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AI-powered platform that stops cyber threats before impact
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Limited third-party integrations
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Consolidated cybersecurity solution

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Overview

ZeroFox External Cybersecurity Platform offers a consolidated solution for identifying, verifying, and eliminating external cyber threats that could impact businesses.

Safe-guarding the digital presence across surface and dark web, social media, and online marketplaces, it combines cyber threat intelligence, attack surface intelligence and digital risk protection with AI-driven correlation.

Emphasizing the importance of human-vetted validation in tandem with AI, it aims to reduce noisy, unvalidated alerts and threats that may slip through.The platform works in three key steps.

Firstly, the discovery stage continually identifies and monitors various elements of a business's digital presence, such as domains, IPs, social accounts, and executive profiles.

ZeroFox consistently tracks these elements for any emerging risks.Secondly, the validation stage where the detected signs are turned into actionable insights.

ZeroFox uses automation and human expertise to determine the immediate risk, relevancy, and reality of these threats.Lastly, the disruption stage where ZeroFox acts on these validated threats through automated, response workflows.

The intention is to disrupt the attacker's activities, shut down instances of abuse and suppress repeated activity on a large scale.The cybersecurity platform turns global visibility into prioritized decisions and rapid action to protect brands, people, and operations in both digital and physical realms.

It offers specific solutions tailored towards different teams such as IT & Ops, Sales, Marketing, Product & Engineering, and Leadership. It is designed to protect from many forms of digital risks including phishing, impersonations, fraud, exposed infrastructure, and third-party risks.

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Pros

  • Consolidated cybersecurity solution
  • Monitors digital presence effectively
  • Cover surface, dark web
  • Manages social media threats
  • Detects online marketplace security risks
  • Combines various intelligence types
  • Applies human-vetted validation
  • Reduces false-positive alerts
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  • Tracks emerging risks
  • Actionable insights generation
  • Rapid response workflows
  • Disrupts attacker's activities
  • Shuts down abuse instances
  • Tailored solutions for teams
  • Covers various digital risks
  • Protects against phishing
  • Detects impostors
  • Exposed infrastructure protection
  • Third-party risk management
  • Protects domains and IPs
  • Validates risk through automation and human expertise
  • Global visibility in threats
  • Specific solutions for IT, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Leadership
  • Contextual alert system
  • Unified threat intelligence platform
  • Automated takedowns
  • Threat channel infiltration
  • Asset fingerprinting
  • Finished, contextual adversary insights
  • Tracks stolen data chatter
  • Forensics to support investigations
  • Guides breach response
  • Detects exposed accounts
  • Delivers finished intel
  • Enables self-serve intelligence search
  • Automated action integration with various platforms
  • Protects against phishing, impersonations and fraud scenarios
  • Monitors 180+ platforms
  • Detects synthetic media, impersonation
  • Analysts infiltrate invite-only channels
  • Executes numerous disruptions annually
  • Flexible pricing options
  • Complete protection coverage (cyber and physical)
  • Seamless scalability with growth

Cons

  • No mobile platform support
  • Potential over-reliance on human validation
  • No custom alert configuration
  • No threat data export option
  • Poor threat triage prioritization
  • Limited third-party integrations
  • Lack of real-time threat detection
  • No local language support
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  • Difficulties in managing large-scale data

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Initial release May 10, 2023 Current
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FAQ 12

What is the primary function of the ZeroFox External Cybersecurity Platform?
ZeroFox External Cybersecurity Platform is a comprehensive solution that identifies, verifies, and eliminates external cyber threats that could impact businesses. The main function is to safeguard digital presence, whether it's on the surface or dark web, social media, or online marketplaces. Combining cyber threat intelligence, attack surface intelligence, and digital risk protection, it aims to prevent and mitigate digital risks potentially harmful to businesses.
How does ZeroFox use AI in the threat detection process?
ZeroFox uses AI in several stages of the threat detection process. Firstly, AI is used in the discovery stage to continually identify and monitor various elements of a business's digital presence such as domains, IPs, social accounts, etc., for any emerging risks. Secondly, AI powers the process of turning detected signs into actionable insights, automating the analysis to ascertain the immediate risk, relevancy, and reality of these threats. Lastly, AI helps in the automated response workflows during the disruption stage which acts upon the validated threats.
What is the three-step process that ZeroFox follows for threat detection and elimination?
ZeroFox follows a three-step process for threat detection and elimination. These are the discovery stage where ZeroFox identifies and monitors various aspects of a digital presence. Secondly, during the validation stage, detected signs are evaluated by combining large-scale automation with human expertise to ascertain the immediacy, relevancy, and reality of these threats. Lastly, in the disruption stage, ZeroFox acts upon the verified threats using automated response workflows to interrupt the attacker's actions.
How does ZeroFox incorporate human-vetted validation and why is it important?
ZeroFox incorporates human-vetted validation during the second stage of its process. This stage involves combining AI and human expertise to determine the immediate threat, relevancy, and validity of detected threats. Human-vetted validation is crucial because it helps to cut through noise, limit false positives, and ensures that teams are focusing only on threats that warrant action. This results in a higher quality and accuracy of threat detection and enables a substantive response.
What digital elements does ZeroFox track for emerging risks?
ZeroFox continually identifies and monitors various elements of a business's digital presence including domains, IPs, social media accounts, and executive profiles. These elements are consistently tracked for any emerging risks as part of the platform's proactive approach to enhancing businesses' external cybersecurity.
How does ZeroFox turn detected signs into actionable insights?
ZeroFox turns detected signs into actionable insights by using a combination of automation and human expertise. The aim is to determine the immediate risk, relevancy, and the reality of these threats. Once these threats have been qualified and quantified, they can become actionable insights that can be used to formulate a response.
What happens during the disruption stage of ZeroFox cyber threat process?
During the disruption stage of the ZeroFox cyber threat process, the platform acts upon the validated threats through automated, response workflows. The goal during this stage is to interrupt attacker's activities, shut down instances of misuse, and suppress repeated activity on a large scale, enhancing the digital safety of businesses.
What teams can utilize the ZeroFox cybersecurity platform?
The ZeroFox cybersecurity platform can be utilized by different teams within a business. These include IT & Ops, Sales, Marketing, Product & Engineering, and Leadership teams. Each of these teams can use specific solutions tailored towards their needs, ensuring the platform’s benefits can be maximized across the organization.
What types of digital risks can ZeroFox protect a business from?
ZeroFox can protect a business from various forms of digital risks including phishing, impersonations, fraud, exposed infrastructure, and third-party risks. This capacity offers businesses a comprehensive solution for enhancing their external digital security.
What is the 'attack surface intelligence' feature of ZeroFox?
'Attack surface intelligence' refers to the capability of ZeroFox to gather intelligence on the entire digital presence of organizations, from surface to deep, and dark web. This includes keeping track of public facing digital assets like domains, IPs, and social media accounts, providing a complete view of an organization's vulnerability points which could be potentially exploited by attackers.
Can ZeroFox protect from phishing attempts and impersonation threats?
Yes, ZeroFox offers protection from both phishing attempts and impersonation threats. It situates mechanisms that identify and eliminate phishing threats aimed at deceiving users into providing sensitive data such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details. Moreover, it is designed to identify and address impersonation threats that aim to mimic identities of businesses and their executives to perpetrate fraud.
How does ZeroFox offer protection on both surface and dark web?
ZeroFox provides protection across both the surface and the dark web. The platform constantly monitors and discovers potential threats in a business’s digital presence–covering surface web, dark web, social media, and even online marketplaces. It uses this comprehensive visibility to turn global insights into prioritized decisions and rapid action, leading to a robust protection across different aspects of the web.
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