About

Attack Solutions, Inc.

Attack Solutions, Inc. (ASI) is an innovative provider of cybersecurity services with a global network of security experts and a rapid response team specialized in the prevention, detection, neutralization, and adaptation of cyberthreats. ASI has amassed a professional network of security practitioners with domain expertise to effectively deal with the basic to the most challenging cyberthreat types. We perform real time analytics on global cybersecurity activities observing and discovering attack trends, and applying that intelligence to evolve and adapt potent solutions to neutralize newer attack types.

ASI Evolving Cybersecurity Practices

Cybersecurity is the practice applied to protect computer networks, programs, data, and devices from damage or unauthorized access by malicious actors. ASI traditionally concentrated its cyber efforts on Information Security to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data. As computing proliferated down to smaller devices such as phones and specialized controllers, and up towards enterprise systems and global cloud environments, the demand to secure corporate computing assets mushroomed into cybersecurity. ASI observed this trend and evolved its Information Security offerings to an all encompassing cybersecurity practice.

Cyberattacks Increasing Variety and Volume

ASI now serves corporate entities that increasingly expect more from their security staff and cyber vendors to effectively deal with the onslaught of cybercriminals. The volume of cyberattacks are growing exponentially, the variety of threat types are continually evolving, solutions provided by cyber vendors have an effective window of six months or less, as a consequence the tasks to protect networks consisting of thousands of endpoints scattered globally are challenging and in extreme cases insurmountable. ASI is organized to rapidly recognize and accommodate the dynamics of the cybersecurity industry, making us well equipped to confront the cyber challenges imposed on our client base.

Cybersecurity Market Growth and Increasing Sophistication

The most recent surveys suggest that the cyber security market is growing at an accelerated pace and is expected to reach $250 billion by 2023. This dramatic growth is influenced by technology advancements and trends such as the Internet of Things, Cloud Applications, Mobile Data availability and price reduction, the increasing sophistication of automated cyberattack tools, and the reducing cost and simplicity to launch cyberattacks. ASI has expanded its security staff and cyber infrastructure to match the current and forecasted growth in the cyber market, and is an active participant and influencer with regulatory agencies and institutions that enact policies affecting cybersecurity growth and adoption.

Global Threat Map

Cyberthreat Types

In 2012 the most common cybersecurity threat types were: 1) Social Engineered Trojans, 2) Unpatched Software (such as Java, Adobe Reader, Flash), 3) Phishing, 4) Network traveling worms, and 5) Advanced Persistent Threats. In 2018 the common cyber threat types have proliferated to over twenty including: 1) Advanced Persistent Threats, 2) Phishing, 3) Trojans, 4) Botnets, 5) Ransomware, 6) Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS), 7) Wiper Attacks, 8) Intellectual Property Theft, 9) Theft of Money, 10) Data Manipulation, 11) Data Destruction, 12) Spyware / Malware, 13) Man in the Middle (MITM), 14) Drive-By Downloads, 15) Malvertising, 16) Rogue Software, 17) Unpatched Software, 18) Keyloggers, 19) Rootkits, 20) Bootkits, and others. ASI cybersecurity practice has evolved in step with the dynamics of the industry and is presently based on a model of continuous change and adaptation ensuring that we remain abreast with the most current tactics of cybercriminals.

Cybersecurity Frameworks

NIST's Cybersecurity Framework is the most prevalent among the guides applied to direct a cybersecurity practice. There are other similar regulatory and institutional frameworks including PCI DSS, ISO 27001/2, and TY CYBER. Some countries have devised their own guides, and vendors such as IBM and Cisco have established proprietary flavors intended to differentiate themselves. ASI have had a longstanding relationship with NIST and participates in events at the Computer Security Resource Center (NIST CSRC). ASI has therefore embraced the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as one of the many instruments applied in its cyber practice.

Knowledgebase of Cybersecurity Solutions

Cybercriminals have proven to be very innovative and enterprising, uncovering more and more technology vulnerabilities and creatively constructing newer cyberthreat types. This imposes greater pressure on businesses and vendors to develop and implement newer cyber defense solutions. This is a vicious cycle where each group (cyber defenders and cybercriminals) work continuously to outdo each other. ASI tracks this battle closely and continuously monitors cyberattacks successes and failures, the end result is a cybersecurity knowledgebase of solutions classified according to the threats they neutralize. This knowledgebase of cyber defense solutions enables ASI to quickly identify remedies and processes that can be effective at neutralizing present threats.

Professional Network of Cybersecurity Practitioners and Vendors

ASI has discovered that it is not practical for a single cybersecurity integrator or cybersecurity vendor to have all the remedies to defend against all possible cyberthreats. Cyberthreats and cyberattacks are very diverse, even within the same threat type the defending or neutralizing solutions can vary. To effectively deal with the diversity and mutation of threat types, ASI has formal working relationships with expert cyber practitioners (sometimes ethical hackers) and specialty cyber vendors. When present with newer and more challenging cybersecurity requirements, ASI interrogates its knowledgebase and if the situation have already been experienced, then the remediation may be academic. If the circumstances of an attack or the characteristics of a threat variation impose unanticipated complexities, ASI may elicit the participation of known cyber experts, within our professional network, that have neutralized similar threats or that possess the technical savvy which can result in rapid remediation.