Darktrace, an AI-focused cybersecurity vendor, has unveiled Newsroom, a new system that detects and warns about critical vulnerabilities by utilizing open-source intelligence sources.

The system identifies potential threats that businesses may face by leveraging deep and AI-assisted knowledge of a customer’s external attack surface.

Darktrace claims that Newsroom provides a summary of exploits, affected software, and assets within the organization. In addition, the system provides vulnerability mitigation guidance tailored to the specific needs of businesses.

Early adoption of Newsroom has reportedly identified remote code injection flaws in Citrix Gateway/Citrix ADC, CentOS Web Panel 7 Servers, and Zoho ManageEngine products. Darktrace Newsroom is now available as part of the Darktrace PREVENT product range.

Darktrace Newsroom alleviates slow, manual vulnerability detection

In a press release, Darktrace announced the launch of its Newsroom service, which autonomously monitors threat feeds and open-source intelligence sources for new critical vulnerabilities.

The system then publishes these vulnerabilities on the Darktrace PREVENT dashboard, providing security teams with quick and easy access to potential threats.

According to Pieter Jansen, senior vice president of cyber innovation at Darktrace, Newsroom can alleviate the lengthy and labor-intensive manual processes involved in traditional vulnerability management methods.

These methods often involve regular monitoring of security news feeds and intelligence sources, which can take significant time and effort.

Newsroom’s AI-powered team monitors new sources, public news, underground news, and research communities 24/7, selecting the most critical vulnerabilities to share with security teams. This allows for a more efficient and effective start to the day for security teams.

Deep understanding of an organization’s external attack surface

Pieter Jansen, senior vice president of cyber innovation at Darktrace, explains that Newsroom’s unique ability to build a digital DNA of a customer’s external attack surface sets it apart from other vulnerability management options.

The platform uses AI and brand evidence to learn about an organization’s external attack surface without any user input, allowing it to identify new or critical attack paths that could lead to compromise.

Upon detecting a relevant vulnerability, Newsroom sends an email alert with a list of affected assets and integrates with most ticketing systems, raising tickets automatically with the appropriate teams or personnel.

In addition, the system reevaluates historic vulnerabilities for new exploitation and provides mitigation guidance that links to official patch sites and sources for remediation.

Customers can even opt-in to be notified about vulnerabilities that don’t directly affect their assets, which Jansen refers to as a “true negative.”

Newsroom “cuts through media noise” to reveal cyber risk profile

Darktrace Newsroom is a new detection and warning system for critical vulnerabilities that utilizes open-source intelligence (OSINT) sources to identify threats posed to businesses, according to Darktrace.

The platform learns what an organization is like from an outside perspective, using the brand and AI evidence to build a digital DNA of the customer.

Upon detection of a vulnerability relevant to the client, Newsroom sends an email alert with a list of affected assets and supports integration with most ticketing systems.

Newsroom also reevaluates historic vulnerabilities for new exploitation.

The system has been praised by early adopter Jim Webber, VP enterprise security and fraud management at Direct Federal Credit Union, who said that Newsroom provides clearcut insights about the impact of new vulnerabilities in a way that is timely and bespoke to his organization.

He added that instead of trawling through data logs when the next vulnerability emerges, his team can act on the insights provided by Newsroom.

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