ThreatWatcher - Managed Cyber Threat Monitoring and Intelligence Service

Continual visibility into your digital attack surface and supply chain

Cyber security threats are becoming more frequent and more sophisticated in the era of Assurance 4.0 and keeping pace with an ever-changing landscape, as well as maintaining an in-house intelligence capability, is not easy.

In today’s world, an effective cyber security program is more than just technical safeguards such as firewalls and antivirus software. Organisations must also be proactive and agile with continual visibility of their attack surface and that of their supply chain.

LRQA’s Cyber Threat Intelligence Service, ThreatWatcher, makes that easy. Combining our unique expertise with cutting-edge technology, we keep you informed of your cyber security threats, so you are ready to act quickly.

Threat intelligence tailored to your needs

Our ThreatWatcher service is modular-based and can be tailored to your organisation's needs. By design, ThreatWatcher is an extension of your organisation. It is comprised of eight modules, two of which – Brand and Credential – are a core, non-optional part of the service and the other six are bespoke to your business needs.

Brand (core service)

We monitor the surface, deep, and dark web for mentions of your brand and investigate it if anything is found. This includes any mentions of your brand on code repositories, underground messaging platforms like Telegram/Discord, company profile impersonation on social media like LinkedIn and smishing campaigns.

Credentials (core service) 

We search the surface, deep, and dark web for leaked or stolen credentials. This includes code repositories, data leaks and nefarious market mentions. Whilst this information is now in the public domain and cannot be removed, it serves as critical insight into where security pitfalls lay.

Optional services (up to six):

Industry Vector

Threat Actors often target specific industries. We actively hunt for cyber incidents that are affecting a monitored industry, enabling you to adjust your security posture as required.

Third-Party Supplier

Supply chain attacks are becoming increasingly prevalent, essentially handing access to multiple organisations' data through the effort of breaching just one. We can actively listen and watch over public sources of information regarding chosen suppliers and inform you if a breach or cyber security concern is discovered. 

Executive Monitoring

The key to a good phishing campaign is the abuse of trusted relationships. One such instance of this is imitating key individuals within an organisation. Executive monitoring assists in protecting key personnel within an organisation against social media impersonation such as Twitter and LinkedIn.

Vulnerability Disclosures

Vulnerability disclosures are commonplace on the Internet of Things and remain a fundamental check to ensure software and hardware are patched and up to date. We take this detection one step further: instead of notifying about day-to-day disclosures. ThreatWatcher actively seeks out the most threatening. This consists of Zero Day discussions by threat actors, recent proofs of concept, and vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited in the wild.

Infrastructure Monitoring

Our Infrastructure Monitoring specifically monitors publicly facing IP addresses or CIDR ranges that have been added to the IP Watch List. This monitoring aims to identify malicious mentions of monitored IP Addresses across all available sources, as well as assess increased IP Risk Scores that might be associated with online activity.

Domain Abuse

We further enhance the protection of your brand and act against phishing campaigns or impersonation. This module actively hunts for certificate registrations that match that of the monitored domain in proximity. This is effective against abuse such as typosquatting. ThreatWatcher also has an additional service where malicious domains can then be taken down on behalf of the client.

In addition to these service modules, you also have the option to request upgrades such as monthly summaries which detail all the alerts you have had in the last reporting period,  Analyst on Demand which includes several days where one of our expert analysts carries out a piece of defined work (such as a detailed look into a certain threat), and takedowns which is ideally suited to clients with the domain abuse module.