Use cases for Argos
Argos is a versatile platform that can be of great help not only to professional red teams. It can also fully exploit its strengths in the areas of DevOps or bug bounty hunting.
Asset Monitoring
Argos is capable of continuously searching for your company's external assets. We not only use well-known API providers such as Netlas or SecurityTrails, but also collect our own data by scanning more than 120,000,000 cloud assets multiple times daily. To obtain the most complete picture of the entire attack surface, Argos proactively examines discovered resources (such as JavaScript files and similar). External sources such as the dark web or source code archives like github.com are also used to find assets. Furthermore, Argos has several proprietary functions that further optimize the discovery of valid assets.
An External IT Security Team
Many companies do not have IT security specialists and/or cannot recruit specialists. The DSecured team can take on this task very efficiently and continuously search for and identify problems, as well as handle all relevant aspects of IT security. Throughout the contract period, we are available to provide you with non-stop advisory support.
No "False Positives"
Unfortunately, there is no software that has a 0% "false positive" rate. Especially in IT security, there are findings that cannot simply be assessed and must be placed in the current context. Therefore, any unclear notification from Argos goes to the DSecured team. We verify whether the information is relevant and whether it could potentially be exploited in a malicious manner.
Prevention of Leaks
Argos actively searches the company's assets for potential leaks of credentials, general data, as well as source code. Additionally, it monitors platforms such as github.com and immediately reports information that can be linked to a customer to the platform user. Through special access to assets, specific ports or paths, Argos is able to provoke errors, which in turn can leak important information.
Basic Security/IT Hygiene
Argos can search for problems and security vulnerabilities multiple times a day. In a very short time, you can see which assets may have serious problems, which assets have long been obsolete, and which assets have unexpected ports open. This provides a good foundation for reducing the number of assets - the fewer assets that need to be monitored and protected, the lower the chance of being hacked.
Bug Bounty Programs
Bug bounty programs have proven to be an excellent extension to the classic penetration test. However, starting such a program without accurate preparation is not a good idea - your budget would quickly be consumed by rather unimportant findings, and the triage team would soon be overwhelmed. Since Argos is modeled after a real bug bounty hunter, it is perfectly suited to "clean up" in advance and ensure that ethical hackers focus primarily on critical security vulnerabilities.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Before acquiring a company, it is always worthwhile to check how the external attack surface is structured and whether this could potentially create problems for you as the buyer. No one wants to integrate broken and obsolete assets into their own network. Save yourself these problems and let Argos check the level of technical debt and legacy issues. Additionally, Argos offers a solid tool for monitoring the integration of new assets into your existing IT infrastructure.
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