Digital Risk Protection
Preventing, monitoring, countering online threats

Digital Risk Protection helps companies defend their reputation, stop data breaches, and reduce financial losses.

If your goals include equipping yourself with the tools to manage threats to your business online, Digital Risk Protection delivers. Achieving these goals becomes straightforward with a technological solution in hand. Many security teams strive to increase their awareness of digital threat landscapes, and X-RAY provides the necessary web crawlers, data analytics, and machine learning algorithms to hit that target. Other objectives include streamlining workflows and priotizing threats, and live alerts and AI risk prioritization supports these goals too.

Financially speaking, Digital Risk Protection cuts the costs of cyberattacks, data leaks, and security breaches. Cost-effective KPIs always go down well, as a rule. Proactive technology solves threats before they escalate, saving time, money, and reputations. Crucially, these reputations also contribute to a company’s ROI, as market value, investments, and customerbases depend on strong public perception.

When businesses focus on building data, fortification, and growth opportunities around their online assets, Digital Risk Protection helps achieve these goals.

The short answer: Yes.

The longer answer: Threat intelligence involves collating, interpreting, and distributing insights about an organizations strengths, weaknesses and emerging threats. For modern businesses, many of these threats manifest themselves across online landscapes, hence their relevance to digital risk management.

Businesses leverage their threat intelligence insights to build robust security strategies, reinforcing vulnerable assets, developing threat-specific defences, and expanding their security perimeters. To strengthen teams, business leaders also partner with external experts, and source new capabilities for researching and tackling threats.

Tools like the X-RAY RADAR deliver threat intelligence, and EBRAND’s takedown automation turns this intelligence into effective risk management.

The short answer: Yes.

The longer answer: Digital Risk Protection equips businesses to identify, monitor, and solve the risks surrounding their presence online. These risks include cybersecurity, brand reputation, and compliance management. For each of those three objectives, the threats, and the solutions, pertain directly to digital shadows.

The term ‘digital shadows’ refers to an organization’s digital footprint, and the traces and ripples it creates online. Unfortunately, malicious actors exploit these shadows, stealing assets and fuelling further crimes like fraud and cyberattacks. Businesses must therefore monitor their digital shadows, ensuring they’re not leaving vulnerable assets online, and enforcing any infringements or suspicious activity. Digital Risk Protection tools accomplish this goal, using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to detect anomalies within a company’s digital ecosystem.

Safeguarding digital channels with a robust tool like EBRAND’s X-RAY plays a vital role in today’s digital landscape. Overall, Digital Risk Protection fortifies online reputations, protects sensitive assets, and ensures reliable compliance.

Each phishing attack deploys distinct strategies to target victims and exploit digital assets. To understanding more about phishing, we can still look to its real-world namesake.

Commercial fishing companies create new technologies for effective technologies for scouring the oceans and pulling up sea creatures over the years. On the other hand, a shoreside fisherman might manually craft a unique lure to catch a certain species of fish in a specific stretch of coastline. The fishing world’s digital counterparts iterate on existing hooks to trick new targets, and tailor their attacks with specific victims in mind.

Here’s ten common types of phishing attack that hackers might level at your team:

1. Spear phishing
   
   Spear phishing scams occur when hackers personalize their attacks, targeting specific individuals with information, names, convincing reference points to enhance their deception.
2. Business Email Compromise (BEC)
   
   Spear phishing becomes a BEC attack when it specifically targets employees using their business email. Hackers often send BEC attacks from accounts spoofing a target’s colleague, with the intention of stealing company resources.
3. Whaling
   
   High-value spear phishing, AKA whaling, targets business leaders and c-suite executives.
4. Clone Phishing
   
   In clone phishing attacks, hackers create near-identical clones of legitimate digital assets like websites, login pages, or previously sent emails, filling them with malware to trick their targets.
5. Smishing
   
   Phishing attacks use a variety of channels and attack vectors. Security experts refer to phishing attacks that use SMS, text messages, or WhatsApp as ‘smishing’.
6. Angler Phishing
   
   Hackers spoof legitimate social media accounts to deceive victims, in attacks known as ‘angler phishing’. These fake assets also add evidence to phishing attacks on other channels.
7. Search Engine Phishing
   
   Search engine phishing involves advanced marketing tactics, as hackers create organic SEO listings or even PPC campaigns to promote their attacks. When their fraudulent, malware-laden pages achieve decent levels of traffic, search engine phishing attacks siphon data and ecommerce profits by deceiving would-be customers.
8. Tabnabbing
   
   In tabnapping attacks, hackers take advantage of a victim’s tendency to lose track of their tabs. Phishing malware opens a fake tab, which blends in with legitimate workflows to steal assets and spread further hacks.
9. Vishing
   
   Wishing, or voice phishing, involves phishing attacks via vocal channels, particularly phone calls and voice messages.
10. AI Phishing
    
    Hackers keep up with trends in AI, taking advantage of AI chatbots, deepfake audio and video, and auto-generated fake pages to trick their targets in AI phishing attacks.
    
    Crucially, hackers develop new phishing strategies all the time, innovating and iterating to bypass ageing defences. Digital Risk Protection helps businesses detect existing phishing campaigns, and pre-empt new techniques as they evolve.

Digital Risk Protection helps detect, understand, identifying, and counteract security threats online, forming an important part of cybersecurity. Businesses therefore incorporate Digital Risk Protection into their cybersecurity frameworks, whether they use MITRE ATT&CK or another strategic tool.

MITRE’s ATT&CK framework (Adversarial Tactics, Techiniques, & Common Knowledge) catalogues the types of cyberattacks that hackers use to trick, infiltrate, and exploit victims. With a Digital Risk Protection solution in place, businesses detect and monitor potentially malicious TTPs targeting their brand, team, or clients. EBRAND’s X-RAY scans emerging threats, and also compares a company’s assets with Common Knowledge records of existing attacks, reinforcing security strategies with third-party intelligence.

Digital Risk Protection also integrates with cybersecurity frameworks like the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework. The NIST framework provides guidance and best practice advice to help businesses understand, manage, and minimize threats online. As established, the X-RAY RADAR prioritizes understanding, and the TRACKER tool supports threat management and minimization.

Find out about how to strengthen your cybersecurity strategy by getting in touch with our Digital Risk Protection professionals.