AHAD to outline intelligence-driven visibility solution and services at GITEX 2021

AHAD will outline intelligence-driven visibility solution and services at GITEX 2021. The cybersecurity, digital transformation, and risk management firm, will demonstrate its next-generation intelligence-driven visibility solutions and services at GITEX Technology Week, demonstrating its dedication to safeguarding organizations from the rising threat in the digital domain.

AHAD will provide actionable threat intelligence to its customers as part of its latest product, allowing them to make informed decisions against threat actors and keep their organization secure. Through its Threat Intelligence offerings, which comprise Surface Web, Deepweb, and Darkweb solutions, the brand will also provide insights into the most difficult-to-reach regions of the threat landscape. Organizations can protect themselves at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels if they have access to unique, contextualized intelligence.

The finding comes at a time when cyber-attacks against businesses throughout the world have reached historic levels of complexity and volume, coinciding with the pandemic’s expanding digital usage. Organizations have their job cut out for them in keeping their digital presence secure, with attack operations being launched by everyone from state-sponsored hackers and organised crime empires to independent actors using black-ops technology and even amateurs with access to attack toolkits.

Muneeb Anjum, CEO, AHAD said, “Intelligence-driven visibility provides security practitioners with unprecedented insight into, and knowledge of, risks that their organizations are exposed to. With its predictive capabilities and real-time insights, AHAD’s Intelligence-Driven Visibility solution assists clients in the early detection and prevention of potential cyber-attacks and data breaches, transforming their security posture from being reactive to proactive and, ultimately, predictive, thus defeating hackers at their own game.”

Ankit Satsangi, CTO AHAD Said, “Do you have visibility across 100% of the internet? A question no organization today can answer affirmatively. With the introduction of Intelligence Driven Visibility, our objective is to help security practitioners gain extended visibility of their corporate data exposure, sale of network access, PII data etc. by leveraging actionable intelligence and mapping the external attack surface for early detection of potential cyber-attacks and data breaches. This becomes even more critical as the UAE is on its way to introducing a Data Protection Law”

Aside from the apparent financial losses and associated regulatory sanctions, cyberattacks frequently have a long-term impact on a company’s brand and market reputation. Customers are less willing to interact with companies that have been hacked, and they are even less likely to disclose sensitive personal and financial information with them. Worse, businesses are caught in a vicious cycle in which, even as the cost of defending against cyber-attacks rises to prohibitive levels, regulators impose massive fines for each security breach, which can reach millions of dollars in some cases, in addition to the restitution that businesses may be required to offer affected customers and suppliers.

AHAD seeks to solve this specific need-gap by making comprehensive security solutions more accessible, cheap, and available to businesses through the launch of its Digital Brand Protection Services at GITEX. This new set of services will protect businesses from financial losses, brand harm, and online abuse by actively tracking and removing Phishing sites, Malware sites, spoof domains, mimicking social network profiles, and spoof mobile apps.

Speaking on the launch, Rohan Daniel Nair, COO, AHAD, said, “While most businesses believe that they are transitioning to faster, high-performance environments, they end up exposing their cybersecurity vulnerabilities that become more obvious when transitioning to more advanced platforms. During such transitions, while organizations are busy focusing on process- and technology-related changes, security issues are often overlooked, leaving hackers with free rein to exploit these vulnerabilities.

“This is where AHAD’s Digital Brand Protection Services step in. We have the tools, knowledge, and expertise to offer fully managed intelligence, detection, and threat hunting solutions for organizations. By making these solutions available for a fraction of the cost it would take to develop and consistently upgrade cutting-edge security capabilities in-house, we are helping businesses of all sizes to become more cyber resilient and protect their digital brands,”he added.

Brand abuse (finding and registering domain names that appear to be associated with a brand); social media impersonation of the brand or key executives for social engineering, customer-facing scams, fake news dissemination, etc.; malicious mobile apps that impersonate genuine brands; phishing; and fraudulent product advertising are just a few of the threats addressed by AHAD’s Digital Brand Protection Services.

AHAD’s newest offering includes fully managed threat hunting, intelligence, detection, and takedown of threats outside the brand’s online perimeter; scans and takedowns of social media platforms and app stores for fake profiles, apps, and products; identification of all malware components; and identifying and compiling known fraudulent domains used in attacks in blocklists to prevent consumers from accessing known malicious domains. A comprehensive security suite is no longer just a nice-to-have competitive advantage, but a fundamental business need in today’s increasingly complex threat landscape.