Pre-Breach Services
Fortify your cyber defenses with pre-breach assessment services
Our array of services
There are a number of pre-breach services or assessments available to help fortify your security posture and improve your insurability.
For example, Trend offers several assessments that include:
- Cloud security posture assessment
- External attack surface assessment
- Microsoft/Gmail assessment
- At-risk endpoint assessment
- Phishing simulation
- Vulnerability assessment
- Red Team engagements
- Purple Team engagements (Trend customers only)
If you don't know where to start, consultants or a breach coach (lawyer who specializes in cybersecurity law) can help guide your organization on what assessments or services are best for your industry and organization size. They’ll determine which areas of concern should be addressed first, and in most cases, offer recommendations on vendors for security gaps.
Red teaming
Red teaming exercises are a proactive security risk assessment service that organizations can take advantage to strengthen their cybersecurity posture. The goal is to find vulnerabilities and weaknesses and provide recommendations for improvement.
The benefits of conducting this type of service include:
- Exposing hidden security flaws
- Testing incident response plans already in place
- Boosting security awareness among employees
- Honing detection and reaction skills
- Getting a comprehensive evaluation of security health
- Meeting regulatory demands for security testing in industries like finance and healthcare
- Proactively adapting defenses as threats evolve
- Encouraging continuous improvement
- Improving organizational coordination
- Validating investments in security measures
Conducting an annual red teaming exercise allows organizations to assess the effectiveness of their investments in security measures. It provides a tangible way to measure the return on investment and adjust security strategies accordingly.
Purple teaming
Similarly, purple teaming is a collaborative approach in cybersecurity exercises that brings together the offensive strategies from red teams with the defensive tactics of blue teams, hence the name. The goal is to enhance security posture through one lengthy, continuous feedback loop.
The knowledge sharing between attackers (red team) and defenders (blue team), allows for real-time adjustment and defense strengthening based on attack techniques. Purple teaming helps organizations improve their understanding of vulnerabilities and defense mechanisms. In turn, that leads to more effective security measures and steady, continuous improvement in other cybersecurity practices.
Cyber risk assessment
Cyber risk assessments are vital to any organization’s cyber security health and posture. They’re essential to helping you safeguard your organizational assets, reputation and operations. Conducting cyber risk assessments on a regular basis enables you to:
- Identify weak or vulnerable areas of your security environment, processes or people
- Provide critical information to secure further resources to address high-impact findings
- Stay ahead of potential threats
- Ensure regulatory compliance
- Protect sensitive information
- Prioritize resources more effectively
- Decrease operational downtime
Risk assessments provide the insight and intelligence to up-level your security processes and safeguards, while strengthening your firm's overall readiness and cyber resilience.
Other services
Additional pre-breach services include:
- Penetration testing
- Tabletop exercises
- Compromise assessment
- Third party risk assessment
- Incident response readiness assessment
- OT network risk assessment
- Managed backup resilience assessment
Fortify your cyber defenses with pre-breach assessment services