Risk Monitoring and Alerting Overview

ProcessUnity GRX is on a mission to map the cyber security profile of every organization around the globe. As part of this mission, we have partnered with Recorded Future to provide threat intelligence and data insights for all Customers and Third Parties within the GRX platform along with continuous Risk Monitoring and Alerting.

Recorded Future is a leader in threat intelligence that helps to identify a potential breach as well as brand abuse across third parties. Recorded Future can assist in proactively and continuously evaluating third parties and how their credentials, sensitive information and brand name is transacted across the deep, dark, and social webs.

Why Is Risk Monitoring and Alerting Important?

Most companies end up finding out about a breach of one of their third parties in a news headline. With our new Risk Monitoring & Alerting capabilities, you will have visibility to third-party potential breaches within your portfolio in near real-time, along with a weekly digest email. In addition, you’ll have the vital information and context needed to assess the possible impact on your business and collaborate with the affected Third Party to assess and manage the risk.

Third Parties or Customers that have a critical high risk alert or potential breach event on their own company will receive an email within 24 hours along with an in platform notification. Customers will receive a weekly digest summary email if any of their third parties in their portfolio have triggered a critical risk rule event.

Company Profile/Notifications

View Your Own Organization

• Accessible from the My Company Profile Page
• Recorded Future Widget with Risk Summary
  • Detailed view rules to help drive proactive mitigation and issue tracking
• Individual domain ratings insights from Risk Recon that are used to derive the overall rating

View a Third Party

• Accessible from any Company Profile Page
• Recorded Future Widget with Risk Summary
  • Summary of impacted rules for Third Party probing and investigation
• Individual domain ratings insights from Risk Recon that are used to derive the overall rating

Note: Users assigned to the Account Admin or TP Portfolio Manager user roles will receive the off-platform notifications about any relevant First or Third-Party events.

For questions/discrepancies/disputes on rules, contact [e-mail] directly.

Recorded Future Ruleset

The 7 Categories of Third-Party Risk 

• Breach or Incident Reporting
• Leaked Credentials
• Hygiene
• IP Address
• Dark Web
• Domain
• Threat Research

Severity Scale

• Very High (90-99): Observed very high severity threats 
• High (65-89): Observed high indicators of high severity threats and elevated cyber-risk
• Moderate (25-64): Observed over time indicators of moderate threats and cyber-risk
• Informational (5-24): Important for general situation awareness

Risk Rules & Risk Categories

Rule Name	Criticality	Rule Category	Description	Time Frame
Recent Security Breach Disclosure	Very High	Breach or Incident Reporting	Company reported a data breach in the last 90 days	Last 90 Days
Recent Validated Cyber Attack	Very High	Breach or Incident Reporting	Insikt Group assessed/validated a significant cyber event affecting this company in the last 90 days	Last 90 Days
Recent Reported Cyber Attack	High	Breach of Incident Reporting	Recorded Future has assessed a reported cyber attack affecting the company in the last 90 days	Last 90 Days
Recent Attention on Ransomware Extortion Websites	High	Breach or Incident Reporting	Company is mentioned on a Ransomware Extortion Website in the last 90 days	Last 90 Days
Domain With Unrestricted SPF Record	High	Hygiene	Company domain has an unrestricted policy statement (+all)	Current
Likely IT Policy Violations	High	IP Address	Hosting a TOR network node	Current
Recent High-Impact Abuse of Company Infrastructure	High	IP Address	Hosting Command & Control server or URL, Hosting Phishing site or URL, or Hosting Malware download site or URL	Last 56 Days
Hosts Recently Communicating With C&C Server*	High	IP Address	An IP address belonging to the company has been observed recently communicating to a known malware command and control server on uncommon ports.	Last 30 Days
Cyber Exploit Signal: Critical	High	Other	Current Cyber Exploit Reporting trend analytic is at Critical level	Current
Domain With DKIM Record With Weak Encryption	High	Hygiene	Company domain with a DKIM record that has an encryption strength less than 1024 bits	Current
Domain With Improperly Configured DKIM Record	High	Hygiene	Company domain with a DKIM record that has been improperly configured	Current
High Volume of Attention on High-Tier Forums	Moderate	Dark Web	Dark Web High-Tier Forum users have extensively talked about your company, sold accounts to your platform, or discussed using your platform for suspicious activities	All Time
High Volume of Attention on Dark Web Markets	Moderate	Dark Web	Dark Web Market users have extensively talked about your company, sold accounts to your platform, or discussed using your platform for suspicious activities	All Time
High Volume of Recent Attention on High-Tier Forums	Moderate	Dark Web	Dark Web High-Tier Forum users have talked about you extensively recently and are likely selling accounts or abusing your platform	Last 90 Days
High Volume of Recent Attention on Dark Web Markets	Moderate	Dark Web	Dark Web Market users have talked about you extensively recently and are likely selling accounts or abusing your platform	Last 90 Days
Recent Typosquat Similarity to Company Domain - DNS Sandwich	Moderate	Domain	A high volume of typosquats were detected as DNS Sandwich typosquats (e.g. excitingoffer.recordedfuture.com.suspicious.site.com)	Last 90 Days
Recent Typosquat Similarity to Company Domain - Punycode Typo or Homograph	Moderate	Domain	A high volume of typosquats were detected as Punycode or Homograph typosquats (e.g. go.recodedfuture.com or xn--ecordedfuture-9pc.com)	Last 90 Days
Domain With Overly Permissive SPF Record	Moderate	Hygiene	Company domain has a loose policy statement (?all)	Current
Domain With Multiple SPF Records	Moderate	Hygiene	Company domain has multiple SPF records	Current
Domain With Expired SSL/TLS Certificate	Moderate	Hygiene	Company domain with an expired certificate	Current
Domain With Self-Signed SSL/TLS Certificate	Moderate	Hygiene	Company domain where subject and issuer names are the same	Current
Domain With Insecure SSL Protocol	Moderate	Hygiene	Company domain using SSL 2.0 or SSL 3.0 protocols	Current
Domain With Deprecated TLS Protocol	Moderate	Hygiene	Company domain using TLS 1.0 or 1.1 protocols	Current
Domain With SSL/TLS Configuration With High-Risk Vulnerability	Moderate	Hygiene	Company domain with known SSL/TLS configuration vulnerability	Current
Domain With Ineffective HSTS Configuration	Moderate	Hygiene	Company domain with ineffective HSTS max-age configuration	Current
Possible IT Policy Violations	Moderate	IP Address	Hosting a Honeypot	Current
Infections Recently Reported in Company Infrastructure	Moderate	IP Address	Host of suspicious DNS names (fast flux, cluster of DDNS names), Infection reports on threat lists with higher credibility and fidelity, External honeypots reports suspicious traffic	Last 14 Days
Recent Possible Malware in Company Infrastructure	Moderate	IP Address	Target of IP connection from Malware Sample Analysis	Last 42 Days
Company IPs with often-exploited open ports	Moderate	IP Address	Company owned infrastructure identified via the associated IPs has been found as having often-exploited ports opened.	Current
Recent High Volume of Exposed Credentials	Moderate	Leaked Credentials	A high volume of company email addresses (20 or more) with passwords were exposed	Last 90 Days
Cyber Exploit Signal: Important	Moderate	Other	Current Cyber Exploit Reporting trend analytic is at Important level	Current
Company Website Using Technology Version With High-Risk Vulnerability	Moderate	Other	Company websites are running products affected by high-risk CVEs. Different patching methods and software fixes may should be taken into account when reviewing this information.	Current
Company Website Using Unsupported Technology Version	Moderate	Technology	Company website is running a software version that is no longer supported by the manufacturer. (See Unsupported Technology Versions)	Last 90 Days
Suspected Recent DDoS Attack Target	Moderate	Security Incidents	Recorded Future suspects that this company was the target of a DDoS attack within the last 90 days	Last 90 Days
Historical Security Breach Disclosure	Informational	Breach or Incident Reporting	Company reported a data breach more than 30 days ago.	Before Last 90 Days
Historical Validated Cyber Attack	Informational	Breach or Incident Reporting	Insikt Group assessed/validated a significant cyber event affecting this company over 30 days ago.	Before Last 90 Days
Historical Reported Cyber Attack	Informational	Breach or Incident Reporting	Recorded Future assessed a reported cyber attack affecting this company from over 90 days ago.
Historical Attention on Ransomware Extortion Website	Informational	Breach or Incident Reporting	Company is mentioned on a Ransomware Extortion Website before the last 90 days.	Before Last 90 Days
Attention on High-Tier Forums	Informational	Dark Web	Dark Web High-Tier Forum users have talked about you before and may sell accounts to or use your platform for suspicious activities.	All Time
Attention on Dark Web Markets	Informational	Dark Web	Dark Web Market users have talked about you before and may sell accounts to or use your platform for suspicious activities.	All Time
Recent Attention on High-Tier Forums	Informational	Dark Web	Dark Web High-Tier Forum users have talked about you recently and might be selling accounts or abusing your platform.	Last 90 Days
Recent Attention on Dark Web Markets	Informational	Dark Web	Dark Web Market users have talked about you recently and might be selling accounts or abusing your platform.	Last 90 Days
Recent Typosquat Similarity to Company Domain - Non-Punycode Typo or Homograph	Informational	Domain	A high volume of typosquats were detected as a typo or Homograph but not Punycode.	Last 90 Days
Historical Typosquat Similarity to Company Domain - DNS Sandwich	Informational	Domain	A high volume of typosquats were detected as DNS Sandwich typosquats (e.g. excitingoffer.recordedfuture.com.suspicious.site.com)	Before Last 90 Days
Historical Typosquat Similarity to Company Domain - Punycode Typo or Homograph	Informational	Domain	A high volume of typosquats were detected as Punycode or Homograph typosquats (e.g. go.recodedfuture.com or xn--ecordedfuture-9pc.com)	Before Last 90 Days
Historical Typosquat Similarity to Company Domain - Non-Punycode Typo or Homograph	Informational	Domain	A high volume of typosquats were detected as a typo or Homograph but not Punycode.	Before Last 90 Days
Domain With Missing DMARC Record	Informational	Hygiene	Email sending domain without a DMARC record	Current
Historical Misconfigurations and Vulnerabilities in Company Infrastructure	Informational	IP Address	Servers insecurely configured as Open Proxies, Spam mail sender, or Vulnerable host detected by external scanner	Before Last 14 Days
Infections Historically Reported in Company Infrastructure	Informational	IP Address	Host of suspicious DNS names (fast flux, cluster of DDNS names), Infection reports on threat lists with higher credibility and fidelity, External honeypots reports suspicious traffic	Before Last 14 Days
Historical Possible Malware in Company Infrastructure	Informational	IP Address	Target of IP connection from Malware Sample Analysis	Before Last 42 Days
Historical High-Impact Abuse of Company Infrastructure	Informational	IP Address	Hosting Command & Control server or URL, Hosting Phishing site or URL, or Hosting Malware download site or URL	Before Last 56 Days
Recent Misconfigurations and Vulnerabilities in Company Infrastructure	Informational	IP Address	Servers insecurely configured as Open Proxies, Spam mail sender, or Vulnerable host detected by external scanner	Last 14 Days
Recent Low-Conviction Communication With C&C Server*	Informational	IP Address	Communication between an IP address belonging to the company and a potential malware command and control server (see Network Traffic Analysis) has been observed but the signal does not explicitly indicate malicious or programmatic behavior.	Last 30 Days
High Volume of Exposed Credentials	Informational	Leaked Credentials	A high volume of company email addressed (200 or more) with passwords were exposed (all-time)	All Time
Recent Exposed Credentials	Informational	Leaked Credentials	5 or more company email addresses with passwords were recently exposed	Last 90 Days
Exposed Credentials	Informational	Leaked Credentials	20 or more company email addresses with passwords were exposed (all-time)	All Time
Cyber Exploit Signal: Medium	Informational	Trend	Current Cyber Exploit Reporting trend analytic is at Medium level	Current
Company Website Using Often-Exploited Technology	Informational	Other	Company websites are running affected products of CVEs and technologies known to be exploited often.	All Time
Historically Reported by Insikt Group	Informational	Threat Research	Insikt Group has reported on this company more than 30 days ago	Before Last 28 Days
Recently Reported by Insikt Group	Informational	Threat Research	Insikt Group has reported on this company in the past 30 days	Last 28 Days

The number of total triggered risk rules in the portal does not match the number of risk rules in the article.

Some risk rules are mutually exclusive. For instance, a Cyber Exploit Signal: High and a Cyber Exploit Signal: Medium will never be displayed on a company intelligence card at the same time. As a result, the count of total risk rules triggered is the total number of risk rules that are possible to trigger at a single point in time. This support article defines all risk rules related to Third-Party Intelligence.

Support:

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