Fortinet Targets Risks at Reconnaissance Phase With ‘Outside-in’ View

Fortinet Targets Risks at Reconnaissance Phase With ‘Outside-in’ View

Fortinet today introduced its digital risk protection service combining external attack surface management, brand protection, and adversary-centric intelligence offerings to counter cyberattacks at the first stage.

The service — dubbed FortiRecon — integrates artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities with FortiGuard Labs cybersecurity experts to offer an interface and reports to help security teams and executives to understand how the attackers view their organizations from the outside, while providing guidance on risk and compliance management, prioritization of remediation efforts, and targeted threat research and intelligence.

In the phase of early reconnaissance, adversaries will gather as much intelligence about their target as possible to determine if and how they would exploit an organization, Fortinet warns.

“The sooner in the attack cycle you identify and stop an adversary, the less costly and damaging their actions,” Fortinet CMO John Maddison said in a statement. “Employing a powerful combination of human and artificial intelligence, FortiRecon provides organizations with a view of what adversaries are seeing, doing and planning.”

To help organizations understand their risk profile early, Fortinet offers external attack surface management designed to provide an “outside-in view” of users and their subsidiaries to identify servers, credentials, public cloud service misconfigurations, and even third-party partner software code vulnerabilities, the vendor claims.

In the early stage, attacks commonly use techniques such as web-based typo-squatting, phishing impersonations, rogue mobile apps, credential leaks, and brand impersonation on social media. FortiRecon aims to help detect those activities early to allow security teams to take down websites or applications to stop damage and protect their organization’s brand.

In addition, FortiGuard Labs experts will curate custom threat intelligence for each FortiRecon user and provide recommendations specific to their company, industry, and geography.

FortiRecon is a “vendor-agnostic SaaS delivery model,” Maddison added. It can be used as a standalone service or added on top of the Fortinet Security Fabric.

The product is Fortinet’s newest member of its early detection and advanced response services, which also include FortiNDR, FortiXDR, FortiDeceptor, in-line sandboxing, along with automation capabilities from FortiAnalyzer, FortiSIEM, and FortiSOAR.

The FortiNDR also was one of the security vendor’s latest introductions, which uses AI capabilities and advanced analytics to establish baselines of normal network activity and identifies deviations that may indicate cyberattacks.

Source:
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/fortinet-targets-risks-at-reconnaissance-phase-with-outside-in-view/2022/06/

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