Advanced Persistent Threat Scanner (APT Scanner)

It’s only natural to wonder if your company has ever been attacked and whether your protective measures are truly effective. Why not find out?
At SECUINFRA, we are passionate about detecting attacks and helping our clients fight them. With this in mind, we’ve collaborated with Nextron Systems GmbH to develop a solution that’s designed to help you to achieve this. After all, advanced persistent threats, as they’re known, can go undetected for a long time and cause major damage.

Be safe, not sorry, and detect compromised systems in your infrastructure before serious damage occurs.

Why SECUINFRA

DAMAGE MINIMIZATION

Prevent major damage by detecting compromised systems at an early stage. SECUINFRA cyber defense experts have been searching for and finding compromised systems on a daily basis since 2010 and can help minimize damage.

RELIABILITY

Play it safe and let our SECUINFRA cyber defense experts regularly scan your most critical systems for indicators of compromise (IOCs). We can reliably find compromised systems in your infrastructure.

EFFICIENCY

APT scanners are by far the most reliable and efficient technology for detecting compromised IT systems. Increase your cyber resilience through the reliability of APT scanners and cut costs due to the technology’s efficiency.

How an APT scanner works

How does an APT scanner detect cyber attacks?

Unlike conventional antivirus software, an APT scanner doesn’t look for fragments of malicious code, but for traces of an attack – indicators of compromise (IOCs) – like in a forensic examination.

To do this, the APT scanner uses a set of rules containing the IOCs.

This set of rules is applied to various artifacts in a system (files, folder structures, running processes, RAM content, log data, etc.) to look for traces of previous and ongoing cyber attacks.

Thanks to international cooperation in the cyber defense community, new cyber attacks are constantly being analyzed. The IOCs then derived are saved as new rules in the APT scanner.

This ensures that an APT scanner becomes ever more precise over time and, unlike conventional antivirus software, has an extremely high detection rate for compromised systems.

During a cyber attack, attackers or an APT group use various tools and techniques to achieve their goals. They inevitably leave detectable traces in the compromised systems. While smart attackers can cover their tracks to some degree, they can’t remove absolutely all traces of their presence!

Indicators of compromise (IOCs) can be derived by analyzing compromised IT systems and collecting evidence.

These IOCs are added to the set of rules for the APT scanner and are used in future scans.

The APT scanner can very efficiently detect attackers using similar tools and techniques and, in doing so, substantially speed up the complex forensic investigation.

Typical uses of an APT scanner

CA

Compromise Assessment

The APT scanner is the core component of our Compromise Assessment service. By professionally analyzing the scan results from the APT scanner, our cyber defense experts can efficiently and reliably detect compromised IT systems in your infrastructure.
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DF

Digital Forensics

In the area of digital forensics, our cyber defense experts use APT scanners to quickly gain an initial overview of the scale of a cyber attack. Initial conclusions can also be drawn as to the course of events. Both are absolutely essential to getting a full and clear picture of an external cyber attack or internal misconduct.
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IR

Incident Response

The main aim with incident response is to recover IT operations in the fastest time possible. Thanks to the APT scanner, our cyber defense experts can respond with exactly the speed that’s needed and very quickly gain an overview of the scale of a cyber attack at the beginning of their assignment.
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