Last month Cartersville, GA-based BorderHawk CyberSecurity announced the general availability of its Klieglight Cyber Media platform, which utilizes a proprietary methodology to analyze public information across social media and identify cyber threat activity and act as an early warning system for cyber attacks.
Klieglight, which was in limited availability since February, has already been used to recognize potential threats to an industrial operation. The platform is named after the military term that was a reporting vehicle used to forward time-sensitive SIGINT technical information to NSCO, SIGINT producers and Cyrpotologica Support Groups.
“One of the most important facets of cyber incident management is the ability to gather intelligence in preparation for potential malicious activities,” said Steve Akridge, chief executive officer of BorderHawk.
“In the past, this has been a difficult task, but with the emergence of social media and new internet analytical tools, more organizations have the resources to conduct effective information gathering,” added Akridge, who served as the first chief security officer for the state of Georgia and who also spent 20 years in the…
