The search for the DRP solution, an acronym for Digital Risk Protection, has grown at the same rate as cases of data leakage and damage to the reputation of brands that have had information stolen in criminal actions. Because DRP monitors threats to digital assets in all environments where exposure may occur. Thus, it accelerates the breadth and depth of protection of these assets in an organisation. And when a malicious event is detected, the solution has the ability to take action, remove infringing content and mitigate the impact.

Emerging technology

According to Gartner, the DRP solution is a set of tools and services that evolved from threat intelligence. In origin, while threat intelligence was intended to support security operations with human-based analytics, DRP focuses on increasing business resilience by protecting digital assets and brand reputation.

Although the demand for this technology has grown, the digital risk protection market is still emerging. Today, there are approximately 50 vendors worldwide, according to Gartner.

How the solution protects digital assets

DRP is comprised of technologies that protect critical digital assets and data from external threats. The solution provides visibility into sources on the surface web, and the dark and deep web, in order to identify potential threats to critical data. It also provides contextual information about threat actors, and the tactics and processes used to conduct malicious activity. And support is provided in four areas:

• Mapping - identifying and understanding exposed digital assets at risk;
• Monitoring - collection and analysis of mapped data with risk prioritisation and alerting capabilities and reporting that provides actionable intelligence;
• Mitigation - activities required to improve business resilience using people, processes and technology, such as taking down an active threat and remediating misconfigured environments;
• Management - ongoing activities required to improve security posture, prevent future threats and business operational impact, and implement effective protection against digital assets.

The strengthening of the national digital risk protection market

Many of the challenges faced by Brazilian organisations are different from those faced by brands in other countries. Therefore, every security solution needs to consider the reality of the companies it will protect. Mantis is a solution that reduces digital risks and was developed with purely national DNA, connected to the context of the brands that do business here.

There are many differentiators. Among them, Natural Language Processing (NLP), which gives Mantis the ability to figure out what a detected mention or event means. Whether in visual or audio form. By dealing with the nuances of human or natural language, such as spelling mistakes, slang or informal terms, NLP enables the understanding of social engineering contexts, machine translation in several languages and also negative sentiments in messages. This helps contextualise the malicious intent behind a cybercriminal's action.

In addition, Mantis reads images and describes audios. This means that if attack conversations detected on private messaging channels and dark web forums did not occur through text, but rather through images and audio exchanges, Mantis scans and transcribes the content. Thus, it deepens the monitoring of brand assets. This is also done in relation to domain registrations, social media and email accounts for company and product names/images, in situations of fraudulent claims, advertisements and credential harvesting attacks.

And since digital initiatives that rely on the increased use of mobile devices are increasing the size of the exploitable attack surface, Mantis also performs automated mobile app analysis. Mantis can identify weaknesses exposed within mobile apps within Google Play, such as keys, API URLs, passwords and sensitive information points.

Learn how DRP can reduce risk and mitigate business impact from criminal actions at layers of the internet that are beyond the reach of the firewall. Discover this emerging technology now.