The Problem

Cyber attacks are carried out against corporations every day by a wide range of actors for a variety of purposes. Financial motivation is a common factor but increasingly corporations are facing adversaries not motivated solely by money.

Threats to corporations come not just from remote locations on the Internet, they often originate from within. Insiders are stealing intellectual property to sell on the black market; well-funded criminal organizations are stealing customer data to hijack their cash and credit; and increasingly foreign governments with virtually unlimited resources are acquiring sensitive dual-use technology to modernize their defense industrial base.

Operating a business in today’s world with an ever-changing vulnerability landscape requires a new paradigm and thus a new kind of company.

The Solution

Vulnerability Research Labs' information security products and services are influenced by Sun Tzu’s philosophy:

"Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril."

In order to defend against a threat you must first be able to assess your adversary's motivations, intentions and true capabilities. VRL's unique knowledge of the Cyber Armament stockpiles of foreign adversaries as well as the distinguishing characteristics of their tradecraft places VRL in a class by itself.

Learn more about our services:

  • Cyber Threat Intelligence
  • Cyber Risk Management

Cyber Threat Intelligence

Vulnerability Research Labs maintains comprehensive cyber threat intelligence data on a wide range of actors. The firm is active in monitoring the attack trends of highly sophisticated individuals, organized crime elements, and numerous nation states. This information is a vital aspect of VRL’s knowledge superiority doctrine that permeates into customer solutions.

Malware Analysis
By studying samples of captured malware Vulnerability Research Labs can attempt to determine its intended purpose, its author's relative sophistication, country of origin, and relationship to other previously quarantined code.

Software/Hardware vulnerability research
Vulnerability Research Labs is actively involved in discovering critical vulnerabilities in software and hardware products as an ongoing part of its internal research & development efforts. VRL has teams studying next generation "hacker" tools to discover novel ways to detect their use. The results of this research are shared with customers who have made a commitment to support the firm's long-term research and development initiatives.

Cyber Risk Management

Vulnerability Research Labs' unique insight into the Cyber Armament stockpiles of foreign adversaries as well as the distinguishing characteristics of their tradecraft places VRL in a distinguished position to help assess cyber risk. The firm has experience in dealing with all forms of cyber threats, ranging from insiders stealing intellectual property to nation states with virtually unlimited budgets conducting industrial espionage.

Vulnerability Research Labs is repeatedly asked to assist Fortune 50 firms, large multi-nationals, financial institutions, and high-net worth individuals to evaluate their exposure to select types of cyber threats.

Typical offerings include:

  • Vulnerability assessment
  • Insider threat detection / countermeasures
  • Intellectual property theft mitigation
  • Industrial espionage detection / countermeasures