) solution empowers organizations to proactively detect, prioritize, and mitigate the types of exposures commonly exploited by threat actors. Our platform automatically scans the clear & dark web and prominent threat actor communities 24/7 to discover unknown events, prioritize risks, and deliver actionable intelligence you can use instantly to improve security. Protect your data before and after an incident with Flare. 

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