Pentagon Partners With GreyNoise to Investigate Internet Scans

guest · Nov 23, 2021

Pentagon Partners With GreyNoise to Investigate Internet Scans
November 23, 2021
https://www.darkreading.com/emergin...-with-greynoise-to-investigate-internet-scans

The Department of Defense recently awarded GreyNoise Intelligence a potential 5-year $30 million contract to help the agency identify and understand internet-wide scan and attack activity. The contract extends the work GreyNoise has already been doing with the Defense Innovation Unit since March.

Considering every machine on the Internet is bombarded by network requests and other types of communication activity, the Internet is a noisy place. However, only some of the traffic would be considered legitimately part of a transaction or in response to some kind of application activity. That doesn’t mean the rest of the traffic is bad — most of it is just junk, actually.
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Threat actors may be scanning the internet to discover what ports are open or what services may be running. Or it could be a routine scan by a business application.

That is where GreyNoise shines. The company’s internet-side sensor network collects scan data and analyzes the origins in order to give analysts the context for the scans.
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Fewer Alerts, More Time Saved
Analysts are faced with hundreds of alerts a day, and if they are spending their time investigating alerts that aren’t important, that is time the analyst is not noticing, or responding to, an actual targeted attack.

GreyNoise claims customers reduce their alert loads by 25% — in many cases, the reduction can be as high as 38%, Morris says.
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