Global Resilience Federation Partners with BSS Unit to Provide ISAC Threat Hunting Platform, Custom Industrial ICS-Honeypots to Members

Herndon, VA, USA – June 30, 2020- Global Resilience Federation (GRF) has partnered with BSS Unit to provide its Cyber Intel Matrix (CIM) suite of products to members, offering them threat intelligence tools and the largest worldwide honey net. GRF analysts will also leverage CIM to enrich security products for GRF affiliated sharing communities.

“I’m glad to welcome BSS Unit as a partner,” said GRF President Mark Orsi. “BSS Unit brings a new group of tools to the cross-sector community we support, including honeypots, and compelling capabilities for malware detonation, intel aggregation and Dark Web analysis.”

Mutual defense on a global scale has never been more urgent. Hackers are not only growing more sophisticated, but the global pandemic has weakened companies’ resilience in many respects. BSS Unit has seen more than 26 million attempted attacks on its global honey net system since the pandemic began, with attacks against corporate and critical infrastructure networks at an all-time high. The partnership enables GRF analysts and interested members to gather intelligence and monitor emerging threats.

“We are thrilled to partner with GRF and its global mission, to further serve ISACs and ISAOs and their members. We have come to know first hand the needs of these sharing communities,” said Andras Patkai, CEO of BSS Unit. “Our global honey net has an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) focus, so our partnership, both as a toolkit for GRF, and as a service for GRF members, is a perfect fit with their extensive work among critical infrastructure sectors.”

BSS Unit offers a variety of products and services, from Exposure Tests, Remote Workforce Assessments, and Shield Services for the new remote workforce, to full throttle ICS-driven CTI, ISAC-CTI feeds, Entity Monitoring, Threat Hunting, and customized honey nets called BlackPots. See the CIM Technical Guide for a full list of products and services.

GRF members are able to access a free personal Exposure Test to check vulnerability, as well as a discount on all CIM products and services through the GRF Alliance Program. Special non-profit pricing also applies for affiliated member ISACs.

“BSS Unit’s discounted access to its CIM suite will allow interested GRF members to take their security from a purely prevention-based posture to one of active defense,” added Orsi.

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About GRF
Global Resilience Federation (GRF) is a non-profit hub and integrator for support, analysis, and cross-sector intelligence exchange among information sharing and analysis centers (ISACs), organizations (ISAOs), and computer emergency readiness/response teams (CERTs). GRF’s mission is to help assure the resilience of critical and vital infrastructure against threats that could significantly impact the orderly functioning of the global economy and general safety of the public. GRF members include Financial Services ISAC, Retail ISAO, Legal Services ISAO, Energy Analytic Security Exchange, Health ISAC, Professional Services Information Exchange, Oil and Natural Gas ISAC, Downstream Natural Gas ISAC, and Operational Technology ISAC. Learn more at www.GRF.org, by visiting @GRFederation on Twitter or Global Resilience Federation on LinkedIn. Questions may be directed to Patrick McGlone at pmcglone@grf.org

About BSS UNIT, CTI Division
Our company develops CTI (Cyber Threat Intelligence) solutions with an ICS (Industrial Control System) focus. In 2019, our cornerstone product, Cyber Intel Matrix (CIM), won the Hungarian ITBusiness Awards grand prize for Product Development. With our 100 percent proprietary solutions, we provide an effective answer to emerging CTI challenges, in both industrial and critical infrastructure environments. A large part of the effectiveness is our emphasis on threat hunting activities. For software development and high level information gathering, our team consists of talented young people, combined with veterans of either software development, or intelligence. Please visit us at BSSUNIT.com to discover our cyber security products, as well as our no-code workflow and collaboration platform, DoTo. Questions may be directed to Rivka Tadjer at rivka@axalton.com.