In today's fast-paced digital world, staying on top of potential threats and vulnerabilities is more crucial than ever. One of the key tools that organizations use to protect their digital environments is Action-ready alerts. These real-time alerts help businesses quickly identify and address issues, enabling them to act fast and effectively.
However, as organizations scale, managing the vast number of assets they handle can become overwhelming. Manually inputting assets into an alerting system that is integrated with real-time cyber threat intelligence and continuously identifies, maps, and categorizes all externally exposed assets on an organization's network is simply not feasible for large businesses, particularly those using specialized asset management platforms. This is where integrating asset management systems with alerting platforms becomes essential.
The Problem: Asset Overload
The core challenge lies in the fact that Action-ready alerts rely on accurate and up-to-date asset information. These assets, ranging from domain names to third-party vendors, are the foundation for generating meaningful alerts. For large organizations with vast amounts of assets, the process of manually entering this data is not only time-consuming but also prone to human error.
Recognizing this challenge, an integration was developed to simplify the process by offering a seamless way to automatically populate assets into the alerting system, directly from the existing asset management platforms.
Supported Assets and Platforms
Key Assets:
- Domain Names
- IP Addresses
- Products
- Organization
- Executives
- Third Parties
- CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures)
The goal was clear: to provide users with a smooth experience that allows them to effortlessly connect their asset management platforms with the alerting system.
The Asset Management Platforms that are Integrated With
- Cortex Xpanse
- Wiz
- Armis
- Axonius
- Censys
- Cyberpion
These platforms already provide valuable insights into an organization's digital assets and attack surfaces. By integrating them with the alerting system, we’re reducing manual effort and simplifying the process of keeping asset data up to date.
The Approach: Automating Asset Integration
To make the integration as seamless as possible, we followed several key steps:
1. Mapping Assets
The first step was mapping the assets supported by each of the selected asset management platforms to the asset types accepted by the alerting platform. We had to understand each platform’s terminology and data format to ensure compatibility and proper data processing.
2. API Integration
While the alerting platform already offers an API for manual asset addition, we knew that automating this process was essential for large organizations. We developed an integration to allow asset data to flow directly from asset management platforms into the alerting system.
3. Building the Python Script
To facilitate the automation, we wrote a Python script that performs several tasks:
- Connecting to Asset Management Platforms: The script first establishes a connection with the selected platform's API.
- Pulling Asset Data: It retrieves asset data such as domain names, IP addresses, products, and more.
- Filtering and Processing the Data: The script processes and filters the raw data to ensure it aligns with the alerting platform's requirements.
- Sending Data to Alerting Platform: Finally, the script sends the processed asset data to the alerting platform's database, where it can be used to generate real-time alerts.
4. Seamless Data Flow
Once the integration is complete, the process becomes fully automated. Customers no longer need to manually input asset data. With just a few clicks, they can connect their asset management platform, and the alerting system will take care of the rest.
The Results: A Streamlined Onboarding Experience
This approach not only ensures accurate and up-to-date asset data but also dramatically reduces the time and effort required from the customer. The seamless integration with major asset management platforms allows organizations to instantly populate assets into the alerting system, enabling them to receive Action-ready alerts without delays or errors from manual entry.
Furthermore, this integration scales efficiently, processing large numbers of assets without requiring manual intervention.
About Loginsoft
For over 20 years, leading companies in Telecom, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Banking, New Media, and more have come to rely on Loginsoft as a trusted resource for technology talent. From startups, to product and enterprises rely on our services. Whether Onsite, Offsite, or Offshore, we deliver. With a track record of successful partnerships with leading technology companies globally, and specifically in the past 6 years with Cybersecurity product companies, Loginsoft offers a comprehensive range of security offerings, including Software Supply Chain, Vulnerability Management, Threat Intelligence, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity Platform Integrations, creating content packs for Cloud SIEM, Logs onboarding and more. Our commitment to innovation and expertise has positioned us as a trusted player in the cybersecurity space. Loginsoft continues to provide traditional IT services which include Software development & Support, QA automation, Data Science & AI, etc.
Expertise in Integrations with Threat Intelligence and Security Products: Built more than 250+ integrations with leading TIP, SIEM, SOAR, and Ticketing Platforms such as Cortex XSOAR, Anomali, ThreatQ, Splunk, IBM QRadar & Resilient, Microsoft Azure Sentinel, ServiceNow, Swimlane, Siemplify, MISP, Maltego, Cryptocurrency Digital Exchange Platforms, CISCO, Datadog, Symantec, Carbonblack, F5, Fortinet, and so on. Loginsoft is a partner with industry leading technology vendors Palo Alto, Splunk, Elastic, IBM Security, etc.
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