Amenaza Technologies
Fortifying Systems from Hostile Cyber

The threat landscape continues to evolve, and businesses must embrace the best cybersecurity strategies to protect their critical assets. Since passive, reactive defenses have already begun to skirt the edge of obsolescence, the need for more preventative, proactive tactics is on the rise.

Attack trees hold the potential to lead this transition, enabling businesses to progress from cybersecurity to cyber resilience. By allowing security teams to instantly visualize attack surfaces, forecast security requirements, and address potential risks, attack trees equip businesses with a security advantage. However, manually evaluating various attack scenarios brings inefficiencies and resource burdens that contribute to IT team burnout.

Simplifying this time and resource-intensive threat modeling method is Amenaza Technologies. Its powerful security threat analysis tool, SecurITree, is designed with an attack tree-based analytic approach that helps security teams easily identify risks. With advanced analytics and reporting functions, the tool efficiently gauges and forecasts possible security threats, allowing clients to make risk-based security decisions regarding a system’s threats. It anticipates attack behavior, discerns associated risks, corroborates the effectiveness of proposed security control, enhances communication with non-technical security decision makers, and illustrates due diligence and compliance with security regulatory standards.

“Our state-of-the-art SecurITree tool eliminates the need to manually interpret graphical representations or calculations, and enables a fast and precise exploration of attack paths,” says Terrance R. Ingoldsby, president of Amenaza Technologies.

SecurITree’s graphical interface makes it easier for risk analysts to create attack tree models, describing their systems and threats, both hostile and non-hostile. It begins with listing every combination of attack scenarios, resources required by the enemy to perform attacks, attacker benefits, and victim impacts to reach the root goal of the tree model. SecurITree then allows the analyst to store goals and capability descriptions of each probable adversary in threat agent profiles.

It compares attack scenarios with an adversary’s threat agent profile, determining their likelihood and risk level. If necessary, the analyst can create variants of the model to test the efficacy of controls and countermeasures. SecurITree is also built with the aptitude to deal with random events using fault tree analysis and scenarios involving random and malicious activities.

Based on this threat analysis, analysts can develop new, strategic security controls. If needed, they can go back to the SecurITree model to reevaluate the risk and see if the newly developed controls are effective.

It is easy to see that implementing SecurITree to an organization’s security control systems comes with absolute security advantage. They can gain better visibility into any potential threats and make necessary changes to prevent an attack before it even occurs. This proactive approach to cybersecurity helps save cost, time, and avert firms from experiencing a negative consequence.

Our state-of-the-art SecurITree tool eliminates the need to manually interpret graphical representations or calculations, and enables a fast and precise exploration of attack paths

Illustrating SecurITree’s value proportion is Amenaza Technologies’ recent collaboration with a customer from the Middle East. The tool helped the client understand how their power system can fare against a variety of adversaries. The SecurITree tool has also been used by various defense and intelligence agencies as well as critical infrastructure organizations such as gas pipelines and nuclear power plants, healthcare providers, and aerospace manufacturers.

The technical excellence of Amenaza Technologies is best complemented by its training services that help users excel at all features and functionalities of the SecurITree tool, driving best results. It offers a three-day course for clients to impart their security control system knowledge onto SecurITree models. Through this process, it becomes easier for them and their risk analysts to reveal hidden insights and gain fresh perspectives about their security choices.

A customer-first firm that focuses on innovation, Amenaza Technologies is constantly analyzing the dynamic threat landscape and market needs to build a future-proof solution that can stand the test of time. The team has successfully stepped on to this innovative journey by integrating ML to the latest version of the SecurITree tool. Beyond making it more user-friendly and efficient, the new product is Amenaza Technologies’ promise for being there for clients no matter what.