Why Continuous Monitoring of Threat Chatter and Insider Threat Discovery is crucial

This April, we are focusing on OT Cybersecurity across the Renaissance partner network. In case you don't know, OT stands for Operational Technology. It is complementary to IT and defined by Gartner as "hardware and software that detects or causes a change through the direct monitoring and/or control of physical devices, processes, and events in the enterprise". That's a bit abstract. In the real world, OT systems are what monitor and control vital physical infrastructure. Examples range from manufacturing machinery in factories, infrastructure that controls and delivers electricity, gas and other energy sources to end-users, drinking water & waste removal services, transport networks, and health delivery services and machinery.

This infrastructure is crucial to the businesses that rely on it for manufacturing processes, as is society that depends on the utility and transport services listed above. So the OT infrastructure that monitors and protected them from cyberattack needs to be robust. Our OT spotlight page has numerous resources that can guide your journey to good OT. Have a look at the available information and contact us with any questions or to discuss your needs.

In addition to protecting production and delivery infrastructure, there is another aspect of cybersecurity that is often overlooked when thinking about OT. That is the protection of your ideas and intellectual property assets.

Intellectual Property Threats

The business intelligence, product designs, scientific processes, and other intellectual property that companies build up over time is just as important as the physical manufacturing systems that turn ideas into sellable products. They need to be protected. Just as importantly, businesses need to know quickly if their intellectual property has leaked or has been stolen.

Stolen intellectual property data is often sold on the dark web alongside more traditional data used by cybercriminals such as user account and personal information. Even if you know where to look to monitor for your data on the web and dark web, it is a full-time occupation. And the places where intellectual property is traded are constantly changing. There has been a marked increase in the attacks against bioscience companies in the last year trying to steal COVID-19 related scientific data. Often by state-backed cybercriminals.

MarketScape are experts in monitoring for leaked and stolen company information and intellectual property across the open and dark Web. The MarketScape platform has solutions that unify information streams from media and information sources, including business-critical content providers, into an integrated overview that delivers rapid notification if your intellectual property has been compromised. It also provides actionable insights to help address any breaches.

If your intellectual data is put up for sale on the web or dark web, MarketScape Platform will detect this and let you take the appropriate action. However, it does more than monitor for stolen information and data.

Protecting Non-Physical Assets

MarketScape Platform's solutions and products provide both intelligence about data loss from your organisation (via external or internal threats), as well as providing timely information about industry competitors who may be planning to release products that directly compete and impact your operations.

The MarketScape Platform provides:

Competitive and Market Intelligence - monitor and mine open-source data, helping you discover information on current and future competitors, product launches, and new innovations that may have the potential of impacting your operations.

Bioscience Research Monitoring - current awareness of breakthroughs and general scientific intelligence is of paramount importance for life science companies. The industry is constantly evolving with new products hitting the market, and there are ongoing revolutionary changes and new regulations frequently appearing.

Cybersecurity Intelligence Monitoring - provides actionable insights via real-time monitoring of cyberattacks across the dark web, the deep web, fraudster-to-fraudster social media conversations, and other digital channels.

Law Enforcement Integration - the MarketScape platform is used extensively by cybersecurity experts working in and with law enforcement agencies. Building on close relationships with specialists across the sector feeds back early intelligence about emerging threats and allows for early protections and mitigations to be put in place.

MarketScape Products

The MarketScape Platform comprises four products designed to slot into existing security workflows. The products are:

MarketScape Secure Cloud - cloud-native edition of MarketScape Platform. It requires no infrastructure deployment on-premise. Rapidly deploy to quickly start gathering the intelligence on areas relevant to an organisation. With immediate insights being generated and reported on in real-time. All via the Cloud.

MarketScape Enterprise - an on-premise edition of the MarketScape Platform for installing on your servers and behind your firewalls. This version has all the same features as the Cloud edition. It is available to meet the requirements of companies that need to comply with any data regulations that they fully control all their data. Or for organisations who don't want to use the Cloud version for any other reason.

Darkweb - a fully automated dark web monitoring and data collection solution. MarketScape has built the world’s leading technology to automatically, anonymously and continuously collect, index and structure actionable data from the dark web. This approach is very different from conventional dark web monitoring approaches that heavily rely on human operatives.

MarketScape API - a fully functional API to allow an organisation to integrate the MarketScape Platform into their security and monitoring workflows and products. Or to leverage third-party solutions along with the enhancement provided by the MarketScape Platform.