Digital Cyber Twins with Machine Reasoning: Mobilizing Defense Teams for Holistic Cyber Risk Management
As the threat landscape continues to evolve and become more complex, organizations need to have a comprehensive approach to managing their cybersecurity risks. One effective approach is to implement a Continuous Threat Exposure Management Program that includes a TTP (tactics, techniques, and procedures) level Cyber Threat Susceptibility Assessment. By leveraging a Digital Cyber Twin with Machine Reasoning for TTP level Cyber Threat Susceptibility Assessment, organizations can continuously collect and analyze data from both the attack surface and the threat landscape, and update risk management strategies in real-time. This enables an evolutionary approach to holistic cyber risk management, by allowing organizations to stay ahead of the curve and respond to emerging threats quickly and effectively.
The Digital Cyber Twin uses a TTP level Cyber Threat Susceptibility Assessment to build attack path scenarios to enterprise crown jewels to assess the risk and prioritize the information provided defense teams. This process identifies potential attack path scenarios and prioritizes mitigations and defense techniques. By doing so, organizations can ensure that all defense teams are working from the same holistic knowledge of cyber risk.
The governance, risk, and compliance team can use the results of the assessment to map prioritized potential mitigations and defense techniques for attack path scenarios to higher-level security controls used in risk management. This helps the team identify potential gaps and prioritize areas for improvement.
The threat intelligence team uses the Digital Cyber Twin to prioritize adversary groups and malware by overall risk posed to the organization, number of crown jewels compromised, number of attack path scenarios possible, by crown jewel compromised, by attack path scenario, and by TTPs used. Threat modeling further tailors prioritizations based on the adversary motive, victim industry, adversary location, and victim location.
The treatments and security posture optimization team uses the Digital Cyber Twin for prioritizing issue mitigations by risk. They can take action from the organized issue information that includes device information, issue information, recommended mitigations, related defense techniques, target crown jewels, and scan information, which helps to prioritize the most critical issues and focus on the most effective defense techniques.
The threat detection and response team can get prioritize data sources and data components from the Digital Cyber Twin and to identify the most effective defense techniques for detection and response. This helps to ensure that the organization has prioritized the most effective threat detection and response capabilities.
Other cyber defense teams that can be mobilized from the TTP level Cyber Threat Susceptibility Assessment in the Digital Cyber Twin may include:
DevOps Team: The DevOps team can use the results of the Digital Cyber Twin's TTP level Cyber Threat Susceptibility Assessment to improve the security posture of the organization's software development practices. By identifying potential vulnerabilities in the code base and prioritizing remediations based on the insights gained from the Digital Cyber Twin, the DevOps team can help to ensure that security is integrated into the software development life cycle.
Data Privacy and Protection Team: The data privacy and protection team can use the Digital Cyber Twin's TTP level Cyber Threat Susceptibility Assessment to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities related to the protection of sensitive data. By prioritizing defenses and remediations based on the insights gained from the Digital Cyber Twin, the data privacy and protection team can improve the overall security posture of the organization's data protection practices.
Physical Security Team: The physical security team can use the results of the Digital Cyber Twin's TTP level Cyber Threat Susceptibility Assessment to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities related to physical security. By prioritizing defenses and remediations based on the insights gained from the Digital Cyber Twin, the physical security team can improve the overall security posture of the organization's physical security practices.
Third-Party Risk Management Team: The third-party risk management team can use the Digital Cyber Twin's TTP level Cyber Threat Susceptibility Assessment to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities related to the organization's third-party relationships. By prioritizing defenses and remediations based on the insights gained from the Digital Cyber Twin, the third-party risk management team can help to ensure that the organization's third-party relationships are secure and do not pose a risk to the organization.
By using a Digital Cyber Twin with Machine Reasoning for TTP level Cyber Threat Susceptibility Assessment, organizations can mobilize their defense teams and focus their efforts on the most critical areas of cybersecurity risk. This approach enables organizations to continuously collect and analyze data from both the attack surface and the threat landscape, and update risk management strategies in real-time. By doing so, organizations can identify emerging threats and vulnerabilities as they arise and take swift action to mitigate them. With a more comprehensive and holistic approach to cybersecurity risk management, organizations can better protect themselves against a wide range of threats and stay ahead of the constantly evolving threat landscape.