watchTowr, a provider of Preemptive Exposure Management solutions, has announced a significant reduction in its Rapid Reaction time from hours to minutes, utilizing a new AI-driven capability to protect customers from emerging vulnerabilities. This enhancement allows organizations to respond to threats at a speed previously unattainable, crucial given that threat actors can weaponize new vulnerabilities in as little as four hours.
The company’s platform, supported by its research, is designed to swiftly identify and reproduce emerging vulnerabilities, then build secure mechanisms to pinpoint exploitable systems for its clientele. This capacity is vital as sophisticated cyber attackers, ransomware gangs, and advanced persistent threats (APTs) aim to compromise networks before organizations can respond. The new AI-driven capabilities accelerate watchTowr’s Rapid Reaction process, converting raw threat intelligence into actionable insights about new threats within minutes.
Benjamin Harris, founder and CEO at watchTowr, commented on the impact of this speed. “Every time we enable our clients to remediate emerging, high-impact vulnerabilities before they are exploited in the wild, that is a breach that is prevented.” He emphasized the necessity for large organizations to detect emerging threats much faster than attackers can exploit them. “Because every minute counts, we’re now using AI to dramatically accelerate the speed of our Rapid Reaction capability by orders of magnitude.”
Borrowing concepts from threat hunting, watchTowr’s Rapid Reaction incorporates ‘hunts’ to help organizations assess their exposure to an emerging threat before it is exploited in the wild. This enables precise reactions based on proven exploitability and the ability to pinpoint affected systems, business units, and assets. watchTowr states it is the first to leverage AI in this manner to inform customers of their exposure through active testing and intelligence, powered by its Proactive Threat Intelligence capabilities.
The introduction of this AI-driven rapid reaction capability follows the recent launch of watchTowr’s Preemptive Exposure Management solution. This platform is tailored for Fortune 500 companies and critical infrastructure providers, integrating watchTowr’s Proactive Threat Intelligence with its External Attack Surface Management technology into a unified, AI-powered platform. This system autonomously provides security teams with the speed, confidence, and precision needed to outpace attackers. The watchTowr AI-driven Rapid Reaction capability is available immediately to all watchTowr customers.
