Cyfirma: Threat Intelligence—A Game Changer in Cybersecurity

The ever-growing competition between hackers and security providers to outsmart each other adds fuel to the fast-moving cybersecurity sector. The Covid-19 pandemic mandated most organisations shift their workforces to remote work setups, thereby posing new cybersecurity risks. Home offices are frequently less secure than centralised offices, which are more likely to have protected firewalls, routers, and access management managed by IT security teams. Also, traditional security vetting may not be as thorough as the usual office systems, and cybercriminals may take advantage of such loopholes to breach the system. As a result, focusing on the security problems of distributed workforces is a critical cyber security trend. Identifying and mitigating emerging security vulnerabilities, strengthening systems, installing security controls, and ensuring proper monitoring and documentation are all part of this process.

In reality, cybercriminals are interested in databases, financial information, private emails, trade secrets and login credentials. Through phising attacks and other malware, cybercriminals try to steal data--thereby imposing huge risks to organisations. At this juncture, Cyfirma, a Singapore based Cybersecurity solution firm, is the world’s first platform to provide threat discovery and cyber intelligence to organisations and safeguard businesses against irreversible damage.

In this context, an essential aspect of providing strong cybersecurity is to delve deep into the idea of threat intelligence. Threat intelligence can be defined as a process in which the threat intelligence firms tries to put themselves in the shoes of perpetrators to identify those who may try to break into a client’s network. The information collected during the process can help the law enforcement agency take legal actions against the perpetrators. Thereby, to head towards a right source in detecting cybercrimes is the first imperative.

At this juncture, Cyfirma, combines cyber intelligence with attack surface discovery and digital risk protection to deliver early warning, personalised, contextual, outside-in, and multi-layered insights. With cloud-based AI and ML-powered analytics platform, Cyfirma provides the hacker’s view with deep insights into the external cyber landscape, helping clients prepare for impending attacks.

In tune with threat intelligence, Cyfirma’s DeCYFIR platform is an external threat landscape management platform designed to defend the client’s organisation by offering visibility of attack surfaces, building a digital risk profile, and personalised cyber-intelligence to predict imminent attacks. Also, another product called DeTCT by Cyfirma, is a digital risk discovery platform that provides required human agility and machine speed to keep businesses safe from hackers. DeTCT helps weaponise digital platforms and reveal attack surfaces by tracing digital footprints. DeTCT monitors millions of data sources to bring insights on clients’ network and system weaknesses, all from the hackers’ point of view. Cyfirma also provides quick revelation of data breaches and leaks and work towards regulatory and legal compliance with clear remediation tactics. DeCYFIR deploy tens of thousands of automated agents to monitor the dark web and ensure 24/7 surveillance. CyFIRMA uses an impactful approach to monitor hackers’ conversations detailing target companies along with the incubation, planning and execution of the attacks.

Concomitantly, Cyfirma’s predictive detection capability takes away the element of surprise from these cyber attacks as the client is well aware to perform actions to prevent data exfiltration and loss. The quintessential quality of Cyfirma is to provide a vantage point to see threats from hackers view and keep the clients ahead of the hackers in the race of cybersecurity.