Horizon3.ai NodeZero™
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Horizon3.ai NodeZero™
Additional Info
| Company | Horizon3.ai |
| Website | http://www.horizon3.ai |
| Company size (employees) | 100 to 499 |
| Headquarters Region | North America |
Overview
Security is no longer just a compliance checkbox, and every organization will inevitably experience a cyberattack, so it’s crucial to harden security postures by finding and fixing exploitable vulnerabilities and weaknesses before attackers can exploit them. In an attempt to discover vulnerabilities, organizations often default to using vulnerability scanning tools.
However, these tools don’t tell you if vulnerabilities are truly exploitable, and produce so many results that security teams don’t know where to begin. As a result, teams are overwhelmed with non-contextual reports and dashboards, which waste valuable time and resources chasing vulnerabilities that don’t pose a real threat.
Understanding these background challenges, NodeZero was designed to solve the issues associated with traditional vulnerability scanning tools. And unlike human-led, manual pentests, where less than 1% of a network is typically tested, and unlike automated pentesting solutions that don’t easily scale, NodeZero scales to support and test an organization’s largest networks.
Horizon3.ai’s NodeZero is an autonomous penetration testing platform that allows organizations to launch a pentest in minutes while it safely discovers and exploits weaknesses in a network just as an attacker would. It moves laterally in any environment by compromising credentials through credential attacks, mines exposed data, bypasses security controls, and exploits key vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. NodeZero orchestrates hundreds of offensive security tools, and chains weaknesses together, so organizations can discover their truly exploitable attack surface and preemptively fix vulnerabilities and weaknesses before attackers take advantage, improving their overall security effectiveness.
Organizations can schedule and run as many pentests as they desire against their largest networks and run multiple operations simultaneously. Once teams have completed their remediations, it’s easy to do a 1-click verify to ensure that their fixes are effective. Armed with the latest security assessment reports delivered by NodeZero, users can confidently validate their level of security.
Key Capabilities / Features
NodeZero autonomously discovers and exploits weaknesses in a network just as an attacker would. It moves laterally in any environment by compromising credentials through credential attacks, it mines exposed data, it bypasses security controls, and it safely exploits key vulnerabilities and misconfiguration.
NodeZero’s Asset Discovery is a passive enumeration capability that leverages DNS and other Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) gathering capabilities and services to find all of the assets linked to an organization. NodeZero gives security teams the information they need to understand where their assets are hosted and what third-party services they are linked to. Teams have fine-grained control over how they group their assets and which ones they authorize to pentest.
The Horizon3.ai Attack Team proactively researches potential zero-day vulnerabilities, tracks N-day vulnerabilities, and then identifies which ones are likely to be exploited in the wild. When they identify vulnerabilities that are likely to be exploited, the Horizon3.ai Attack Team reverse-engineers them and creates a proof of concept exploit to understand the impact of the vulnerability. This understanding is embedded into NodeZero and is paired with contextual understanding of the environment to help teams prioritize their remediations and understand when they should patch outside of their regular cycle for a particular threat.
NodeZero identifies security weaknesses earlier in their lifecycle, making them less expensive and less complicated to remediate. The automation and integration provided by NodeZero reduces the need for additional specialized personnel, resulting in substantial savings and better effectiveness given the security skills shortage. Continuous assessment of internal, external, and cloud infrastructures with NodeZero helps organizations maintain and demonstrate compliance with numerous regulatory requirements, potentially preventing costly fines and reputational damage for non-compliance. NodeZero delivers comprehensive, quantifiable security metrics, enabling CISOs and CIOs to make more informed decisions about security investments and policies.
How we are different
** Unlike manual pentesting performed by consultants, which takes days to perform (if not longer), and more days for consultants to provide reports and recommendations, NodeZero is easy-to-use, safe for production, and scales to support the largest networks. Organizations are empowered to test a very broad scope in a single test, orchestrate tests concurrently, and simultaneously test their enterprise from different attacker perspectives. Organizations can test as often as they like for no additional costs or effort. And by analyzing changes in an organization’s exploitable attack surface over time, NodeZero helps them measure the effectiveness of their security initiatives.
** Unlike traditional vulnerability scanning approaches that fall short in risk prioritization, because they assign a broad risk level without considering how the software or application is being used, NodeZero diverges from this path by evaluating the potential downstream impacts of a vulnerability becoming exploited by highlighting what can happen next. Understanding the difference between known vulnerabilities and exploitable vulnerabilities, measuring exploitability is key to risk reduction. This capability of autonomous penetration testing is crucial because it empowers security teams to strategize their remediation efforts, focusing on vulnerabilities that could be actively exploited by attackers, thus enhancing the effectiveness of their vulnerability management programs overall.
** Unlike automated pentesting tools that are designed to only pentest small, air-gapped networks where there is no connectivity to the outside world, NodeZero can scale to any size network. Automated pentesting tools require on-prem resources like a GPU-powered gaming laptop or VMs that must be patched and maintained. NodeZero is architected as a SaaS offering and requires an outside connection, but as a result, NodeZero has no persistent on-prem installation, which means there is nothing to patch or maintain. NodeZero can also scale to hundreds of thousands of hosts with no additional on-prem resources required.
