Cybersecurity solutions that inspired the need for Cyber Crucible
Cybersecurity vendors sometimes combine their Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools with Network Detection and Response (NDR) to create an Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solution. Regardless of setup, these solutions’ limited ability to prevent attacks require a blended managed detection response (MDR) services offering along with their primary software offering, in an to attempt to ease the pain of recovering from successful attacks.
In most cases, security analysts are combing through multiple customers’ event logs, looking for common patterns among the customers with a cyberattack in progress. Once enough attacks with the same patterns appear, analysts task the security tools to begin blocking that attack.Cybercriminals now use Robotic Process Automation to automatically create different patterns for every attack. Because of this, analysts can’t find strong patterns between cyberattacks. Now, all they have is a list of victims.
EDR and XDR are broken
Essentially, in the current state, EDR and XDR tools are remedial, sometimes only alerting organizations that use them only after core assets have already been encrypted. In many cases, employees and customers are first to notify IT and security teams. In the hands of cybercriminals, Robotic Process Automation can distribute custom-configured malware simultaneously across dozens of accounts and machines in complex cyberattacks that previously would have taken a highly skilled hacker weeks.
Left of Boom
CyberCrucible is new innovation that delivers true “left of boom” preventative attack defense.
Our patented, fully automated software suspends ransomware, data theft, and identity theft attempts without human or cloud analytic dependencies. In other word, Cyber Crucible is not cloud dependent nor does it require security teams staffed with people.
Cyber Crucible effectively suspends attacks in less than 200 milliseconds and immediately alerts SOC teams that attacks have been stopped. Regardless of the type of malware or how attacks find their way to data, Cyber Crucible simply sees them as a rogue process attempting an action—and very quickly suspends that process. Cyber Crucible has repeatedly discovered, analyzed, and defeated waves of zero day attacks to the great benefit to our clients and partners.
What makes Cyber Crucible Different?
Cyber Crucible avoids using backup-based simulations as a form of preventive defense:
✓ Genetic Algorithm & Reinforced Learning Artificial Intelligence
✓ Autonomous “No Humans Needed” Detection & Response Agents
✓ 100% Effective Without Network Access to Cyber Crucible Servers
✓ No Pre-existing knowledge of hackers needed
✓ No Signatures or “Secret Configurations That Are Really Signatures”
✓ No Learning Period
✓ No User Downtime
✓ No Monitoring of Alerts or False Positives
✓ No backups, secret backups, or triple secret backups
Why avoiding shadow copies and "secret" backups is a good thing
1. Space and Efficiency: Backups stored directly on the device, like shadow copies or hidden backups, consume valuable hard drive space. To be effective, these backups ideally require a full 1:1 copy, but in most cases, that’s impractical. Partial backups rely on quickly detecting and stopping ransomware before any unprotected files are encrypted, which often involves fragile methods, such as recognizing specific file extensions (e.g., myphoto.jpg.encrypted).
2. Vulnerability to Attack: Attackers routinely disable or delete on-device backups like shadow copies, leaving no local defense.
3. Risk to Cloud-Connected Backups: Cloud-based backups (e.g., OneDrive or similar services) that have live access from infected devices are equally vulnerable; attackers can access these backups through open API calls on the compromised device, deleting or encrypting them as part of the attack.
4. Limitations of “Offline” Backups: Although “offline” backups are a step up, as they often copy data to a less accessible medium, they still face significant risks. Attackers now exploit admin and management portals for backup tools through credential harvesting or session hijacking, enabling them to control or erase backup data. Attackers have also developed methods to silently encrypt backup data in transit (e.g., man-in-the-middle attacks), leaving organizations unaware until they attempt to recover data, only to find it encrypted for weeks.
This is why Cyber Crucible takes a different approach, avoiding the inherent vulnerabilities of traditional backups to ensure a more reliable defense against ransomware.
Cybersecurity that’s easy to deploy, easier to manage
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- Runs quietly on endpoints with no disruption and no performance impact where it’s deployed. Workers continue to do their jobs, and servers continue to do theirs.
- Attack countermeasures are tailored and targeted. When stopped, they have no impact on an organization’s operations. Users are typically never aware an attack was stopped, allowing IT and security team notifications to be handled calmly and discretely.
- Notifications: News of stopped attacks are For Your Eyes Only. End users and employees receive no indication Cyber Crucible action taken, and no productivity interruption. IT teams and security teams alike receive notifications that attacks have been stopped and can take their time to understand how an attack bypassed perimeter defenses.
- Meanwhile, data and identities are safe from theft, and business-impacting ransom attacks cannot happen. With Cyber Crucible, it’s business as usual.
