Brookcourt Solutions

Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) - Threat Connect

The ThreatConnect Platform provides threat intelligence, security operations, incident response, and security management. Benefit from your entire team and knowledge in one place, putting security data in context with intelligence and analytics, process consistency with playbooks, workflows with centralized record management, measuring organisational effectiveness via cross-platform analytics and customizable dashboards.

Features

• Open Source Feeds
• Ingest Premium Feeds
• Access to CAL™ Data
• TAXII Server
• ThreatConnect Intelligence Source
• Custom Dashboards
• Automated Email Import
• Manage Incidents and Tasks
• Orchestration
• Custom Indicator Types

Benefits

• Optimise operations by using orchestration and automated security processes
• Get ahead of cyber attacks by leveraging threat intelligence
• Gather artifacts from internal cases/incidents to turn into intel
• Speed up the process for determining relevancy of IOCs
• Prioritize security operations on business impact, threat landscape, and vulnerabilities
• Data enrichment that ties into SecOps specific tools (bi-directional)
• Communication and collaboration tools for within the Security Operations Team
• Maintain a chain of evidence or timelines of events
• Time-saving when collecting artifacts from various sources
• Measure/report MTTR, MTTD, and other KPIs of performance

£115,000 a transaction

• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

850317349346165

Contact

Phil Higgins
01737 886111
contact@brookcourtsolutions.com

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
• What software services is the service an extension to: The Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) is an technology discipline that helps organisations aggregate, correlate, and analyse threat data from multiple sources in real time to support defensive actions.
• Cloud deployment model:
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Community cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
• Service constraints: None
• System requirements: For Cloud customers, no requirements needed.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: 24/7
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: No
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: Standard Service and Support: Includes generally available patches and fixes as well as generally available product upgrades.; Enhanced Service and Support: Includes generally available patches and fixes as well as generally available product upgrades.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Login to the platform
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• End-of-contract data extraction: API or export
• End-of-contract process: Users no longer have access to the platform

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: Mobile is optimised for use.
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Description of service interface: The Service interface for the Threat Connect TIP is the Single Source of Truth for Intelligence & Processes Enables the refinement of relevant data from cases, response engagements, threat investigations, shared communities, and external vendors into intelligence suitable for any analyst’s decision-making and leverages that newly created intelligence to inform decisions across the security team. It is customisable at the analysts and company level.
• Accessibility standards: None or don’t know
• Description of accessibility: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Level A (Yes), Level AA (yes) and revised Section 508 standards as published by the U.S. Access Board in the Federal Register on January 18th, 2019.
• Accessibility testing: Testing involved use of native platform accessibility features supplemented with manual inspection of Accessibility API output.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: The ThreatConnect API allows users to access ThreatConnect data progamatically through HTTP queries and to obtain structured results via JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). This allows for integration with other products to enhance the analytical process and to employ the data as the user sees fit. ; The number of Full Users is dependent on the purchased subscription package. Read Only and Commenter users are unlimited.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
• API sandbox or test environment: Yes
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: The ThreatConnect Platform provides the ability to automate the aggregation of threat intelligence sources in one place, freeing the team from the mundane task of data collection so they can focus on analysis and response. Building on the data aggregation capabilities, ThreatConnect integrates with a variety of analysis tools and services to further streamline and automate the team’s work. ThreatConnect’s application programming interface (API) allows the teams to create customizations of the Platform that fit their processes and use cases. Creating custom dashboard is limited to Dedicated Cloud deployment.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: We scale the system horizontally to deal with large user bases.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Sample report upon request
• Reporting types:
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: ThreatConnect

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations: Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: No
• Datacentre security standards: Managed by a third party
• Penetration testing frequency: Less than once a year
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Other
• Other data at rest protection approach: Some data such as passwords are encrypted at rest; not the larger data set
• Data sanitisation process: No
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: API or export
• Data export formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data export formats:
  • JSON
  • XML
• Data import formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data import formats:
  • JSON
  • XML

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: ThreatConnect will use commercially reasonable efforts to make; ThreatConnect’s products available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage (defined below) of at least 99.8%, in each case during any monthly cycle (the “Service Commitment”).
• Approach to resilience: Available on request.
• Outage reporting: Notification thresholds and destinations are generally based on contractual requirements.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication: 2-factor authentication
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Access requires authentication. Internal access is restricted to only using multifactor authentication from trusted sources.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: User-defined
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• How long system logs are stored for: User-defined

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: DEKRA
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 31/07/2021
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: The scope ISMS certified is "Configuration, management, support, and delivery activities related to cloud systems supported by RDS"
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: No
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • AICPA SOC 2
  • NIST National Vulnerability

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: Certified ISO27001:2013 policies.

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: Changes are categorized by risk of implementation and risk of non implementation. Categorization determines the workflow for an approval, which may require approval from both technical and security management. Changes are validated uponc ompletion and include rollback guidance.
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: Vulnerability severity is based on a CVSS v3 scoring and patched within 7, 30, and 90 days for critical, high, and medium vulnerabilities, respectively. Vulnerabilities are identified through many avenues, including scanning of files, libraries, images, containers and third-party penetraion tests.
• Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
• Protective monitoring approach: Incidents are categorized by both systems affected type of incident. The former determines the makeup of the response team, and the latter determines the method of management.
• Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Incident management approach: In line with our ISO27001:2013 certification, incidents are categorized by both systems affected type of incident. The former determines the makeup of the response team, and the latter determines the method of management.

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Social Value

• Fighting climate change:

  Fighting climate change

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• Covid-19 recovery:

  Covid-19 recovery

  On Request
• Tackling economic inequality:

  Tackling economic inequality

  On Request
• Equal opportunity:

  Equal opportunity

  On Request
• Wellbeing:

  Wellbeing

  On Request

Pricing

• Price: £115,000 a transaction
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: Threat Connect Open is a completely free way for individual researchers to get started with threat intelligence. While this is not a trial of the full platform, Threat Connect Open allows you to see and share open source threat data, with support and validation from our free community.
• Link to free trial: https://threatconnect.com/free/

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at contact@brookcourtsolutions.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.