The Third-Party Risk No One Sees Coming

The Hidden Unknown of Leaks You Will Never See

Rocky the Raptor here, RPost’s cybersecurity product evangelist. In the cybersecurity world, the threats that hurt the most are the ones you never see coming - the hidden unknowns. 

I’m not talking about some virus sneaking past your endpoint antivirus. I’m talking about your third parties - your customers, suppliers, consultants, and advisors - and the fourth and Nth parties they connect to, which are completely out of your control.

These are the silent conduits through which cybercriminal cabals execute some of the most devastating breaches on record. Think mass data exfiltration like we’ve seen with Qantas Airlines or Asahi Beer, where business disruption rippled far beyond the company’s perimeter out into the digital supply chain. 

You might have the best firewalls, the smartest SOC, the tightest policies. But if a supplier’s intern clicks one link, or a consultant’s inbox gets compromised, your secrets are suddenly their open window! 

How Cybercriminals Weaponize Context

Sophisticated threat actors - the real-deal cyber gangs - don’t just steal passwords. They study conversations, using email reconnaissance to learn who’s communicating with whom, when those communications happen, and what they’re about.

That’s the context they need to stage their attacks.

With this intel, they spin up hyper-personalized, AI-crafted lures that look perfectly legitimate, convincing enough to trick anyone from your finance manager to your CEO. 

And this is how Business Email Compromise (BEC) happens. Per Gartner, BEC (those socially engineered, impersonation-induced wire fraud scams) cause losses that are 80 times greater than ransomware. 

Let that sink in. Eighty times. Ransomware gets the headlines, but BEC drains the bank accounts.

Enter RAPTOR AI: Seeing the Unseen

That’s where RPost’s RAPTOR™ AI comes in, the only platform designed to see beyond your endpoints into your third, fourth, and even Nth-party ecosystems.

RAPTOR AI uses advanced detection and AI-driven attribution to identify when cybercriminals are reconnoitering your communications. When it detects that an email originating from your organization is being opened in a compromised third-party inbox, it can kill the context before it’s weaponized. 

In simpler terms: it un-leaks the leaks. It’s not just defense; it is pre-crime detection, stopping the attack before it begins. 

That’s why Gartner recently named RPost an Innovator and Visionary for our PRE-Crime™ preemptive cybersecurity products powered by RAPTOR AI. (Read the news here.)

Now, from a cybersecurity perspective, once we explain how our RAPTOR AI cybersecurity operates in the context of today’s most sophisticated threat actor/cybercriminal exploits - building from outside one’s endpoints, inside one’s third, fourth, and Nth parties - the conversation often turns to a must-have RPost discussion. 

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