Praetorian – Solving the toughest cybersecurity problems through expertise and engineering

Today, cyber-attacks are no longer stopped by antivirus software or firewalls. The risk of cyber-attacks is constantly increasing and for companies and institutions it is no longer a question of “if” it will happen but rather “when”. This is why cyber security is of such great importance. By implementing security, businesses and individuals can protect themselves against the full range of cyber security threats outlined below, as well as the numerous others that exist. With cyber security, companies do not have to worry about unauthorized users accessing their network or data. It helps them protect both their end users and their employees. Even in those rare cases that security does not prevent an attack or breach, it improves the recovery time afterward. In addition companies will often notice that customers and developers are more confident in products that have strong cyber security solutions in place.

Praetorian is a cybersecurity solutions company offering unparalleled expertise to clients through software and services. Praetorian helps today's leading organizations solve complex cybersecurity problems across critical enterprise assets and product portfolios. From the Cloud to IoT, the company is bringing together the world's security expertise to solve the cybersecurity problem and secure the next-wave innovation. Praetorian's enthusiasm for security is tangible and is a major reason the company team stays together—another benefit to their clients who value having consistency in service delivery year after year.

Making the World a Safer and More Secure Place through Robust Product Suite

Chariot Identify: The rapid adoption of SaaS, Cloud, and DevOps technologies have created dynamic attack surfaces of constantly changing risks and blind spots. These technologies have expanded an organization's attack surface footprint and created a moving target by exponentially increasing the rate of change seen in modern digital environments as assets spin up, down, and move around. As attack surfaces grow and change dramatically, the rise in opportunistic attacks (such as ransomware) further exacerbates the problem. Chariot Identity continuously discovers Internet-facing assets and flagging security exposures that could lead to a compromise. As the world's most advanced attack surface discovery platform, Chariot provides continuous, comprehensive, and contextual assets discovery by coupling their attacker, zero knowledge perspective with defender, system knowledge understanding. This unique outside-in and in-side out approach draws on the adversarial expertise of their team and couples it with the major advantage that defenders have over attackers — environment knowledge.

Chariot Attack: When Chariot Attack is coupled with Chariot Identify, on-going testing is made affordable through asset discovery automation and targeted testing cycles that focus on environmental change.  The offensive operators carefully exploit the exposures to eliminate false positives, confirm risk, demonstrate impact, and execute post-compromise activities. By integrating with your cloud environments, source code managers, container registries, asset workloads, and ci/cd pipelines, Chariot is made aware of new assets in real-time, is able to query asset catalogs, and can contextualize the relationships between assets. The team then provides actionable recommendations for mitigation and works closely with your team through the remediation process including retesting efforts.

Chariot Detect: The Chariot Detect module enables continuous validation of your detection and response controls to uncover gaps in your cyber program’s situational awareness. Chariot Detect benchmarks against MITRE ATT&CK®, the globally recognized knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations. Chariot Detect also incorporates the red team's cutting edge research and development to maintain a comprehensive, state-of-the-art list of attack techniques. When Chariot Detect is coupled with Chariot Attack, the security team draws on the nuanced attack patterns from continuous red team operations and demonstrated compromises against your organization to generate custom sigma rules that shore-up gaps in detection and response capabilities.

Chariot Prevent: Gain the upper-hand over attackers by partnering with the industry's leading offensive security service provider. Praetorian puts you back on the offensive by combining security expertise with technology automation to continuously focus and improve your defensive investments. Chariot Prevent ensure security standards are adopted by inserting policies into the development lifecycle to prevent future occurrences of the same vulnerabilities from returning. Leveraging automation through Policy as Code they can codify and integrate security requirements into the infrastructure provisioning processes to prevent the same security issue from ever reaching production again.

The Leader Upfront

Nathan Sportsman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Praetorian. He is responsible for championing the vision, maintaining the culture, and setting the direction of the company. Prior to founding Praetorian, Nathan worked in various technical roles at industry-leading companies such as Sun Microsystems, Symantec, and McAfee. His experience has cross cut most industry sectors, and customers have ranged from Wall Street and Silicon Valley to government intelligence agencies and renowned educational institutions. Nationally recognized as a leader in the cybersecurity field, Nathan is a frequent public speaker, is a contributing author to the world’s best-selling computer security book, Hacking Exposed, is a U.S. patent holder, and has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin (nationally ranked #5 for Computer Science and Engineering).

Nathan holds a BS in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

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