Today’s expanding external attack surface has become a playground for cybercriminals and nation-state actors alike, posing a growing threat to US public sector organizations. Thankfully, the external cybersecurity market is maturing to better address these threats at a time when government agencies are starting to strategize their response to external risks.
Understanding External Risks
The federal government is a prime target for external threat actors seeking to diminish the government’s reputation and erode public trust. Given its often sensitive missions involving confidential data, maintaining reliable data and truthful messaging is critical to achieving its core mission — to serve and protect its citizens.
Historically, security vendors have offered an array of services essential to understanding an agency’s external risk, including:
- Raw and enriched threat intelligence feeds offering streams of compromised accounts, botnet data, and known indicators of malicious activity;
- Monitoring agency brands, social accounts, domains, personnel, locations, and other external assets across the surface, deep, and dark web;
- Vetting social and digital channels for alerts about imminent physical threats to protected agency personnel, locations, and other assets;
- Takedown and remediation services to remove impersonations, retrieve stolen data, block or take down fraudulent or phishing websites...Read More!
