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RiskIQ Named a Leader for Digital Risk Monitoring by Independent Research Firm
RiskIQ
today announced it was among the nine select companies that Forrester (News - Alert)
invited to participate in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Risk Monitoring,
Q3 2016, an evaluation for security and risk professionals. In this
evaluation, RiskIQ was cited as a Leader based on its scores in the
Strategy, Current Offering, and Market Presence categories, with the
top-ranked scores in the Current Offering category and among the highest
scores in the Market Presence category. Participants were judged on 27
criteria including data coverage, digital governance, corporate strategy
and vision and number of customers to determine category positioning.
RiskIQ believes that the category creation of digital risk monitoring
(DRM) is recognition by the research firm of the disruption to
traditional security programs by the rapid Internet, cloud, mobile and
social media adoption by the business. DRM is now a must have capability
for the CISO as inside the perimeter security technologies have failed
in the face of targeted cyber attacks and threats that exploit user
trust. Security teams require a holistic view of all their assets that
live beyond the firewall - their digital footprint - and must rely on
internet data to observe the activities of cyber-criminals and to
prevent cyber-threats and data breaches.
"[Security and risk pros] track a much smaller portion of their
environment than they realize. Without comprehensively and persistently
monitoring risk in digital channels, companies remain susceptible to a
wide variety of brand, cyber, and physical risk events," according to
the Forrester Research (News - Alert) report.
Many of the risks in the digital landscape are still emerging as threat
actors find clever ways to exploit blind spots in an organization's
attack surface and prey on the general population who use digital
channels to interact with brands.
"Despite the high stakes, many organizations struggle to improve digital
risk visibility and mitigate related risks because: digital footprints
are incredibly vast and chaotic … digital risk comes in countless shapes
and sizes … companies are at the mercy of digital channels for control
and enforcement … [and] generic online or social media monitoring
provides a false sense of security," wrote Forrester Research.
In addition to being named a Leader in DRM, RiskIQ was specifically
recognized for providing the "broadest coverage of social, mobile, and
web data," Forrester Research stated, "RiskIQ covers a practically
endless list of digital channels to provide customers a comprehensive
digital system of record. Beyond that, RiskIQ monitors a large set of
official and unofficial mobile app stores, and it's one of the only
vendors in this Forrester Wave to cover malvertising, including analysis
of Facebook's (News - Alert) ad ecosystem."
By leveraging its proprietary sensor network and virtual web crawlers -
which use behavior characteristics to mimic real users, RiskIQ is able
to help fill the digital risk monitoring gap left by weak and/or
incomplete solutions.
"We are committed to enhancing the tools and data that threat
researchers can easily access in order to address the growing and
evolving digital threat landscape," said Elias Manousos, CEO of RiskIQ.
"We launched our new Security Intelligence Services in July. It uses the
internet itself as a detection system and is the only service to provide
network defenders with true insights into how adversaries are using
infrastructure to attack. In September, we added more support and
educational resources for our channel partners to help expand the base
of 'weaponized good guys,' and have near-term plans to expand the
capabilities of our research and investigation platform RiskIQ
PassiveTotal."
RiskIQ and Forrester analyst, Nick Hayes will present a webinar on the
"Crucial Components Of Digital Risk Monitoring" on October 26 at 11 a.m.
PT, register
here. For a complimentary copy of the report, click
here.
About RiskIQ
RiskIQ is a cybersecurity company that helps organizations discover and
protect their external-facing known, unknown, and third-party web,
mobile, and social assets. The company's External Threat Management
platform combines a worldwide proxy and sensor network with synthetic
clients that emulate users to monitor, detect, and take actions against
threats. RiskIQ is used by thousands of companies including many of the
Fortune 500 and leading financial institutions to protect their digital
assets, users, and customers from external security threats. The company
is headquartered in San Francisco, California and backed by growth
equity firms Summit Partners and Battery Ventures.
To learn more about RiskIQ, visit www.riskiq.com.
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