Monitoring deep, dark and surface web to detect exposure of your sensitive data, secret projects and initiatives, privileged users, critical systems, IT infrastructure, and more.
Monitoring and alerting of third party data breaches impacting your employees’ emails, usernames, and personally identifiable information.
Assess the risk footprint and security posture of key business relationships to get a handle on external risk introduced through your extended attack surface.

Sign Up for Updates
Digital risk monitoring of key personnel with telemetry and risk metrics. VIPRecon provides broad coverage of social media, deep and dark web, as well as physical threat assessments.
Our Ransomware Response Readiness Assessment, Playbook and Table Top Exercise gives your organization the best chance to survive and recover.
Gain visibility of your digital footprint by reaching into the most active areas of the cyber underground.
Fully managed and tailored Threat Intelligence services that becomes an extension of your current security processes and provides real-time visibility on new threats.
Providing research and investigations into known threats, to save security teams time and stress during a cyber emergency.

Sign Up for Updates
GroupSense offers a comprehensive package of services for assessing and responding to ransomware attacks, including negotiations with threat actors.
Actively researching and monitoring threats from vendors or third-party companies that can affect organizational security.
Monitoring for threats to elections, VIPs, and more on social media to proactively prevent or mitigate digital risk.
Focusing on the threats and risks that matter to your security processes and providing intelligence and insights to prevent or mitigate digital risk.
Taking the next step in security services, by proactively taking down phishing sites or anonymously interacting with threat actors to provide better intelligence.
Active monitoring of your brand's digital assets to protect its reputation and stop further brand abuse from targeting unsuspecting victims.

Sign Up for Updates
Combining your cyber and fraud programs to effectively fight threat actors continually scamming or threatening assets within an organization.
Executives are prime targets for fraudulent activities, but with a proactive approach, any attacks or threats can be neutralized before causing any damage.
Governments, political parties and candidates must all act now to activate cyber threat intelligence services to harden their information security and get ahead of inevitable cyber threats to the election process.
2 min read

Protecting Pharmaceutial IP

Feb 27, 2024 9:30:08 AM

Pharmaceutical intellectual property (IP) is highly sought after by threat actors and cyber criminals. How can pharmaceutical companies protect their most valuable asset? GroupSense's Taylor Banks was featured in Pharma Manufacturing speaking on how we have protected pharma IP for our clients and how other organizations can approach cyber protection. Read the excerpt below or jump to the full article here.

Steps to protecting IP 

So, what can pharma manufacturers do to protect their IP? They need to be cognizant of the risks to their cybersecurity infrastructure and the IP it protects. Specifically, here are some points to think about when protecting IP: 

  • Prevention: To say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is an understatement when it comes to IP. A key aspect to prevention is understanding the vulnerabilities attackers are likely to exploit. This obviously includes knowing about vulnerabilities in your own infrastructure and patching them accordingly. It also includes understanding the intent of attackers — are the groups attacking similar organizations to yours, or are they focused exclusively on yours? This can all be discovered through cyber intelligence.

    Unfortunately, many vendors have overused this term and may not be able to provide this information. In contrast to 'dark web monitoring' services, high-fidelity cyber intelligence services not only locate stolen IP, but also interact with the actor to understand that the threat and payment offer are legitimate. This type of cyber intelligence also generally helps clients understand less visible weaknesses in their own security infrastructure, as well as the groups that are most likely to target them. Most of all, true cyber intelligence should be immediately actionable to make your organization more secure.
     
  • Early detection: In many cases, such as the insider threat above, the first sign of a breach is when stolen data, inappropriate access, or even actual substances — like raw material — is made available for sale on the dark web or other channels. The earlier this information can be identified, the less damage it is likely to do.

    The first step is to identify stolen IP (whether it’s a formula, data or an actual substance) and understand who the threat actor is. Is it an insider, or a group with a track record of similar attacks, a group with a history of not living up to its promises, or a 'lone wolf' who has a limited track record and is just looking to make some quick cash?

    It’s important to engage these actors appropriately, so they can be properly vetted and guided toward an appropriate resolution. There is real danger in not engaging with threat actors appropriately, because not interacting, or improper interactions, may do more harm than good. 

  • Resolution: Many organizations do not take the proper steps to understand how an IP breach occurred and how to remediate it. This is why so many organizations are plagued by multiple breaches — unless the vulnerability is addressed, other attackers can use the same approach to execute a breach. Even worse is when the same group 'goes back to the well' to penetrate a victim again. Every breach should include an action plan for ensuring it does not happen again. 

 

08182023_Pharma CTA A

Topics: News
Editorial Team

Written by Editorial Team

Featured

cyber-tips