On the internet where people are connected, security breaches happen almost every time. From websites to yet another targeted campaign, they are all targets to hackers.
With both new and existing threats always lurking to compromise any unsuspecting targets, staying up-to-date to the everchanging digital world is a lot for cybersecurity professionals.
This is the reason why Intel Security Group, or previously known as McAfee, has released the "Threat Landscape Dashboard."
The dashboard is essentially a place that packs information about threats and security "based on the prevalence of attacks that exploit those vulnerabilities."
The dashboard doesn’t only show the top ten threats in different categories, but it also relate vulnerabilities issues and other campaigns that are spreading them. Intel also puts a Risk Score and Media Score for each threat to make it easier for users understand, aiding system security administrators to know which one to focus first.
Threat Landscape Dashboard is a free online resource, built from nine months work.
"We want to assist security practitioners when they make decisions about which vulnerabilities should be patched first, based on the prevalence of attacks that exploit those vulnerabilities," said Intel in its blog post.
The Threat Landscape Dashboard uses vulnerabilities as its pivot point. For example, the RIG exploit kit takes advantage of vulnerabilities that are used to spread certain ransomware families. Further, some of these vulnerabilities are also seen in targeted campaigns.
It also monitors and process information from social media feeds. The dashboard then calculates a score for the press attention received by the specific threat or campaign.
For each threat's detail page, Intel provides reference links to more information about the thread, like from blogs or whitepapers.
Supporting RSS where users can import the feeds, with Threat Landscape Dashboard, Intel wants people, especially those that are responsible in securing systems, to keep up with the malware trend.