Industry
Engineering Consultancy
In order to gauge the damage of Cyber-attacks, incidents and breaches are categorized by industry so that researchers can get a better understanding of the industry's attack surface and threats.
If you're an Engineering Consulting firm that works with multiple industries, hackers will target you because you could provide them with more information than if they attacked each industry individually. You host proprietary information about their physical schematics, their data storage solutions, and any details that could provide an opportunity for hackers. You are the primary target of government-sponsored hackers or competitors performing corporate espionage because of the information you host.
Key benefits
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Holistic view of the infrastructure
Nanitor provides an overview of all devices, software, users, configurations, known vulnerabilities, and missing security patches matched against compliance requirements like ISO 27001. The outcome is a prioritized task list across your whole infrastructure that makes your remediation systematic and enjoyable.
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Risk-based prioritization
Make the most of your limited resources by prioritizing the highest-risk issues. Nanitor assesses the risk of discovered security issues based on external sources and assigns a prioritization score based on the asset criticality.
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Blast radius minimization
Reduce the risk of lateral movement by hardening relevant configurations and known vulnerabilities. The best practice benchmarks for security configurations and known vulnerability databases are included in the platform.
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Automatic monitoring
Nanitor automatically (in 5-minute intervals) checks and reports on thousands of compliance-related security issues across your infrastructure. Trust is good, verification is better.
Engineering Consultant firms do not have cybersecurity framework designed for their specific industry
If you’re a bank, a hospital, or a utility service organization, there are required frameworks you can follow tailored to your industry. These frameworks are designed to protect you from the risks that are specific to your industry and there are resources to help you implement the framework.
Engineering consulting firms do not have this luxury and have to decide which frameworks or combination of frameworks can help protect themselves from potential cyber-attacks.
Multiple compliance frameworks that can help you create a cybersecurity program
Nanitor provides several compliance frameworks that can be utilized as a blueprint and tailored to your organization's needs. You have the ability of prioritizing your implementations to address the risks that most affect you and you can filter out requirements to obtain an accurate view of your security posture. Once a framework is implemented or a combination of frameworks, you'll have the ability to systematically secure your IT system and continually measure the effectiveness of the security controls in your framework.
Address vulnerabilities that can be used to attack your network
Vulnerabilities are constantly being discovered in applications that exist in most environments. In 2021, a vulnerability was discovered in Log4j that affected popular infrastructures like Apple's iCloud and Amazon Web Services that owns one of the largest market shares in web hosting. Nanitor identifies the vulnerabilities that exist in your environment and provides information on the severity of these risks so that you can address them in a prompt manner.
Harden your systems by selecting from the various security benchmarks available
During the Colonial Pipeline attack in 2021 that shut down an oil pipeline in the US, the hackers entered by using older credentials that should have been disabled and that should have required multifactor authentication. If the organization would have implemented security benchmarks, those misconfigurations would have been identified. The various security benchmarks that Nanitor provides, allow you to identify these issues and they provide solutions on how to reduce the attack surface of your environment.
Create projects to systematically address the risks discovered
If you're implementing security controls and benchmarks from various sources, tracking all the identified issues and remediating them can be a daunting task. With Nanitor's Project feature, you can group issues together, track their progress, and report on the effectiveness of your remediation efforts. Nanitor logs activity related to the project and individuals assigned to the project can add comments as they address the issues.