New intelligence service allows companies to protect their digital identity

Hackers often seek to imitate well-known companies in order to cash in on events as we saw in the wake of the recent WannaCry attacks.

It’s therefore important for companies to be aware of their digital presence and know if they are being impersonated online. Threat management company RiskIQ is launching a Digital Footprint Snapshot to provide an on-demand intelligence report of a firm's internet-facing digital assets.

"RiskIQ Digital Footprint allows organizations to more effectively discover, map, and monitor their internet-facing digital assets that may be susceptible to exploitation or compromise," says Steve Ginty, senior product manager at RiskIQ. "Now with the release of Snapshot, enterprises can obtain an on-demand report to account for often hidden and vulnerable digital assets, and use this report data to enrich their integrated risk management program."

The product allows any enterprise to discover and inventory external web assets and infrastructure across diverse domains, IPs, hosting providers, service providers, and affiliates that are connected to an organization. Snapshot uses RiskIQ's continuous internet reconnaissance, vast internet data sets, and advanced analytics to deliver an interactive Snapshot report with a filterable graph and inventory details of connected, internet-facing assets.

Security teams managing vulnerability assessment and penetration testing programs, can interact with visual aids and insights to uncover and account for external assets and pinpoint potential security and compliance exposures that require attention.

You can find out more on the RiskIQ website and a preview of the service giving a high-level snapshot is available via the RiskIQ Community Edition. It's also being demonstrated at BlackHat USA this week.

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