CTC Launches Threat Intelligence Monitoring Service to Monitor Cyber Threat Intelligence

ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo; Ichiro Tsuge, President and CEO; hereinafter “CTC”) today commenced its Threat Intelligence Monitoring Service, which monitors cyber threats relevant to customers. The service uses the Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud platform, a SaaS-based platform provided by Recorded Future, Inc. (headquartered in Massachusetts, U.S.; Christopher Ahlberg, CEO), to monitor cyber space including the dark web, where illegal information is traded and information on attempted cyber-attacks is exchanged, for the early detection of new threats and prompt response measures. Our new service is offered as a part of the CTC Managed Security Service (CTC-MSS), CTC’s service supporting customers’ security management operations. We expect CTC-MSS, including the cyber threat intelligence service, to generate sales of 10 billion yen over the next three years.

In recent years, cyber-attacks aimed at stealing the confidential information of specific organizations and personal information have been increasing. Attackers are expanding their activities mainly on the dark web, which is inaccessible using general search engines. Therefore, an important element of cybersecurity measures is to keep abreast of threat trends on the dark web. However, accessing and investigating the dark web not only involves the risk of malware (malicious software) infection but also requires a high level of expertise, including knowledge regarding the thoughts and behaviors of attackers.

The new service is offered to monitor threat trends on the Internet, including the dark web, and provide customers with information such as activity on the dark web including the leakage of confidential information relevant to them, attacks that are planned against them, methods of attacks and countermeasures to protect customers. The Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud platform used in our service collects threat information from the Internet using proprietary technologies such as machine learning and natural language processing, and also gathers information on leaked credentials including customer domain IDs and passwords, phishing sites similar to customer websites, new attack methods used by hackers and vulnerabilities exploited by them. CTC-MSS analysts analyze the collected information and provide customers with countermeasures to prevent potential damage from threats.

This service enables the following:

• Reduction of risks related to cybercrimes exploiting information assets and the customer’s brand
• Obtainment of information on attempted cyberattacks of customers to take countermeasures before an attack occurs
• Acceleration of decision making based on attacker-perspective cybersecurity threat intelligence
• Reduction of time and money needed to secure and develop human resources and to establish a framework to leverage threat intelligence

CTC has also adopted the Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud platform at the CTC Security Operation Center, which remotely monitors corporate systems 24/7/365, to improve the quality of its notifications of detected threats and enhance its security monitoring capabilities. Specifically, its monitoring targets have been expanded beyond the conventionally monitored security devices to include network devices and their access logs, enabling the detection and notification of potential security threats by leveraging threat intelligence.

We will continue to leverage various vendors’ security platforms including Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud platform to expand CTC-MSS brand services and provide enhanced security capabilities to customers who are shifting to multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud computing.