As CEO, I couldn’t be more proud of the entire HYAS team. Because of their hard work, and dedication to protecting the industry from cyber threats, our company was just recognized with another full sweep of awards from Cyber Defense Magazine including:

1. Best Product: Critical Infrastructure Protection
2. Best Solution: Protective DNS
3. Best Product: Security Investigation Platform
4. Hot Company: Threat Actor Infrastructure Mapping
5. Market Leader: Threat Detection, Incident Response, Hunting and Triage Platform
6. Cutting Edge: Threat Intelligence

First and foremost, a big thank you to Cyber Defense Magazine for the recognition. It’s an honor and privilege to be acknowledged for our innovation and focus, and recognized as the experts in infrastructure intelligence, as well as the solutions we deliver around the world based on that expertise.  

But let’s take a closer look at each of these recognitions, why HYAS earned them, and what we’re doing around the world to protect not only our customers, but improve the entire cybersecurity industry with the awarded solutions.

Threat Intelligence and Investigation

Looking at the four covering threat intelligence and investigations, it reminded me of a comment that was made to me, quite recently actually, by the vCISO for a US-based MSSP and long-time client:

“I have a ton of tools. But none of them do what HYAS does. You are the glue that connects all other intel tools.”

Infrastructure, related IOCs, and the intelligence around an adversary’s use of them are at the heart of all security, fraud, and intel investigations. Criminals must create and establish infrastructure for command-and-control before launching their attacks. Various related IOCs help either pinpoint that infrastructure or otherwise identify various aspects of an attack, from how and where to even potentially when and who, as well as which direction to go in for further investigation or action.

Every company needs its focus, a central thesis that makes it and its intellectual property unique and different from everyone else’s. For HYAS it’s our focus on infrastructure and IOC intelligence. HYAS believes that understanding adversary infrastructure, its creation and evolution, and how attackers weaponize and utilize it, is the first and necessary step to understanding and ultimately preventing cyber criminal activity. As such, the HYAS Adversary Infrastructure Platform is the attacker’s Achilles heel. It enables key infrastructure intelligence and insights focused on “VRA” or Verdicts, Related Infrastructure, and Actor Attribution; this ultimately powers HYAS Insight, the investigation solution that won all of the awards.  Analysts around the world, across different verticals and organizations, utilize it to answer the hard questions they can’t answer anywhere else – as a Director at a Financial Services company said to me, “HYAS provides us with the critical visibility, intelligence, and answers that we can’t get anywhere else.”  Cutting Edge and Market Leader indeed.

Protective DNS and Protection of Critical Infrastructure

But let’s not forget the other two–Best Product Critical Infrastructure Protection and Best Solution Protective DNS. There are lots of other companies that claim product solutions in these categories, some of which are significantly larger in size and resources than HYAS. So, what distinguished HYAS from the rest, leading to these award wins?

Ultimately it came down to the same reason that HYAS won so many awards for threat intelligence. The Achilles heel for cyber criminals is their reliance on adversary infrastructure. As the expert in infrastructure intelligence, as well as the related IOCs that go with it, HYAS is able to defend organizations better than anyone. Whereas most other companies in these categories protect their clients via “hope”–they hope that they can discover what is good and bad, and update their allow and deny lists, before their clients are impacted and affected–HYAS delivers proven, tested, accurate knowledge in advance of the attack. That focus on “VRA” enables HYAS to know what is going to be used as nefarious adversary infrastructure before it gets weaponized and deployed. That unique infrastructure intelligence is how HYAS delivers better accuracy and correctness than anyone else, as proven through independent testing by AV-TEST, and why critical infrastructure providers and leading organizations around the world utilize HYAS Protect as a key component in their security stack.  

Adapting to the Ever-Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape

In a world where AI is rapidly improving attackers’ efficacy, and criminals are continually finding new techniques to evade detection and penetrate organizations, security practitioners need to augment their approach to not only proactively protect themselves against what’s going to happen, but fundamentally transform their approach to resilience and threat anticipation. Security professionals should have the ability to go to sleep at night with the confidence that if something nefarious occurs, it will be rapidly detected and stopped. Protective DNS is becoming a “must have” capability in this brave new world, whether part of a zero-trust model, for overall cyber resiliency, or simply as increased intelligence to bolster the existing security stack. HYAS Protect is currently deployed on four different continents, protecting various verticals across CISA’s critical infrastructure sectors, and we’re thrilled to be recognized by Cyber Defense Magazine, not just for the innovation, but for the good we’re doing around the world with it.

We Don’t Plan to Fail, We Fail to Plan

As we look to put a wrap on 2024, there are three major questions you should ask yourself:  How confident are you in your current security posture and your ability to proactively address tomorrow’s unknown threat? What are your biggest concerns heading into 2025? And how can HYAS support you with some award-winning solutions in addressing these challenges?

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from HYAS Blog - 2024 authored by David Ratner. Read the original post at: https://www.hyas.com/blog/its-awards-season-again