Preemptive Threat Intelligence is the practice of identifying threat infrastructure as it’s being set up, and before an adversary launches an attack. 

The data used in Preemptive Threat Intelligence provides teams with the ability to proactively respond to threats using enhanced insights, feeds and automated queries that reveal known and hidden infrastructure. 

In this blog, we’ll explore the concept of preemptive threat intelligence by explaining how much of global threat infrastructure is know at any one time, and the need for organizations to adopt a preemptive approach to threat intelligence, before explaining how Silent Push is helping organizations to detect and block hidden threats quicker and more effectively with its unique Indicators of Future Attack™.

Did you know that only 2% of threat infrastructure is known? 

Most security teams rely on inadequate threat intelligence data that does not reveal the full extent of an attack. 

As little as 2% of the infrastructure used by a threat actor in an attack is being tracked at any given point in time, with the remainder lurking under the surface and out of reach of traditional detection methods. 

This means that cyber defenders and threat hunters are operating mostly in the dark, as they attempt to understand where attacks originate from, and where they may appear next. 

Organizations need to have the ability to go beyond the 2% that’s easily detectable, and dive under the surface of the water to establish just how far down the iceberg goes – and what it’s actually made of – to make sure they’re better positioned to prevent a breach. 

Why is 98% of threat infrastructure hidden? 

Like any criminal, threat actors continually change their attack strategies to cover their tracks, and avoid detection. 

They understand and monitor traditional approaches to security that rely on stale lists (feeds) of domains and IPs that tell teams where an attack has BEEN, rather than where it’s coming FROM, and are constantly cycling through large amounts of infrastructure to cover their tracks. 

These feeds do not contain all the linked infrastructure used by a threat actor, and only contain publicly known Indicators of Compromise (IOCs). 

What if you could take one piece of infrastructure that is currently visible in an attack, and get insight on how it’s moved across the Internet, along with all the other pieces of Internet data it’s associated with, how its hosted (or has ever been hosted), and how it all fits together? 

These are the elements that are impossible for teams to reveal using a standard approach, and this is what makes up the 98% that’s currently hidden to the rest of the security industry. 

Why are organizations adopting Preemptive Threat Intelligence? 

Let’s use an analogy. You’re lucky enough to own a large house, on a sprawling estate, with multiple potential entry points dotted around that need to be monitored and secured 24/7. 

Would you rather rely on an alarm system that tells you when an intruder is at the door (or worse still, when they’re in your house), or would you prefer to get alerted when they’re on their way and before they get anywhere near your neighborhood, so that you can stop them before they get to you? 

This is why security teams are pivoting away from legacy “at the gates” detection mechanisms. 

Preemptive Threat Intelligence data needs to deliver a cyber early warning system that stops criminals before they arrive at your organization’s digital front door – wherever that may be. 

How Silent Push Preemptive Threat Intelligence exposes threats and minimizes the risk of an attack 

Silent Push was started in 2020 by security industry veterans to improve the world’s ability to counteract global cybercrime. 

Our founders are determined to provide the most innovative solution to address the growing imbalance of security teams wasting time and resources fumbling around for information on hidden threat infrastructure, and increasing their organization’s exposure to an attack. 

Silent Push is the first and ONLY cybersecurity platform to deliver Indicators Of Future Attack (IOFA)™ – immediately actionable preemptive threat intelligence data that informs teams where attacks are coming FROM, in addition to where hey have been. 

Our early warning system stops the burglar from ever entering your neighbourhood, let alone your property, by giving your teams the ability to locate the 98% of threat infrastructure that they aren’t currently able to pinpoint. 

We do this by mapping out the relationship between billions of Internet data points using proprietary technology that gives security teams a 360-degree picture of any given attack landscape. 

Learn more about our unique approach to Preemptive Threat Intelligence 

Find out how your organization can use Preemptive Threat Intelligence to reveal hidden infrastructure and stop attacks at source.

Contact us here for more information.