Threat intelligence
What this is
Threat intelligence and digital risk protection cover what exists outside your perimeter and refers to you. Credentials for sale. A lookalike domain registered last night. A data set offered on a forum. An executive impersonated on a messaging app. A subdomain you forgot, indexed by someone who did not.
Why it matters
Working credentials are sold before they are used, and the domain that will carry an invoice fraud is registered days before the invoice is sent. Neither event happens inside the perimeter, so nothing on the perimeter produces the warning. The organisation could have known first, and the only reason it did not is that nobody was looking where the evidence was.
This is also where the difference between intelligence and a feed becomes a commercial one. A feed of global indicators is raw material that an analyst turns into a decision. A team with no analyst needs the part that names their own domain, their own brand and their own people, already scored. Regional buyers are asked, in audit and in tender, to show where external exposure is monitored and to name the source. A subscription nobody reads does not survive that question.
What it solves
- Credentials leaked through a personal account and still valid on a corporate service
- Domains and mobile applications registered to imitate the brand
- Company data offered for sale before anyone inside notices it has gone
- Internet-facing assets that appear without passing through anyone's change process
In our portfolio
Next to this
Exposure management answers the same question from the other side. S4E monitors the assets you own and tells you what to fix. Threat intelligence watches what other people are doing with your name.