Cybersecurity firm ESET is launching new threat intelligence services via commercially available reports to help give organizations, governments and partners guidance about specific threat vectors and attack sources.
The San Diego, Calif.-based firm says the threat intelligence services expand on the company’s research, which is published on cybersecurity blog WeLiveSecurity, as well as tri-annual threat reports, the firm says. The services are designed to help governments, businesses, managed service providers and other channel partners stay informed and gain an advantage in the fight against cybercrime.
The intelligence services from ESET include the company’s ongoing research into advanced persistent threats (APT) and associated reports, including activity summaries. A premium package for APT reports gives customers access to an ESET analyst for up to four hours each month.
ESET’s new threat intelligence services also includes threat intelligence feeds that give customers a real-time view of the worldwide threat landscape based on feeds from the company’s research centers. This is designed to enable security teams to act quickly on indicators of compromise in their environment.
According to ESET, available feeds (JSON or STIX 2.0 format) include malicious files, malicious domains, botnets, malicious IPs, malicious URLs, and APT information (included with the APT report offering).
Tony Anscombe, ESET’s chief security evangelist, in a statement says the value of curated, high-quality threat intelligence lies in cutting through information overload to proactively deliver relevant guidance on potential threats that matter to the organization.
“Rather than struggling to sift through huge, noncurated external datasets, or working with limited publicly available data, ESET’s customizable threat intelligence services enable security teams to quickly identify and prioritize emerging business risks and incoming threats – and provide the information necessary to implement a more proactive cybersecurity posture,” Anscombe says. “These services also accelerate incident response and reduce data breach impacts by giving a more complete picture of the threat actor, vectors, indicators of compromise, and malware behavior.”
