In today’s cybersecurity landscape, the ability to predict and mitigate cyber threats before they escalate is crucial. PowerDMARC has elevated its Threat Intelligence capabilities by integrating cutting-edge predictive threat intelligence technology from Cisco Talos and SecLytics.
These powerful integrations enhance the platform’s ability to provide proactive protection against domain spoofing and other cyberattacks, ensuring that your email security remains robust and up-to-date.
Key Takeaways
Proactive Security Over Reactive Measures: Traditional threat detection systems often act only after an attack has taken place, leaving organizations exposed. PowerDMARC’s predictive threat intelligence identifies suspicious patterns and high-risk sources early, enabling you to identify spoofing attempts. This proactive approach strengthens your security posture and minimizes the risk of brand abuse or data compromise.
Advanced Threat Scoring: Each IP is assigned with a real-time risk score through SecLytics’ behavior-based analytics, enabling organizations to instantly identify and prioritize high-risk threats.
Comprehensive Blocklist Monitoring: With real-time monitoring of over 200+ global blocklists, PowerDMARC keeps track of malicious IPs and domains targeting your brand.
Predictive Insights with SecLytics: Integration with SecLytics provides deep behavioral analysis and threat predictions, giving users early warning signals based on historical and real-time data.
Enriched Context with MITRE ATT&CK Mapping: Detailed reports map threats to MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques, offering a clear understanding of how attackers operate.
Seamless SIEM Integration: PowerDMARC’s Threat Intelligence API allows direct integration with your existing security stack for centralized threat monitoring.
Enhanced Email Security Posture: With combined intelligence from Cisco Talos and SecLytics, PowerDMARC empowers organizations to stay ahead of domain spoofing, phishing, and other advanced threats.
What is Threat Intelligence, and Why Is It Essential?
Threat Intelligence refers to the collection, analysis, and application of information regarding potential or existing cyber threats. This data helps organizations understand the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of cybercriminals, providing actionable insights to defend against malicious activities.
Traditional methods of domain security, such as spam filters and blacklists, are reactive, only addressing threats after they occur. However, predictive threat intelligence and machine learning, allows organizations to anticipate and mitigate threats before they cause harm.
PowerDMARC’s Advanced Threat Intelligence Technology
PowerDMARC’s Threat Intelligence service is built to proactively detect and counter emerging cyber threats through real-time analysis and data correlation. Leveraging advanced threat detection techniques, it continuously monitors global blacklists and reputation sources to assess the risk level of IPs and sending hostnames. With seamless integration of industry-leading platforms like Cisco Talos, Fortinet, and SecLytics, PowerDMARC delivers comprehensive visibility into some of the most complex and targeted cyberattacks.
How Does PowerDMARC’s Threat Intelligence Work?
Predictive Threat Detection
PowerDMARC evaluates the risk posture of IP addresses by assigning real-time risk scores and identifying suspicious trends across global traffic. This helps organizations spot and stop threats before they escalate.Blocklist Monitoring
By scanning over Multiple DNS and IP blocklists, PowerDMARC detects whether an IP or hostname is associated with domain spoofing, phishing, or other malicious activity—providing timely alerts for rapid response.
Introducing SecLytics Integration: Predictive Threat Intelligence at Its Best
SecLytics, a leader in predictive threat intelligence, uses machine learning and advanced analytics to provide granular insights into cyber threats. This integration empowers PowerDMARC users with even more detailed intelligence, improving domain security and threat visibility.
What is SecLytics?
SecLytics is a cybersecurity company that specializes in predictive threat intelligence. Their platform identifies and mitigates cyber threats before they escalate into full-fledged attacks. By leveraging machine learning and big data analytics, SecLytics analyzes patterns, predicts attack behaviors, and provides early warnings for potential threats. This proactive approach helps organizations strengthen their security posture and stay one step ahead of cybercriminals.
SecLytics Integration: Key Features and Benefits
PowerDMARC’s integration with SecLytics provides a wealth of actionable intelligence, helping businesses detect and respond to emerging threats before they impact operations.
SecLytics Risk Evaluation Score: The risk evaluation score, ranging from 0 to 100, helps users quickly assess the severity of threats associated with any IP address. A higher score indicates a more critical threat, allowing organizations to prioritize their defense measures.
SecLytics Threat Intelligence Analysis Report: The integration provides detailed reports, offering insights into the historical performance of the IP address, including activity such as spam, malware, botnets, ransomware, and more. Each report includes the following:
Risk Level Score: The severity of the threat (low, moderate, elevated, high, or critical).
Risk Category Distribution: A breakdown of threat types reported by the IP address.
Year View: A historical breakdown of malicious activity over time, providing insights into attack patterns.
Predictions: Based on historical data, the system predicts the likelihood of future attacks from the IP address, enabling proactive measures.
MITRE ATT&CK Framework: Each SecLytics report also includes insights into the attack strategies used by malicious actors, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. This categorizes techniques and tactics used by cybercriminals, giving organizations a clear view of the methods attackers might employ.
Sample Associated Spam Emails: If available, the report includes examples of spam emails sent from the malicious IP, helping organizations recognize phishing attempts and other malicious communications.
Let’s analyse the available information in an IP Analysis Report
When you click on the button titled “view SecLytics report” under your SecLytics score, you will be immediately redirected to the detailed report for that IP address. On this pag, you will find:
Risk Level Score between 0-100
Risk Category Distribution
This section summarizes the number of days pertaining to several categories of reported malicious activities (malware, botnets, spam, proxy, backscatter, brute force, ransomware, etc) that the IP address was involved in.
Year View
This section provides a detailed annual analysis of the IP address being reported as malicious, displaying the exact dates, nature of malicious activity reported, and colors to denote the level of risk associated. This provides an extended range of historical data on the IP address to determine whether it is harmful.
Entire Period
This section provides an analysis of malicious IP activity for its entire activation period. This analysis starts from the day the IP address was first predicted/reported, to the present day.
Predictions
This section is divided into tables for CIDR, profile, category, importance, and prediction date. Here you can see the predictions on the attack category associated with the IP address, the important level (risk intensity score), and the date of prediction for this attack incident are also listed.
Threat Data
This section provides a detailed breakdown of the different categories of threats, along with the date on which the threat activity was last reported/seen. For example, you can visually identify when the IP address was reported to send the last spam email, malware, or was reported as malicious.
Reasons
This section provides more information on these cyberattacks associated with the IP address, with detailed explanations of each threat.
Sample Associated Spam Emails
This section displays the potential sending sources or email addresses used by this IP address to carry out its malicious activities. The report also provides examples of subject lines commonly used in the spam emails sent from the IP address to victims.
MITRE ATT&CK
This section highlights the MITRE techniques and tactics linked to the IP address. The MITRE ATT&CK framework categorizes how attackers achieve their goals. Tactics represent the attacker’s overarching objectives, while Techniques describe the specific methods they use to accomplish those objectives. By examining these, you can quickly grasp the attack strategies associated with this IP address and the goals behind them.
Conclusion: Stay One Step Ahead with PowerDMARC’s Predictive Threat Intelligence
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, being proactive is essential to defending against increasingly sophisticated threats. PowerDMARC’s integration with Cisco Talos and SecLytics delivers advanced predictive threat intelligence that enables you to detect and respond to spoofing and abuse attempts before they cause harm.
With features like real-time risk scoring, blocklist monitoring, and detailed behavioral insights, PowerDMARC empowers your organization to take decisive action against domain-based attacks. These combined technologies offer a comprehensive and dynamic approach to threat detection, giving you full visibility into malicious activity targeting your domain.
Don't wait for an attack to happen—take proactive steps to protect your domain today. Contact us to speak with a domain security expert or start a free trial to explore all the powerful features PowerDMARC has to offer!