Overview

CISO organizations have a blind spot that leaves their business vulnerable to email scammers. Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks cost nearly $9B annually, representing 40% of all cybercrime losses (per FBI IC3, 2019, 2020). But CISOs have little or no actionable intelligence about BEC and other phishing attacks on their business. That’s because their email defenses and threat intelligence tools were designed to protect against weaknesses in software infrastructure and controls… while BEC attacks target human weakness via social engineering and victim manipulation, not technical vulnerabilities.

Agari Active Defense™ solves this intelligence blind spot by shining a light on how BEC attackers target and exploit employees — through threat hunting. Agari Active Defense leverages automation in its threat hunting to actively engage with email scammers and uncover the social engineering methods, organizational targets, fraud objectives, and cash-out mechanisms behind BEC and phishing attacks. It delivers global and company-specific intelligence insights that are consumable and actionable by large enterprises, so that security leaders can understand threats, optimize defenses, and manage risk.

Agari Active Defense is the first and only threat hunting service focused on filling the BEC intelligence gap. Since May 2019, the threat researchers at Agari have engaged in more than 12,000 active engagements. It was innovated by the Agari Cyber Intelligence Division (ACID), which is the industry’s only counterintelligence team dedicated to business email compromise (BEC) and cybercrime abatement. Agari Active Defense complements the market-share-leading Agari portfolio of enterprise phishing defense solutions.