The most common strategy cyber attackers use to gain unauthorized access to valuable business data is extremely simple: look for a weakness and exploit it. Organizations that practice continuous threat management seek to derail this strategy by finding weaknesses first and addressing them in a proactive approach to cybersecurity that is efficient and effective.
“Action is faster than reaction,” states Taylor Pierce, Vice President of Sales for Praetorian. “Organizations that take a reactive approach to cybersecurity increasingly find themselves playing catch-up, reacting to breaches instead of preventing them. For most enterprises, eliminating every vulnerability is unrealistic; the key to reducing risk is in proactively identifying and prioritizing exploitable vulnerabilities that open attack paths to critical environments and sensitive data.”
Praetorian is a global leader in proactive security that is reshaping the cyber security landscape with its Chariot security solution. Designed by Praetorian’s team of veteran, customer-obsessed engineers to provide unparalleled security coverage, Chariot combines customization and automation in a platform that identifies vulnerabilities and activates remediation before threat actors can exploit them.
“Chariot provides organizations with a unified and comprehensive approach to cybersecurity that consolidates offensive security tools and initiatives into a singular capability, enhancing visibility across teams,” Pierce explains. “It’s an integrated approach that streamlines processes and enables organizations to focus efforts on their most critical risks.”
Unleashing next-level continuous threat management
Continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) is an approach to cyber security that proactively probes an organization’s attack surfaces for weaknesses. Vulnerable areas are prioritized and given the resources and attention needed to mitigate risks.
Praetorian’s Chariot is a unified managed service platform that empowers next-level CTEM. It combines every aspect of CTEM, including attack surface management, vulnerability management, continuous penetration testing, breach and attack simulation, and exploit intelligence.
“By consolidating cybersecurity efforts under one platform, organizations can more effectively reduce complexity, identify and address threats, and eliminate the costs associated with managing multiple disparate solutions,” Pierce shares. “Furthermore, the holistic view provided by Chariot enhances strategic decision-making and ensures a more resilient and robust security posture.”
Increasing visibility of exploitable risks
Attack surface management is one of the key benefits Chariot provides, as the attack surface organizations must address today is constantly expanding. Chariot provides complete visibility of an organization’s unique risks through continuous discovery, identification, and monitoring of its digital landscape.
Red teaming, which deploys cyber security experts to emulate the tactics of actual hackers, is central to Praetorian’s approach to CTEM. Its team of experts proactively tests users’ security posture through ongoing real-world attack simulations to provide actionable intelligence that assists organizations in prioritizing their security investments and implementing targeted improvements.
The advanced detection capabilities provided in attack surface management include secrets detection, which identifies and mitigates the risk of exposing sensitive information within codebases. Vulnerabilities resulting from CI/CD misconfigurations are automatically detected by Gato, Praetorian’s proprietary GitHub misconfiguration scanner.
Chariot also enhances cyber security efforts by reducing the noise caused by false positives. By combining automation with human-driven context and triage, Chariot eliminates false positives, freeing up security teams to focus on actual threats.
“Alert fatigue occurs when security teams are overwhelmed by a high volume of alerts, many of which are false positives or low priority,” Pierce explains. “This can lead to important alerts being ignored or missed, increasing the risk of successful cyber attacks. Our platform addresses alert fatigue by leveraging advanced algorithms and machine learning to prioritize and filter alerts, ensuring security teams are focused on the vulnerabilities that actually matter. We want to alert on exploitable risk, not superficial detections.”
Providing intel on emerging threats
Chariot’s threat intelligence feature monitors and assesses emerging threats to ensure its users are never caught off guard, serving as an early warning system that provides an in-depth analysis of exploits used in the wild and the threats they pose. Chariot also provides a threat correlation that leverages advanced algorithms to reveal how new threats affect an organization’s specific environment.
“Every organization holds valuable data that cybercriminals can exploit, whether it’s financial information, intellectual property, or personal customer details,” Pierce says. “Without a program that proactively identifies how emerging vulnerabilities impact their environment, organizations are forced to respond in an ad hoc manner that results in a constant stream of unplanned work.”
In an increasingly digital world, robust cybersecurity measures are essential for the continuity, reputation, and overall success of any organization. Chariot provides a level of protection essential for protecting data and maintaining customer trust. It delivers next-generation cyber security solutions that allow users to stay several steps ahead of attackers.
