KnightGuard for Operationalising Threat Intel

Description

Reduce Incident response time significantly by enabling faster detection, prioritization, and mitigation of threats based on real-world adversary behavior

Operationalising threat intelligence is the process of transforming raw or strategic threat intelligence into actionable insights that can improve efficiencies across detection engineering, security controls, incident response, and threat modeling. It helps capitalizing Threat Intelligence services to reduce TCO and bridges the gap between intelligence production and security operations. Organizations without operational threat intelligence rely heavily on generic IOCs and automated feeds, leading to alert fatigue, poor prioritization, and reactive defenses.

Threat-Informed Defense (TID), pioneered by the MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense, is a key methodology that uses adversary behavior (e.g., from MITRE ATT&CK) to shape defenses proactively which benefit security operations teams move from reactive to proactive security.

KnightGuard helps CTI and SecOps teams finding answers to the following key questions:

1. What Threats are relevant to my organisation (Threat Discovery)
2. Where should the team focus to have maximum impact (Threat Prioritization)
3. Do I have the right set of controls in place to stop the threat from materialising. (Threat Mitigation)
4. What controls should I prioritize to fix and how can I track the progress. (Resource Mobilization)
5. How can I Detect and Hunt for the Threats (Threat Detection and Hunting)
6. How does performing all of the above lead to a positive impact on my organisation’s Risk Profile. 

KnightGuard is a Threat Intel agnostic platform, which means that organisations can bring threat intel from various sources and track them centrally in the platform and aligns to various Industry standard frameworks for Threat Intel Prioritization. In addition, KnightGuard provides a propreitary mechanism to curate a pre-defined list of Prioritized Techniques aligned to organisation’s current security landscape. This helps organisation’s understand where the security team should focus their efforts in order to have maximum impact on Risk Mitigation. 

KnightGuards’ Fine Tuned AI-enabled Data Ingestion pipeline helps organisations bring in unstructured Threat Intel into the platform and quickly turn it into actionable Threat Intel. 

Once Threats are prioritized, KnightGuard platform automatically finds the Top ATT&CK Choke points and assign priorities to these Top ATT&CK Choke points so the team knows what needs to be mitigated first. 

To build a robust preemptive cyber defense, simply prioritizing threats and Attack Techniques is not enough. The key is to enable Security Operations and IT Operations team to action on prioritizations and effectively mitigate the threats. KnightGuard, providing Security Operations Teams, including Detection Engineering and Hunt Teams, ready to deploy, SIEM agnostic, Detection Analytics. KnightGuard’s RED and BLUE Team AI Agent helps Security Operatiosn team quickly generate Detection Analytics in any SIEM format(KQL,_____, _____, ____) . This helps Security and Detection Engineering team significantly reduce MTTD and MTTR. 

The Security Team can easily visulase the status of Detection against each technique on a detailed Prioritized MITRE ATT&CK Dashboard. 

Knightguard also provides IT Operations team with a prioritized list of security controls that should be in place in order to mitigate the threat. KnightGuard’s IT Ops AI Agent automatically generates a security tool specific Playbook to quickly implement the Security Control. 

“KnightGuard not only provide insight into the existing Threat Informed Risk, but also visualise step-by-step guidance to improve the risk score through its centralised and customisable Risk Dashboard”

WHY IT MATTERS

Most organizations collect threat intelligence but struggle to apply it effectively. Without operationalisation, intel remains siloed and underutilized. Threat Intel Operationalisation coupled with Threat-Informed Defense approach provides a structured framework to translate threat insights into defensive actions, closing detection gaps and improving resilience.

KEY BENEFITS

• Capitalizing Threat Intelligence Services to reduce TCO
• Bridge the gap between Intelligence Production and Security Operations
• Improve Cyber Resiliency by conducting proactive RED and BLUE teaming exercises using relevant threat actor emulations. 
• Enhanced detection logic based on real-world adversary TTPs
• Improved prioritization of vulnerabilities
• Stronger collaboration between CTI, SOC, and Engineering teams

KEY CAPABILITIES

Bring all your Threat Intel from different sources into a Centralised Platform using AI Enabled Data Ingestion Pipeline

KnightGuard is a Threat Intel agnostic platform. 

KnightGuards’ Fine Tuned AI-enabled Data Ingestion pipeline helps organisations bring in unstructured Threat Intel from various sources into the platform and quickly turn it into actionable Threat Intel

Seamless Purple Teaming 

KnightGuard Platform provides ready to test and deploy Threat Scenario Templates for various relevant Use Cases. Teams can simply filter and chose the Threat Scenarios most relevant to them and then convert it into Organisation specific Campaigns with a single click of a button. 

KnightGuard automatically generates relevant Detection Analytics in organisation’s preferred SIEM format. This can be quickly tested right from within the platform without ever logging into the SIEM. 

RED and BLUE Teams can emulate and detect threat scenarios simultaneously which significantly speeds up the overall time to proactively defend against relevant Threats.

KnightGuard also provides AI-Enabled Detection and Hunt Analytics generation based on context. This helps Security Team significantly speed up their Detection Analytics capabilties with a small team. 

PRIORITIZE CONTROLS AND MEASURE CONTROL EFFECTIVENESS 

KnightGuard Platform automatically maps MITRE ATT&CK to various mitigation and controls framework including NIST 800-53, MITRE DEFEND, MITRE Mitigation and many more.

KnightGuard systematically divide the security control into actionable statements and sub-statements that can be assigned to organisation’s Ticketing System or within KnightGuard’s in-built Ticketing System. 

For each actionable statement, KnightGuard provides AI-Enabled playbooks for quickly and efficiently implement the prioritized mitigation, significantly reducing the MTTD and MTTR.