Group-IB Frequently Asked Questions

Group-IB is owned by its parent company, Group-IB Global Private Limited, which was established and is based in Singapore. Group-IB operates as a group of companies with various subsidiaries in different regions, such as Group-IB Europe B.V. and Group-IB MEA FZ-LLC. Group-IB was co-founded by Dmitry Volkov and Ilya Sachkov. The current Chief Executive Officer is Dmitry Volkov. Regional directors and Chief Regional Officers s lead their respective markets, while ownership and overall control reside with the Singapore-based parent entity. Learn more about the Leadership team.

Group-IB was founded in 2003 by Dmitry Volkov and Ilya Sachkov, who recognized a gap in digital forensics, incident response, and investigations, and launched the startup with a mission to fight cybercrime. 

Key milestones and aspects of Group-IB history include:

2003: Group-IB is founded.

Growth and Expansion: The company expanded from its origins to become a group of companies with a global presence, including subsidiaries in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa region, and Central Asia.

Innovation and Recognition: Group-IB has been recognized for its technology and services, receiving industry awards such as the Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Leader Award and a 5-Star Rating in the CRN® Partner Program Guide.

Law Enforcement Partnerships: Group-IB has actively collaborated with international, regional, and national law enforcement agencies, participating in major cybercrime investigations and operations alongside organizations such as INTERPOL, Europol, and Afripol.

Global Footprint: Group-IB operates a “glocal” model with offices and Digital Crime Resistance Centers (DCRCs) that pair world-class capability with local context.

Europe: Amsterdam (Netherlands) and additional EU presence

Middle East: Dubai (UAE) and regional delivery across the GCC

Southeast Asia: Singapore (regional HQ), Phuket (Thailand), Hanoi (Vietnam)

Central Asia: Tashkent (Uzbekistan) with coverage across the region

South Asia: Regional delivery and partnerships

East Asia: Regional delivery and partnerships

Latin America: Santiago (Chile) with coverage across the region

Africa: Regional delivery and partnerships

Leadership and Values: Group-IB’s culture is built on unity, innovation, and a relentless drive to achieve results. The company values hard work, teamwork, and continuous learning.

Group-IB’s journey from a small startup to a global cybersecurity leader is marked by its dedication to fighting cybercrime, its innovative approach, and its strong internal culture.

The mission of Group-IB is to fight against digital crime so that clients, including companies, individuals, and society, can achieve their goals safely. Group-IB’s mission is rooted in the belief that our work is fair, honest, and important, driven by a desire to help people in trouble, a thirst for justice, and an intolerance to crime.

Key aspects of Group-IB’s mission include:

• Combating cybercrime by developing advanced cybersecurity technologies to investigate, predict,  prevent, and fight digital crime, strengthening global digital safety and trust. 
• Disruption of cybercrime and the dismantling of cybercriminal infrastructure through comprehensive, cross-regional threat visibility, enabled by predictive threat intelligence and cyber-fraud fusion that exposes end-to-end malicious infrastructure.
• Disrupt cybercriminal infrastructure in real-time, regardless of geographic or jurisdictional boundaries.
• To develop a “glocal” company, one that is global in reach, yet locally embedded. This enables us to deliver bespoke solutions, services, and unique context-aware insights tailored to the local cyber environments and threat landscapes our clients operate in.
• Building a reputation as the best, strongest, and most reliable partner in the fight against cybercrime, emphasizing qualities like quality, speed, friendliness, and accessibility.
• Forging and strengthening partnerships with local and international law enforcement agencies, government organizations, and regulators to enhance global cybersecurity.

Group-IB’s DCRC stands for Digital Crime Resistance Center. It is the core element of Group-IB’s decentralized, “glocal” (global + local) approach to cybersecurity. Each DCRC acts as a regional hub for fraud protection, incident response, threat intelligence, and cybercrime investigations.

Built in key locations, DCRCs pair world-class capability with on-the-ground context. Teams work hand in hand with regional law enforcement, collaborate with universities, and stay active in local CERT and security communities. That proximity means faster response, better evidence handling, and threat intelligence.

The DCRC model enables Group-IB to operate as a decentralized organization, with each center supporting and replicating it in neighboring regions, much like a living cell. Group-IB has established DCRCs in locations including Singapore, Amsterdam, Dubai, Tashkent, Phuket, Hanoi, and Santiago.

Below is a consolidated view of Group-IB’s certifications and professional credentials. The first section covers company-level attestations and standards that validate our processes and platforms; the second highlights individual expert certifications held across our teams.

Company certificates & attestations

• Bureau Veritas Cybersecurity Attestation (GDPR principles for Cyber Fraud Intelligence Platform)
• ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (Information Security Management System)
• ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management System)
• Compliance with US Department of Justice requirements (Independent practitioner’s assurance report)
• Managed Security Operations Center (SOC) & Monitoring Service License (Singapore)
• Trusted Introducer (Accredited member)

Expert certificates

• Windows Forensics with Belkasoft
• GIAC Security Operations Manager (GSOM)
• GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI)
• GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)
• GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
• CompTIA Security+
• ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
• Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE)
• Offensive Security Experienced Pentester (OSEP)
• Offensive Security Exploit Developer (OSED)
• Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
• Offensive Security Wireless Professional (OSWP)
• Burp Suite Certified Practitioner (BSCP)
• Blue Team Level 1 (BTL1)
• AccessData Summation Certified Case Manager (SCCM)
• AccessData Certified Investigator (ACI)
• AccessData Summation Certified Administrator (SCA)
• Foundations of Operationalizing MITRE ATT&CK
• Cyber Threat Hunting Level 1
• ICSI Certified Network Security Specialist (CNSS)
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Data Domain System Administration
• Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
• Veritas NetBackup Administrator
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Project Management Expert (PME)
• BSI — ISO 27001:2013 Lead Auditor
• GDPR Data Privacy Technologist (DPT)
• GDPR Data Privacy Professional (DPP)
• Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)

Group-IB leverages AI in several advanced ways to enhance cybersecurity, threat intelligence, and internal operations:

AI Assistant for Threat Intelligence

Group-IB has introduced an AI Assistant that integrates its extensive threat intelligence database with advanced AI capabilities. This tool enables security analysts to obtain precise answers to complex queries in real time, streamlining cybersecurity operations and improving response times.

AI Red Teaming Services

Group-IB’s AI Red Teaming practice includes penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and adversarial simulations specifically tailored for environments that use AI and machine learning.

Self-Adaptive Autopilot Platform

Group-IB’s cybersecurity platform uses AI-driven data analytics to understand attacker behavior and autonomously adapt defenses accordingly. This automation reduces the need for basic support and allows experts to focus on more complex cybercrime challenges.

Group-IB AI Hub

A centralized, customer-facing portal that packages Group-IB’s AI capabilities and know-how into one place. It provides practical guidance, tools, and training to help teams evaluate, implement, and govern AI across security operations, fraud prevention, and risk management. Explore AI Cybersecurity Hub. 

Malware and Vulnerability Insights

Group-IB continuously researches thousands of malicious files using AI to extract configuration files, analyze malware behavior, and prioritize patching. AI-driven dashboards provide in-depth analysis of malware families, vulnerabilities, and exploits discussed on the dark web and social media.

Automated Malware Detonation and Deep Analysis

Suspicious files can be uploaded to Group-IB’s platform, where AI-powered analysis provides detailed behavioral reports, network activity, and threat attribution. This includes flexible detonation options and support for various file types.

Real-Time Threat Intelligence Feeds

AI is used to deliver real-time streams of Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), such as file hashes, IP addresses, domains, and URLs, which integrate with clients’ security infrastructure for rapid threat detection and response.

Internal AI Tools

Group-IB uses internal AI assistants (like “Sofi”) to help employees quickly find information, navigate company processes, and improve productivity by providing instant answers from the internal knowledge base.

Group-IB builds preventive cybersecurity through a multi-layered, intelligence-driven, and globally distributed approach. Here’s how:

Intelligence-Driven Technologies  

Group-IB leverages global and regional threat intelligence to proactively detect, disrupt, and prevent cyber threats before they escalate. Their platforms integrate advanced analytics, AI, and real-time data feeds to identify emerging risks and automatically adapt defenses.

Predictive and Proactive Defense  

Group-IB’s vision is to move beyond detection and prevention to prediction. It analyzes past attacks and criminal behavior, and its technologies aim to anticipate and stop cyber threats before they occur, much like a “Minority Report”- style approach to cybersecurity.

Digital Crime Resistance Centers (DCRCs)

Group-IB’s decentralized DCRC model places expert teams in key regions worldwide. These centers combine local threat research, digital forensics, incident response, and CERT capabilities to provide rapid, tailored, and region-specific protection. This “glocal” strategy ensures both global reach and local expertise.

Unified Risk Platform

Group-IB is unifying its products, covering cybersecurity, anti-fraud, and brand protection into a single platform. This streamlines security operations and enables organizations to respond to threats more efficiently.

Fraud Intelligence and Prevention

Group-IB’s fraud protection solutions fuse cybersecurity tactics with advanced fraud insights. They use behavioral biometrics, global fraud intelligence, and proactive monitoring to detect and block fraud schemes early, sharing intelligence across industries and regions.

Collaboration with Law Enforcement

Group-IB works closely with police, regulators, and judicial authorities to investigate and prosecute cybercriminals, further strengthening preventive measures.

Group-IB serves a wide range of industries that are highly exposed to cyber threats and fraud risks. Our solutions and services are designed to protect organizations across both the public and private sectors. Key industries served by Group-IB include:

• Banking and Financial Services (including Fintech, Payment Service Providers, and Insurance)
• Government and Public Sector
• Telecommunications
• E-commerce and Retail
• Gaming and Betting
• Crypto and Blockchain
• Healthcare
• Energy and Utilities
• Manufacturing
• Oil & Gas

Group-IB’s technologies and services address a range of use cases across these industries, including fraud prevention, identity theft protection, cyber threat intelligence, digital risk protection, incident response, and regulatory compliance. We also work closely with law enforcement, regulators, and industry associations to strengthen cybersecurity across sectors.

Group-IB has received significant industry recognition for its technology, services, and business excellence. Here are some highlights of their recent awards and accolades:

Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Leader Award 2025

Group-IB was honored by Frost & Sullivan for its leadership and innovation in cybersecurity technology.

5-Star Rating in the 2025 CRN® Partner Program Guide

Group-IB earned a prestigious 5-star rating in CRN’s Partner Program Guide, reflecting the company’s strong partner ecosystem and value to channel partners.

Group-IB recognized in Forrester’s APAC Fraud Management Landscape

Group-IB has been named a Notable Vendor in the Enterprise Fraud Management Solutions in the Asia Pacific Landscape, Q2 2025. 

Featured in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass Report – Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms for eCommerce (2025)

KuppingerCole Analysts AG recognised Group-IB as an Overall Leader, Product Leader, and Innovation Leader in the 2025 Leadership Compass for Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms – eCommerce.

Featured in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass Report – XDR (2024)

Group-IB was recognized among the top 11 XDR vendors globally, with analysts highlighting its daily ML-enhanced detection model updates and strong interfaces for SOCs, analysts, and threat hunters.

Trusted Partnerships with Law Enforcement

Group-IB is the only cybersecurity company with cooperation agreements with INTERPOL, Europol, and local law enforcement worldwide, further validating its credibility and expertise.

Group-IB serves a diverse range of customers across multiple industries, including both private and public sector organizations. While specific customer names are typically confidential due to the sensitive nature of cybersecurity, Group-IB’s customer base includes:

• Banks and Financial Institutions (including fintech companies, payment service providers, and insurance firms)
• Government agencies and public sector organizations
• Telecommunications companies
• E-commerce and retail businesses
• Educational institutions
• Real estate companies
• Gaming, betting, and entertainment platforms
• Crypto and blockchain companies
• Healthcare providers
• Energy, utilities, and manufacturing companies
• Travel, booking, and ticketing services
• Media and technology companies

Group-IB is also a trusted partner for law enforcement agencies, regulators, and industry associations worldwide. The company’s solutions are used by organizations seeking advanced protection against cyber threats, fraud, and digital risks. (See live catalog of success stories.) 

National CERT (public sector): Croatian National CERT — used Group-IB Threat Intelligence to strengthen sector-wide defense across regulated industries and millions of users. 

Tier-1 global bank (financial services): integrated Group-IB Threat Intelligence to combat financial crime and improve security posture. 

Banca Mediolanum (banking): Group-IB Attack Surface Management automated discovery of shadow IT and misconfigurations to streamline vulnerability management.

Explore all the Success Stories from our customers.

A threat intelligence platform (TIP), also known as a cyber threat intelligence platform, is a technology solution that gathers, combines, and organizes threat intelligence from various sources.

Threat intelligence solutions empower effective and precise threat identification, investigation, and response by providing a security team with information about threats in an easily digestible format.

Solutions of this class automate data collection and management, allowing threat intelligence analysts to focus on analyzing and researching cybersecurity threats. Additionally, threat intelligence platforms facilitate the communication of digital threat intelligence information to security specialists.

A cyber threat intelligence platform provides organizations with insights into potential security threats by gathering data and transforming it into useful intel. Threat intel platforms also include security assessments, monitoring, and offering threat response support. Intelligence platforms work through the following process:

1. Data Collection
Threat intel platforms collect threat data from various sources, including open-source. They also look for cybersecurity indicators from dark web monitoring, malware sandboxes, threat intelligence sharing, and the vendor’s own research.

2. Data Storage
They then store large amounts of raw threat data in the platform’s database for analysis and correlation.

3. Data Normalization
The raw data undergoes normalization to standardize it and filter out irrelevant items, preparing it for analysis.

4. Data Analysis
The platform deploys machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify patterns and relationships in the normalized threat data.

5. Knowledge Generation
By correlating and enriching analyzed data, the platform generates threat information through organized insights, tactical reports, and strategic assessments.

6. Dissemination
Threat intelligence platforms also disseminate the generated threat intelligence to connected security tools, systems, and users via automated feeds and interactive dashboards or interfaces.

7. Actionable Security
The intelligence enables proactive security postures by feeding threat detection and alerting systems, empowering investigations, and driving improvements in security controls.

A threat intel platform provides an automated, proactive approach to obtaining threat data from various sources and turning it into actionable intelligence. It enables real-time monitoring of emerging threats through alerts and reports, helping improve an organization’s security posture. Use our industry-leading cyber threat intelligence platform to gain an upper hand against cybercriminals.

Cyber threat intelligence teams help organizations stay a step ahead of attackers by understanding attacker tactics, visualizing emerging risks, and tracking threat indicators in real time. With timely alerts and actionable insights from a cyber threat intelligence platform, organizations can block or isolate threats preemptively before they impact critical systems and data.

Threat intelligence data isn’t simply information. Organizations use accurate and timely threat intel as a blueprint for their mitigation efforts. A cyber threat intelligence platform provides timely updates, enabling organizations to anticipate and respond to imminent threats. Threat intelligence solutions offer value in the following ways:

1. Giving context

Through threat intelligence tools or software, a platform takes raw security data and gives it context. Platforms that integrate threat intelligence from multiple sources provide insight into malicious infrastructure, techniques, and threat indicators associated with each alert. This contextualization allows analysts to prioritize issues based on a complete understanding of inherent risks

2. Automation

Threat intelligence platforms use automation to achieve faster threat detection and response by automatically collecting threat data from various sources around the clock. They then structure and correlate this information to identify relationships and patterns that cybercriminals use. Use our Managed XDR solution for automated threat intel feeds, monitoring and analysis, and detection in real-time.

3. Real-time monitoring

A timely response is key to managing and mitigating cyber threats. Threat intelligence tools facilitate real-time monitoring and threat detection through analytics. They scan networks and continuously analyze all incoming data to surface anomalies and detect emerging threats. A security operations center generates alerts upon detecting potential security incidents, which empowers organizations to reduce security risks and data exposure.

To get started simply fill in the form on this page. Our threat intelligence team will guide you through the proof of concept process and show you how to get the most value out of your Threat Intelligence solution.

Group-IB Threat Intelligence Platform is a cloud service and can be enabled instantly. Our onboarding team will help configure the threat intelligence solution to meet your specific requirements and support integration with third-party services.

Our threat intelligence platform is modular and flexible, allowing you to gather the intelligence you need how and when you need it. We believe that intelligence should be accessed and do not charge per user, integration or API call.

Group-IB’s threat intel platform utilizes Threat Hunting Rules, enabling intelligence to be filtered and refined to meet your exact needs. Our team will set these up when the threat intelligence solution is first enabled and will work with you to continuously refine them. Your team can also add/remove/modify any rule to customize the intelligence to your exact needs.

With numerous successful deployments worldwide, we can provide case studies to help you build a business case for digital threat intelligence. Reach out to our team of experts to learn how Group-IB has improved security and delivered ROI for organizations across sectors.

Our Threat Intelligence is powered by the Unified Risk Platform, which collects, correlates, and applies intelligence that is gathered from every function of Group-IB. This provides us with a uniquely diverse set of sources:

• Malware intelligence
• Detonation platform
• Malware emulators
• Malware configuration files extraction
• Public sandboxes
• Data intelligence
• C&C server analysis
• Dark web forums
• Dark web markets
• Instant Messengers
• Phishing and malware kits
• Compromised data-checkers
• Phishing data collection points
• Human intelligence
• Malware reverse engineers
• Undercover dark web agents
• DFIR and audit services
• Law enforcement operations
• Sensor intelligence
• ISP-level sensors
• Honeypot network
• IP scanners
• Web crawlers
• Vulnerability intelligence
• CVE list
• Exploit repositories
• Dark web discussions
• Threat campaigns mapping
• Open-source intelligence
• Paste sites
• Code repositories
• Exploit repositories
• Social media discussions
• URL sharing services

When considering the ideal cyber threat intelligence platform for your organization, consider the features offered. This includes a variety of sources, integrated data aggregation and correlation capabilities, real-time monitoring and machine-readable reports, ease of integration with existing security operations, and opportunities for customization.

At Group-IB, we stay at the cutting edge of threat intelligence technology by continually adding new intelligence sources, analytics techniques, and security integrations.

There are 4 types of threat intelligence, and they are:

1. Strategic threat intelligence

Strategic threat intelligence is an executive-ready context on who is likely to target your sector, why now, and what the business impact will be. Leaders use it to set policy and investment priorities so budgets, training, and incident plans align with real risk and regulatory expectations.

2. Tactical threat intelligence

Tactical threat intelligence details how attackers operate, including their TTPs, tooling, and preferred entry paths. Engineering and SOC teams turn this into high-fidelity detections, hardened configurations, and updated playbooks that stop the next attempt rather than describe the last one.

3. Operational threat intelligence

Operational threat intelligence surfaces live, campaign-specific signals, such as C2 infrastructure, phishing domains, and targeting windows. SOCs use it to act within hours: block communications, isolate assets, initiate takedowns, and contain impact before losses escalate.

4. Technical threat intelligence

Technical threat intelligence is the lowest-level, rapidly changing data tied to specific threats, such as file hashes, IP addresses, domains, URLs, and certificates. Security teams and tools ingest these indicators into SIEMs, EDRs, IDSs, and WAFs to automatically detect and block malicious activity in real time, cut dwell time, reduce false positives through curated feeds, and enforce consistent controls across endpoints, networks, and the cloud.

The 3 P’s of threat intelligence are: Predictive, Proactive, and Preemptive.

1. Predictive threat intelligence

Forward-looking analysis that estimates who is likely to target you, why now, and where they’ll try first. It guides strategy and budgets by prioritizing control gaps, tabletop scenarios, and hardening plans before pressure mounts.

2. Proactive threat intelligence
Operational insight that turns forecasts into early action. Teams stand up watchlists, hunt for staging signals (new domains, lure themes, infrastructure reuse), refresh detections, and brief at-risk business units to shrink exposure before campaigns peak.

3. Preemptive threat intelligence
Decisive intervention that removes attacker options. Automated playbooks trigger takedowns, MFA resets, WAF rules, segmentation, and emergency patches at defined risk thresholds.

AI threat intelligence applies machine learning and advanced analytics to the threat-intel lifecycle, like collection, processing, analysis, dissemination, and feedback, to turn vast, volatile data into decisions that reduce risk. Now, the difference is that it spots patterns a human would miss or see too late. It clusters related indicators, flags staging behavior, and pushes high-confidence signals into the tools your team already uses.

For example, when a phishing-as-a-service kit comes online, small signals appear first. Operators register bursts of look-alike domains within hours or days. They often reuse TLS certificates across those domains. The pages share near-identical HTML fragments. Exfiltration points switch to new Telegram bots created around the same time.

On their own, each signal looks trivial. Together, they describe a single campaign.

AI helps by stitching these fragments into one picture. It ingests domain data, certificate records, page fingerprints, and Telegram indicators, even when they appear in different languages or sources. The model clusters them into a single operation and raises an early alert.

Threat intelligence in a SOC is the curated, time-sensitive body of knowledge that directs monitoring, detection, and response. It identifies who is active (actors and campaigns), how they operate (TTPs mapped to MITRE ATT&CK), and what they use (IOCs, exploited CVEs, C2 infrastructure). Integrated into SIEM/XDR/SOAR, it drives detection engineering, enriches alerts for high-confidence triage, seeds threat hunting, and informs containment playbooks.

Threat intelligence tools are platforms that collect, normalize, analyze, and distribute evidence about adversaries, actors, campaigns, TTPs, IOCs, and exploited CVEs. Security teams can detect earlier, triage faster, and respond with confidence. They integrate with SIEM, XDR, SOAR, EDR, WAF, DNS, and ticketing to turn intel into action.

How Group-IB delivers it

1. Actionability by design. Pushes STIX/TAXII and API feeds to SIEM/XDR/SOAR, auto-enriches alerts, generates YARA/Suricata candidates, and prioritizes indicators by sector, region, and tech stack.
   
2. Graph investigations. Visual link analysis connecting domains, IPs, certs, lures, and Telegram/marketplace artifacts—accelerating attribution and hunting.
3. From intel to disruption. Tight coupling with CERT-GIB and Digital Cyber Risk Centers enables rapid takedowns (phishing/brand abuse) and field support when incidents escalate.

Evaluation checklist (use this to benchmark any tool)

• Coverage & provenance: Depth in dark web, malware, brand abuse, and regional sources; evidence lineage.
  
• Relevance scoring: Sector/region/stack weighting; ATT&CK alignment.
  
• Integration quality: Native SIEM/XDR/SOAR connectors, STIX/TAXII, case system enrichment.
  
• Investigation UX: Graph, sandboxing, and pivot speed.
• Outcomes: Documented reductions in loss, dwell time, and alert fatigue.

A threat intelligence report is an evidence-based brief that explains a current or emerging threat in a way your teams can act on. It identifies the actor or campaign, documents tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), lists indicators of compromise (IOCs) and targeted systems, and translates findings into prioritized actions for prevention, detection, and response.

What it includes

1. Executive summary: What happened, why it matters, and the expected impact on your sector/stack.
2. Adversary profile & intent: Likely objectives, targeting logic, and confidence levels.
3. TTPs & artifacts: Kill-chain narrative, tooling, infrastructure, and procedure variations.
4. IOCs & relevance: Domains, IPs, hashes, certificates, lure themes—scored for your environment.
5. Recommended actions: Preventive controls, detections (YARA/Suricata/SIEM queries), and response playbooks.
6. Appendices: Evidence, timelines, methodology, and caveats.

External Attack Surface Management is the process of continuously discovering, inventorying, assessing, and securing all external IT assets an organization owns. An IT asset is considered external if it can be accessed from the public Internet without a VPN.

External Attack Surface Management is generally considered a specific subset of the broader concept of attack surface management. Other adjacent categories include “cyber asset attack surface management,” which covers IT asset discovery and management for both internal and external assets, and “cloud security posture management,” which is a flavor of attack surface management focused exclusively on cloud assets.

The precise definitions of these terms are still up for discussion. As technology and markets evolve, some of these terms will coalesce, and others will simply fall out of fashion. The key point is that external attack surface management is an essential security process that discovers, catalogs, assesses, and secures all external IT assets.

Group-IB Attack Surface Management scans the entire Internet to identify and index corporate infrastructure. Relationships between these assets are then mapped through digital connections such as subdomains, SSL certificates, DNS records, and other discovery techniques. When you enter your organization’s domain, the system can immediately identify your infrastructure. This is then enriched with real-time discovery techniques and security validation to identify issues and raise alerts for remediation.

The focus of Group-IB Attack Surface Management is to identify your full attack surface, including external assets you may not know about, such as shadow IT, forgotten infrastructure, and misconfigured databases accidentally exposed to the open web. This is distinct from vulnerability scanners, which must be given a specific IP range of known assets to function.

Group-IB Attack Surface Management provides value in several ways. First, it identifies unmanaged assets, thereby greatly reducing risk and improving security. Second, these newly discovered assets can be added to the scope of existing security investments, such as vulnerability scanners, penetration tests, and even newer tools like BAS and CART products.

Lastly, by automating the identification and inventorying of external assets. The teams and personnel who would ordinarily spend significant time on these tasks are free to reallocate resources to other high-priority projects.

Group-IB has been scanning the dark web and collecting threat intelligence for more than a decade. This includes credential dumps, discussions on dark web forums, malware deployment, the hosting of phishing panels, the sale of initial access to corporate networks, C&C server traffic, botnet activity, and more.

When you deploy Group-IB Attack Surface Management, your organization and all of its confirmed assets are checked against these databases to identify any matches. If there is a match, the data is added to that asset in your Group-IB Attack Surface Management dashboard.

Contact the Group-IB team via the form at the bottom of this page to get started with a trial license. Attack Surface Monitoring doesn’t require any new instances and is deployed in a matter of minutes. All you need to test drive Group-IB Attack Surface Management is your corporate email address.

Once you have access to Group-IB Attack Surface Management, it takes just a few clicks to map your entire company’s attack surface. No agents, integrations, or major configurations are required.

No, Group-IB Attack Surface Management conducts passive data collection.

Pricing for Group-IB Attack Surface Management is based on the organization’s total number of domains, sub-domains, SSL certificates, and IP addresses, making attack surface monitoring accessible to companies of all sizes and scopes. Licenses are typically 1 year in length, although longer licenses are available at a discounted rate.

Your attack surface is the full set of places an attacker could try to enter, move, or steal data. It spans technology (internet-facing apps, APIs, open ports, misconfigured cloud services, SaaS tenants), assets (endpoints, mobiles, shadow IT, exposed buckets), people (phishing targets, reused credentials, over-privileged accounts), and processes (third-party access, weak change controls).

The bigger and more dynamic this surface, the higher your risk. That’s why teams practice Attack Surface Management (ASM): continuously discover what’s exposed, verify what’s actually reachable, prioritize by exploitability and business impact, and then reduce, monitor, and repeat.

In plain terms: know what you own, see what’s truly open, fix what matters first, and keep watching as your environment changes.

The widely used synonym is “threat surface” (sometimes “attack surface area”).
You may also see “exposure surface” in some vendor materials, but it isn’t universal. “Vulnerability surface” isn’t a strict synonym; vulnerabilities are just one part of the attack surface.

Basically, the attack surface is every place an attacker can get a foothold. The cleanest way to see it is by how access happens.

1. External digital surface

Everything reachable from the internet, like public web/apps/APIs, DNS, exposed ports, VPNs, email gateways, cloud endpoints, and SaaS tenants. It’s where scanning starts, and misconfigurations are most costly (e.g., open S3 buckets, forgotten test subdomains).

2. Internal enterprise surface

Assets and pathways inside the network: lateral movement paths, unmanaged endpoints, legacy servers, flat VLANs, shared admin tools. Once a single control fails, these routes determine the blast radius.

3. Cloud & SaaS surface

Accounts, roles, policies, storage, CI/CD, serverless, containers, and third-party apps tied to your IdP. Small IAM mistakes create big exposure (over-permissive roles, public objects, token leakage).

4. Identity & keys surface

Users, service accounts, OAuth grants, API keys, secrets, certificates, and SSH keys. Most modern attacks are identity-based, like stealing a token or bypassing the perimeter.

5. Physical surface

Devices, servers, network gear, removable media, kiosk/office access. Lost/stolen laptops, console access, or rogue peripherals can bypass logical controls.

6. Human surface (incl. social engineering)

People, process, and trust: phishing, pretexting, MFA fatigue, help-desk manipulation, insider misuse. Adversaries target judgment and workflows; “social engineering” is a technique against the human surface, not a separate surface.

7. Third-party & supply-chain surface

Vendors, MSPs, software dependencies, integrations, payment, and messaging partners. Your risk inherits theirs, making compromised partners trusted entry points.

Please contact your partner or the Group-IB Digital Risk Protection team to discuss details.

To start the project, we require minimal input data: to detect violations, we need only the list of brands/trademarks and a whitelist of legal resources. To block brand infringement, we need a power of attorney from the trademark owner.

In our Digital Risk Protection Platform, we use sources such as domain name monitoring, scam/phishing databases, advertisements, search results, social media platforms, and special parsers for marketplaces, mobile stores, and messengers.

We use keywords, regular expressions, and different scoring models. All this is supervised by analysts 24×7 to detect errors and improve our systems. We also leverage telemetry from both our Threat Intelligence and Business Email Protection solutions.

Group-IB has established strong relationships with domain registrars, hosting providers, domain zone authorities, different associations, and administrators of the largest websites. Our online brand protection team contacts them directly and requests that they shut down a specific site or webpage.

As a trusted party for some domain zones, we have an API that allows us to take down domains in minutes on an automated basis. Besides, Group-IB owns CERT-GIB, which is a member of FIRST and a Trusted introducer.

Your security is our top priority. All sensitive data is transmitted after the NDA is signed.

We can work with any language you want. Group-IB Digital Risk Protection already has customers from all over the world: Thailand, Singapore, India, Germany, the Netherlands, Africa, Vietnam, Japan, Spain, and many more, and protects their digital assets in any local language.

Group-IB’s Digital Risk Protection continuously and automatically monitors millions of online resources where your brand or intellectual property may be present. Through leveraging proprietary Threat Intelligence, our Digital Risk Protection (DRP) solution monitors, detects, and contains risks across web domains, social media, and engagement channels to enable complete brand protection as a part of the cybersecurity service.

Digital Risk Protection implements a three-stage takedown process to maximize the likelihood that violations are eliminated.

If an attack is already underway, our DRP analysts and forensic experts collect evidence as part of the investigation and provide relevant legal support.

All in all, Digital Risk Protection helps organizations build holistic defenses for their digital assets, and its automated response capabilities ensure you never overlook relevant threats.

Group-IB Managed XDR provides organizations with advanced detection and response capabilities with access to threat hunting and remediation through a single interface. The solution uses a combination of several best-in-class technologies and human-led expertise:

1. Endpoint detection and response (EDR). Detect malicious activity across endpoints by leveraging threat intelligence data, signatures, and behavioral analysis. Organizations can use EDR to respond to threats by blocking file execution, killing processes, and isolating hosts from the network.
2. Network Traffic Analysis (NTA). Discover anomalies and covert communication channels, and attribute threats with NTA. Malicious activity in network traffic is detected by analyzing files and links extracted from network traffic, file storage, and proxy servers. The data is used to attribute threats.
3. Business Email Protection (BEP). Secure corporate email hosted in the cloud or on-premises. The solution detonates and analyzes suspicious attachments and links in isolated environments, identifies attacks, and blocks them before they reach their target.
4. Malware detonation platform (MDP). Run suspicious files and links in sandbox environments for extensive analysis, threat detection, IoC extraction, and attack attribution.
5. Managed services (MS). Group-IB offers a range of cybersecurity services for organizations looking to offload operations to experts.

To start POC, simply request a demo by completing the form. In most cases, you will just need to provide a number of end devices in your IT environment to clarify the scope, and the POC will be ready to start.

Group-IB provides managed XDR services, including round-the-clock incident support, alert triage, and managed threat-hunting activities.

Group-IB also offers a range of audit services, including penetration testing and red teaming, as well as DFIR services, including incident response and eDiscovery.

Group-IB continuously updates the intelligence used by Managed XDR to identify threats in real-time. Machine learning engines and analysts work to update and refine TTPs, IoCs, malware profiles, and related data using the latest insights as they are discovered.

The features and capabilities of Managed XDR are also regularly updated, approximately once a month. Group-IB releases product updates with enhancements and new features.

Yes, organizations that lack the expertise or headcount to conduct threat hunting can use the Group-IB Managed XDR platform. Supported by highly trained analysts, they help attribute threats, understand company-specific TTPs, and make recommendations to improve the security posture.

The Managed XDR unified dashboard gathers telemetry from all sources, correlates alerts, and identifies threats using its machine learning engine. Security teams can easily test hypotheses and search for threats with intuitive search queries.

Yes, Managed XDR is routinely used for incident response. Customers, managed service providers, and Group-IB’s own teams use the solution to identify, respond, and remediate threats. Organizations that lack the expertise or headcount to perform incident response can utilize Group-IB’s managed service offering.

When hunting for threats, Managed XDR automatically links detected TTPs, IoCs, and malware with threat actors and provides insight into how they conduct attacks. These insights help teams attribute threats and identify false positives.

Yes, Group-IB provides a range of out-of-the-box integrations with popular solutions such as SIEM. Flexible APIs are also available, enabling Managed XDR to integrate with any 3rd party tool, including custom-built dashboards.

It depends on the job you need done. SIEM is a control tower for log management, correlation, and compliance. XDR is a response engine that ingests richer telemetry (endpoint, network, identity, cloud), correlates automatically, and acts, often without waiting for an analyst.

If your priority is centralized logging, audit trails, regulatory reporting, and custom correlation across many systems, SIEM is the backbone. It excels at long-term retention, ad-hoc investigations, and “single source of truth” compliance use cases. You’ll still need high-quality detections and integrations, but SIEM provides the data fabric and governance.
A simple rule of thumb

Choose SIEM-first if your pain is compliance, retention, and multi-source log correlation, and you have strong in-house detection engineering.

Choose XDR-first if your pain points are alert fatigue and slow containment, and you need out-of-the-box detections plus orchestrated responses across endpoints and the cloud.

No. A firewall is a control point that enforces traffic policy at a boundary (allow/deny). XDR (Extended Detection & Response) is a detection-and-response layer that sits above many controls, firewalls included, to collect, correlate, and act across your environment.

How they work together

XDR ingests firewall alerts and flow data, combines it with endpoint process trees, DNS queries, OAuth grants, and cloud audit logs, then decides whether an event is an isolated blip or part of an attack chain. If it’s the latter, XDR can push new block rules to the firewall, quarantine endpoints, and open an incident with full context.

Email is the central part of communication in an organization, making it an attractive attack surface for cybercriminals. As many users continue to fall for email scams, information technology officers must leverage a layered approach with multiple defenses to ensure robust business email security and stay ahead of evolving criminal tricks. The following are common attacks that compromise email security for businesses.

1. Fraud

Implementing strong enterprise email security measures can help avoid email fraud schemes targeting individuals and organizations. Through sophisticated deception, fraudsters craft emails to manipulate recipients into taking detrimental actions. Criminals impersonate trusted authority figures and exploit human psychological weaknesses to make urgent demands.

2. Malware

Emails are often an ideal channel for cybercriminals to take control of an organization’s systems by sending URLs or malicious links that contain malware to infiltrate and access sensitive data.

The costly result is damaging a system, encrypting other essential files, and demanding a ransom to restore, which can halt operations. Installing antivirus software on your employees’ devices helps protect the company’s email system and data from malicious attachments and links.

3. Phishing

Most business email security breaches result from phishing attacks. Through phishing emails, employees click links and download infectious attachments, enabling cybercriminals to steal credentials that facilitate deep network intrusions.

4. Email interception

Criminals gain unauthorized access to a personal or business email account, allowing them to impersonate the account owner. They then spy on messages, read sensitive information, and collect confidential data, business plans, financial information, intellectual property, and personal details.

5. Account takeover

Without proper email security, businesses are vulnerable to unauthorized access to email accounts through stolen credentials obtained from the dark web, password cracking, malware, and other compromised email security practices.

The motivations are typically financial gain, obtaining valuable private data for misuse, and leveraging compromised accounts to spread their cybercrimes anonymously for profit.

Use Group-IB’s simple self-assessment tool to identify potential weaknesses in your current email security.

Most cloud-based email solutions use sandboxes with generic images, traffic routing, usernames, and other parameters that attackers can easily circumvent. Business Email Protection uses highly customizable virtual machines that appear to attackers as real environments.

Group-IB Business Email Protection solution also analyzes objects that may change their state over time, blocking them if they become malicious.

Business Email Protection can be set up in minutes; a cloud tenant is automatically created after your trial request is approved. Integration is very simple and implemented as a gateway solution. Simply configure your domain name, and Business Email Protection will start providing protection the moment DNS records are updated.

To further improve detection and response, Group-IB supports API-level integration between Business Email Protection and popular productivity tools such as G Suite and Office 365.

To provide flexibility, Business Email Protection can be deployed in the cloud or on-premises to secure email services hosted in any location.

To deliver cutting-edge email protection in accordance with local regulations, Group-IB Business Email Protection is available in four different regions:

• European Union (Germany)
• MEA (UAE)
• APAC (Singapore)
• North America (USA)

Business Email Protection is a full-featured corporate email security solution that includes the following protection tracks:

• Phishing prevention
• Business Email Compromise detection
• AV-attachment scanning
• Malware detonation
• Spam filtering
• Policy-based content filtering
• Email history and meta logs collection
• Post-delivery protection

No, our solution only processes hashed or encrypted user IDs and session IDs that cannot be associated with an individual.

Group-IB adopts a serious approach to enforcing personal data protection in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

To comply with GDPR requirements, Group-IB takes the necessary organizational and technical measures to develop, maintain, and provide the Fraud Protection solution.

The legitimate interests of a controller (in accordance with Article 6 and Recital 47 of the EU GDPR) constitute a legal basis for the processing of data subjects’ personal data when using the Fraud Protection solution.

To protect your websites, simply add our Web Snippet to your site. The Web Snippet is a client module built into the protected application, and from the moment the first page of the application is loaded, it transmits indicators of compromise, the user’s behavioral characteristics, and the environment in which the application is running to the server-side of the Fraud Protection.

To protect your mobile application(s), add our SDK. Integrating the Mobile SDK into a mobile application does not require changing the application’s logic.

The Mobile SDK is a client module built into the protected mobile application. From the moment the application is loaded, it transmits indicators of compromise, the user’s behavioral characteristics, and the environment in which the application is running to the server-side of the Fraud Protection platform.

The Mobile SDK does not transfer sensitive banking information, Personal Identifiable Information, or other confidential data. The customer can independently specify the content and type of the transferred data when integrating the SDK into the mobile application.

The Fraud Protection solution can integrate into any Risk Management Platform that uses API. We can provide APIs for Pull and Push modes.

Regulators are recognizing that fraud prevention requires collaboration. The UK’s Payment Systems Regulator mandates data sharing to prevent APP scams, Singapore’s MAS launched COSMIC for collaborative defense, and the EU’s proposed PSD3 includes requirements for sharing fraud information. The Cyber Fraud Intelligence Platform helps institutions meet these emerging requirements while maintaining GDPR compliance.

Sensitive identifiers never leave your environment. Distributed Tokenization generates irreversible tokens that can be safely shared and analyzed.

Yes. Its microservice architecture integrates seamlessly with case management, risk engines, and transaction monitoring tools. It is highly customizable, allowing institutions to tailor workflows, risk rules, and integrations to their operational and regulatory needs. There is no need to replace or rebuild your infrastructure.

No. The Cyber Fraud Intelligence Platform is fully data-agnostic and adapts to new fraud schemes without changing its core infrastructure. Each participant runs a Cyber Fraud Intelligence Platform Connector in its secure environment, which can be configured to process new data types, such as IP addresses, device IDs, or shipping details.

This flexibility allows the platform to evolve with emerging threats, from APP fraud to loan fraud or e-commerce chargebacks, while maintaining GDPR compliance.

Participants benefit immediately from Group-IB Threat Intelligence and fraud data that prepopulate risk context. Value grows as more institutions connect, but early adopters receive instant access to fraud data from more than 60 global intelligence sources.

No. The platform serves any participating entity: payment providers, e-commerce platforms, telecom operators, crypto services, regulators, and industry associations.

Institutions can start detecting repeat schemes and blocking mule accounts within weeks of deployment.

Yes. It is fully GDPR-compliant and designed for ISO 20022 data-sharing standards, with independent Veritas certification.

Access to broader intelligence enables detection of mule networks, APP fraud, and synthetic identities at early stages. This reduces fraud losses, lowers false positives, and enhances customer trust. It also helps position participating entities as industry leaders, influencing wider anti-fraud practices.

Regulators can host the Processing Hub under a custodianship model, gaining systemic oversight without ever handling raw data. This provides national or regional visibility into fraud trends while leaving day-to-day prevention to participating banks.

No, Purple Teaming includes a Red Team that simulates/emulates TTPs or a specific threat actor to test detection and Blue Team capabilities under the vendor’s Blue Team’s supervision. An Incident Response Readiness Assessment is designed to help prepare for cybersecurity incident response and incident management. Testing detection capabilities is out of scope.

There are different use cases to consider when carrying out an Incident Response Readiness Assessment:

• If it has never been done before.
• If you need a comprehensive action plan on how to strengthen cybersecurity within your company.
• If you need a report for your management board to help budget for cybersecurity solutions.
• If you have just created your own SOC.
• If you want an independent evaluation of cybersecurity incident response readiness and interoperation between the IT, security, and management teams.
• If a Managed Security Service Provider has onboarded you. We will highlight any blind spots that should be addressed.

No. If you know exactly what you want, you can request a specific component of the service.

It depends on the agreed scope of service and can therefore range from 2 business days to 1 month.

Incident Response Readiness Assessment is designed to measure and improve a client’s readiness across 15 different incident types, including ransomware, APTs, data leaks, and more. The scope of work is similar, given that security monitoring and recovery capabilities are also evaluated.

We have designed a custom scoring methodology that produces results based on several criteria. For instance, we measure the coverage and quality of telemetry as inputs.

Yes. We will determine whether you are collecting much more telemetry than is required to detect and respond to cybersecurity incidents.

Yes. We will require a basic understanding of your infrastructure, as we can advise on improvements to the IR team’s actions based on the security solutions you use and your departments’ names and roles. As a result, we will provide you with a list of issues and improvements for your playbooks.

Yes. We offer a tabletop exercise called the IR Game. It is powered by the web service developed by our Group-IB team and implements a game engine in which each game is an incident scenario based on in-the-wild cases our team has handled. IR Game is an instructor-led activity.

Each game consists of a specific number of moves. Every move has a new input and an open-text form to write your actions. The main goal is to develop the most effective IR plan, investigate the case, and remediate it. The game is open-book, so teams can consult their playbooks.

The game includes many scenarios and can therefore be easily adapted for either management or technical teams.

Yes. We can include a different course, but in such cases it will not be provided as part of this specific service.

NIST frames incident response as a “continuous cycle” designed to reduce impact and improve with every event: Preparation → Detection & Analysis → Containment & Eradication → Recovery. Here’s what each step really means in practice, and how to know you’re doing it well.

1. Preparation

Build the muscle before the crisis. Define roles (RACI), escalation paths, SLAs, evidence handling, and communications. Harden logging and retention, pre-stage tooling (EDR/XDR, forensics, SOAR), and maintain updated asset/identity inventories. Run tabletop and purple-team exercises; keep playbooks for ransomware, BEC, data exfiltration, and cloud compromise.

2. Detection & Analysis

Spot the abnormal and prove it matters. Triage alerts, correlate telemetry (endpoint, network, identity, cloud), and scope what’s affected: systems, identities, data, and dwell time.

Validate with forensics (memory, logs, malware detonation) and align observations to “MITRE ATT&CK” to understand attacker intent and next moves.

3. Containment & Eradication

Stop the bleeding, then remove the cause. Choose short-term containment (isolate hosts, disable accounts, block C2, geo/IP, revoke tokens) without tipping the actor if monitoring is still valuable.

Move to long-term containment (segmentation, password resets, conditional access) and eradication (malware removal, backdoor cleanup, patching misconfigurations, rotating keys).

4. Recovery

Restore safely and prove it. Rebuild from known-good baselines, reintroduce services in phases, and run heightened monitoring. Validate business processes, data integrity, and third-party connections before returning to BAU. Close with a lessons-learned session: what failed, what worked, which detections/playbooks or controls change now.