Securing the keys to the kingdom: Announcing Executive Threat Detection

• Attackers are using greater sophistication to gain access to high-yield targets like executives, and company-wide security measures can easily miss these subtle, personal attacks.
• Executive Threat Detection offers protection for up to 10 principals, with monthly custom threat hunts and reports relevant to those principals’ corporate systems.
• Proactive attention from incident response experts gives executives peace of mind by detecting and stopping long-term, stealthy adversary access.

In our previous exploration of proactive threat hunting, Cisco Talos discussed how the modern security landscape requires a shift from “waiting for the blinky light” to actively searching for the quietest whispers of an adversary. Since then, the threat landscape has only become more personalized. Today, we are seeing a significant surge in whaling and highly targeted campaigns where the objective is the leadership team, not the average user. 

To meet this evolving challenge, Cisco Talos…