How Sumeru’s Threat Meter helps organisations rise above basic security hygiene?

Chidhanandham Arunachalam
3 min readMay 31, 2021

Today, organisations spend significant money securing IT assets but forget about the internet. There’s so much sensitive information about businesses out there the organisations don’t even know exists. But hackers do.

Sumeru Threat Meter scans the entire public internet to find this information for you and paints a clear picture of what your attack surface looks like on the internet.

It’s like we’re your eyes on the internet. Helping you see what hackers see about you.

In the last few months, we have used our external attack surface monitoring tool to help our clients across industries to rise above basic security hygiene and improve their security posture.

Here’s a snapshot of how Sumeru’s Threat Meter helps organisation across various domains & industries -

Discovering Unknown Assets

It was found in a study that 71% of organisations do not have sufficient understanding of their external attack surface.

That’s the reason Threat Meter will help you find the possible solutions -

  • Continuously discover digital assets beyond perimeter
  • Get outside-in view of the entire IT structure
  • Shadow IT asset discovery

Detecting Threats & Data Breaches

Most organisations implement a system to detect threats and breaches in their perimeter.

Attackers target unknown assets which exist outside the perimeter.

Our Threat Meter will help you in -

  • Detecting digital footprint spilled all over the internet
  • Continuously detecting risk associated with digital assets
  • Tracking data exposed online
  • Detecting brand impersonation & damages, rogue mobile apps, domains, and phishing threats

Monitoring the Attack Surface

Organisations’ attack surface grows and becomes more complex.

As a result, it becomes more difficult to securing the ever expanding attack surface.

Sumeru’s Threat Meter assists in -

  • Monitoring entire external IT infrastructure
  • Continuously monitoring growing external attack surface
  • Continuously monitoring identified threat for any further impacts

Analysing your Security Risk Posture

It often happens that your security team gets desensitised to the upcoming threat since they deal with a colossal volume of data and miss out on the true positives.

Having a tool that automatically analyses your security risk posture will definitely give you a competitive advantage.

Here’s how Threat Meter can help -

  • Using Threat Meter, you will be able to get alerts of most critical threats with the powerful blend of AI and human intelligence
  • Threat Meter continuously analyses security risk posture using our proprietary threat score

Prioritise which threats to deal with first

As the number of threats continue to increase, it’s impossible for organisations to successfully address every possible threat.

You need to prioritise and know which one demands your undivided attention.

And Threat Meter can help you prioritise and -

  • Get actionable, prioritised list of risks and threats
  • Provide unique advantage of AI-based machine learning combined with best scoring standards in the industry

Remediate flaws

Approximately, 73% of flaws are closed or remediated between the first scan and the last scan.

Organisations take a median of 86 days to fix them.

Amidst the remaining 27% of the flaws, half of them have been open for 216 days and counting.

Threat Meter is instrumental in facilitating in -

  • Providing actionable remediation steps customised according to the customers’ environment
  • Offering takedown and countermeasure services to help eradicate the external threats

Sumeru’s Threat Meter is now used by businesses across finance, healthcare, education, IT, and other industries.

If you want to know more about the diverse use-case of Sumeru’s Threat Meter, write to us at hello@sumerusolutions.com

We stand with you in the forever fight for security.

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Chidhanandham Arunachalam

A passionate entrepreneurial leader & unshakable optimist dedicated to helping companies achieve remarkable results with great technology solutions.