Corporate Excellence Awards 2020

Celebrating Cybersecurity Success! Phishing attacks are responsible for 46% of corporate network compromises. Playing on emotional reactions, it’s easy to blame employees for reacting naturally to a challenging situation. Cofense present a better way to stop this sort of attack. Recognised in Corporate Vision’s continuing series of Corporate Excellence awards, achieving Excellence in Phishing Prevention, 2020 – Cybersecurity, we turn our attention to this firm to see just how they do it. Phishing attacks have an extraordinary amount of impact on businesses and their employees. Purporting to be authentic, these attacks pray on emotions such as fear and shame. In the light of a major disaster, such as COVID-19, phishing emails follow. Spreading far and fast, the result can be devastating to companies and organizations. At Cofense, the principle is that users are not the weak link, rather they are the line of defence that ensures no harm comes to a system. While phishing emails can bypass perimeter technology and sail through secure gateways, reports of a phish by a user can make all of the difference. To this end, the Cofense defence covers four different aspects in its approach, those of awareness, detection, response and intelligence. Each has its own different program and systems to support users. Awareness is covered by Cofense PhishMe, educating and conditioning users to be resilient against phishing. Cofense Reporter and Cofense Triage form the ability to detect, with the programs able to respond to threats in real time, with the ability to analyse and respond to any danger. With the right response being so important, it is possible to place this responsibility in the hands of Cofense experts. Providing support from alert to resolution, this team makes all the difference in an emergency situation. With phishing being one of the most dynamic threats, changing effortlessly to suit different environments, the Cofense team make use of Cofense Intelligence to gather more information in order to make swifter and better judgement calls on behalf of businesses. Instead of reacting to a situation, this approach is a thoroughly proactive one that means Cofense clients remain one step ahead of the scammers. It’s easy to criticize those who fall victim to a phishing scam, but assistance from organizations like Cofense avoid these problems happening in the first place. It’s a forward-thinking attitude that has led the team to enviable success. Company: Cofense Contact: Kevin Fliess Dec19361 Issue 4 2020 45 With phishing being one of the most dynamic threats, changing effortlessly to suit different environments, the Cofense team make use of Cofense Intelligence to gather more information in order to make swifter and better judgement calls on behalf of businesses. Instead of reacting to a situation, this approach is a thoroughly proactive one that means Cofense clients remain one step ahead of the scammers. Jan20068 Creating New Rules BreachLock is at the forefront of cyber-security technology. We speak to Seemant Sehgal about the firm as it is awarded the title of 2020’s Most Promising Security Testing Solutions Provider. USA-based BreachLock offers a unique SaaS platform delivering on- demand, continuous and scalable security testing suitable for modern cloud and DevOps powered businesses. The BreachLock platform leverages both human-powered penetration testing and AI-powered automated scans to create a powerful and easy to use solution that delivers continuous and on-demand vulnerability management. BreachLocks’s modern SaaS-based approach redefines the old school and time-consuming pen test model into fast and comprehensive security as service. As a result, CIO’s and CISO’s get a single pane view into their application and network security posture. The BreachLock platform facilitates collaboration between your DevOps and BreachLock security researchers empowering them to fix security gaps at the speed of business. Founder and CEO, Seemant Sehgal, tells us more about the firm’s objectives. “BreachLock is on a mission to ensure all SaaS businesses have access to Affordable, Smarter and Scalable Cyber Security Testing,” he explains. “This is the only way we can help secure both consumers and businesses and eventually our human society. Since our inception, we have focused on the SaaS market as our target audience. As most of our clients are from B2B SaaS space they like the fact that BreachLock offers its services in SaaS format.” The company enables the clients to request and consume a comprehensive penetration test with a few clicks. It has a unique approach that aligns the industry’s best practices that utilise manual as well as automated vulnerability discovery methods. Seemant embellishes on how the system actually works and what that means for the end user. “We execute in-depth manual penetration testing and provide you with both offline and online reports. We retest your fixes and certify you for executing a Penetration Test. This is followed up with monthly automated scanning delivered via our platform. Throughout this process, you have access to our SaaS and our security experts for any support needed to find, fix, and prevent your next cyber breach.” BreachLock has been climbing the stairs of success and, in a short period of time, has become the prominent player in the vulnerability management market. Keeping the success rate constant and delivering the best quality services, BreachLock is focused on strengthening and innovating AI and ML capabilities. “It’s much more than a job here at BreachLock,” enthuses Seemant. “We believe hacking is a ‘mindset,’ not a skill set. We hack, research, and build solutions that push human hackers to find new ways to break and secure technology. We feed “AI” and don’t fear it. We coach, train, and learn from each other. We reward the worthy and respect the right attitude over a shiny resume. These are a few attributes that summarise BreachLock culture. This also helps us attract and retain the right talent. “This might be a game-changer and will revolutionize how people look at cyber resilience today. Ultimately, we aim to enable businesses to test their cyber resilience in a faster, scalable, and more affordable way in 2020 so that these businesses can keep their data safe.” Contact: S.Sehgal Company: BreachLock Inc. Address: 276 5th Avenue, Suite 704 – 3031, New York NY 10001 Telephone: +1 917-779-0009 Web Address: www.breachlock.com “We execute in-depth manual penetration testing and provide you with both offline and online reports. We retest your fixes and certify you for executing a Penetration Test. This is followed up with monthly automated scanning delivered via our platform. Throughout this process, you have access to our SaaS and our security experts for any support needed to find, fix, and prevent your next cyber breach.” Corporate Excellence Awards 181