Corporate
With the emergence of peer-to-peer (P2P), social and other public participation network applications, companies face new and potentially hidden threats. These applications are sometimes referred to as greynet and operate outside the control of IT departments, making it almost impossible to circumvent the risks that they present.
Despite heavy investment in integrated network security devices (eg. firewalls, deep packet inspection appliances) companies still lose potentially sensitive information through greynet applications.
White papers, internal emails, financial figures, staff names, addresses and bank details often find themselves available on the internet because of greynet applications.
How does it happen?
Most commonly through P2P community networks where the user is unaware that they have their company’s data on their desktop/laptop and that it is openly available for anyone else within the P2P community to access. In this example, criminals do not have to be too sophisticated to capture potentially explosive information about your company.
Friend MTS works closely with existing security infrastructure to fill in the gap created by greynet applications. Our service captures sensitive information before it falls in to the wrong hands. Notifications can be sent to the company’s security team with sufficient information to eliminate the risk through automated workflow programs.
The Friend MTS solution works without the need to implement expensive network devices or even download remote software applications. It operates holistically, scanning the internet for information related to your company.
Using our established content and media monitoring service and Exposé, our clients benefit from tried and tested technology to mitigate the risk of corporate leakage.