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To keep up with today’s constantly evolving cyber threat landscape, organizations must continuously adjust to new risks. Emerging threats must be identified, defenses tested, and vulnerabilities addressed before they are exploited. This methodology, known as continuous threat exposure management (CTEM), requires an approach to cybersecurity that is proactive rather than reactive.
Praetorian is an offensive cybersecurity company that guides the world’s top organizations in designing, deploying, and maintaining effective CTEM processes. Its Chariot cybersecurity platform gives organizations a comprehensive and cost-effective solution for empowering ongoing, impactful, and proactive cybersecurity.
“Taking a reactive approach to cybersecurity dramatically increases the risk of experiencing significant and irreparable damage,” warns Justin Copeland, Director of Product Marketing for Praetorian. “Organizations that wait for threats to manifest expose themselves to data breaches, financial loss, reputational damage, and legal liabilities.”
The features Chariot delivers allow organizations to go on the offensive, staying several steps ahead of bad actors by continuously identifying and addressing the exploitable risks within their systems.
“Today’s threat landscape is evolving at such a rapid rate that traditional vulnerability management tools and approaches cannot keep pace,” Copeland adds. “These tools and approaches often fail to address emerging threats, leaving organizations vulnerable to novel and sophisticated attacks that proactive, threat-informed strategies could have mitigated or prevented.”
Providing a proactive defense in a comprehensive platform
Chariot brings all the tools needed to embrace CTEM into one comprehensive cybersecurity platform. Rather than spending time and resources managing fragmented point solutions and costly piecemeal modules, Chariot users can tap into one interface and quickly understand their risks and the action steps needed to stay secure.
“It’s an integrated process that streamlines processes and empowers enhanced coordination among security tools and teams,” Copeland explains. “Chariot brings the entire organizational cybersecurity program under one banner, enhancing visibility across the entire threat landscape by providing organizations with unified and comprehensive guidance to their cybersecurity.”
With Chariot, users receive a holistic approach to CTEM that amplifies the strategy’s overall effectiveness. Attack surface management, vulnerability management, breach and attack simulation, continuous penetration testing, and exploit intelligence are all part of the package. Technological innovation further increases the platform’s effectiveness by leveraging AI automation and advanced algorithms to increase efficiency and visibility.
The people behind the Chariot platform add yet another layer of effectiveness. Chariot is supported by a highly skilled team of certified, customer-obsessed engineers who are adversarial security experts committed to being the first to find and fix their clients’ vulnerabilities.
“Our people are the top 1 percent in the security space,” Copeland shares. “They are computer scientists, software engineers, computer engineers, and the occasional physicist and mathematician who are industry-recognized security researchers, open source developers, public speakers, and peer-reviewed authors. Their focus is leveraging their expertise and experience to enhance our users’ cybersecurity posture.”
Enhancing effectiveness by increasing focus
Although defensive cybersecurity forces organizations to respond to any suspicious activity, many that choose that route waste a lot of time and resources chasing false positives. According to Copeland, an offensive approach is not only more efficient but also more effective.
“Internal security teams required to respond to a high volume of alerts, many of which are false positives or low priority, begin to experience alert fatigue, but this can distract them from real threats and increase the risk of successful cyber attacks,” Copeland explains. “The Chariot platform eliminates alert fatigue by first using advanced algorithms and machine learning to initially prioritize and filter alerts and then layers our certified human offensive engineers to triage each finding. By taking this approach, Chariot puts the focus on exploitable risk, not superficial detections, ensuring security teams can focus on the most critical threats.”
Chariot increases cybersecurity efficiency by empowering user precision, allowing them to identify the threats that pose the highest risk to their systems and fill gaps before a threat becomes a breach. Its vulnerability management component systematically identifies, evaluates, and addresses vulnerabilities across an organization’s entire digital infrastructure.
As Chariot identifies weaknesses and prescribes remediating measures, attackers’ window of opportunity closes. Every element of an organization’s attack surface is probed, including internal, external, cloud, web apps, secrets, phishing, and third-party attack vectors. Every red flag is triaged to identify material risks that need attention and filter out superficial distractions.
While cyber attack methods can be sophisticated, their underlying strategy is simple: find a weakness and exploit it. Praetorian’s Chariot platform neutralizes that strategy by allowing organizations to be the first to identify their vulnerabilities. It gives organizations a proactive solution for ensuring their continuity, reputation, and overall success.
“Comprehensive cybersecurity is crucial for every organization because cyber threats do not discriminate based on size or industry,” Copeland says. “Without a program that proactively identifies threats and addresses them, organizations increase their risk of catastrophic loss.”
