For as long as organizations have had adversaries, they invested in gathering external intelligence about them. Exactly who are our adversaries? What are their strategies and tactics? And to what extent have they compromised our organization’s assets?

So too, information security organizations will benefit by complementing their internal defense-in-depth architecture with external intelligence about cyber criminals and their activities.

The Verizon Business 2010 Data Breach Investigation Report found that 61% of the breaches they investigated were discovered by a third party. The Verizon Business DBIR also found that 70% of breaches accounting for 98% of the records stolen were caused by External Agents. Of those, 85% were attributed to organized criminal groups.

Clearly, a service that provides external intelligence about these groups and their activities would be a valuable complement to your internal security efforts.

Seculert offers enterprises a cloud-based External Intelligence service that minimizes business risks and potential losses by providing early detection of cybercrime events. This unique service leverages Seculert’s patent-pending technology to detect the broadest possible array of malware threats. The service gathers intelligence from multiple sensors, analyzes malicious content and activity, identifies cybercrime servers and detects corporate-specific attacks.

Seculert’s service sends alerts to corporate IT managers in real-time when cyber threats attempt to penetrate the corporate network, with detailed information related to the affected network domains and machines. This allows organizations to act swiftly and decisively in the event of a threat, in most cases blocking the malicious elements and averting significant data and monetary losses.

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Seculert represents a breakthrough in External Intelligence comprehensiveness and specificity.