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Cyber Threat Intelligence · External Exposure Monitoring

Find the threats targeting your business before they land.

Most external threats are visible somewhere before they hit your environment: leaked credentials in underground marketplaces, lookalike domains being registered, executive names surfacing in phishing campaigns, brand impersonation pages going live. Armour Cybersecurity monitors all of it, validates what matters, and escalates the findings that require action so you can respond before exposure becomes incident.

What This Is

Continuous visibility into what attackers are doing about you.

Cyber Threat Intelligence is the structured collection, validation, and reporting of external threat activity relevant to your organization. Where security tools watch your internal environment, CTI watches the open web, the dark web, credential marketplaces, paste sites, underground forums, and the infrastructure attackers use to stage campaigns. The work surfaces credential leaks, brand impersonation, executive exposure, suspicious domain registrations, and threat actor mentions before they become incidents.

Armour Cybersecurity delivers this as a two-phase engagement. Phase one is platform deployment and configuration: we onboard the monitoring profile (domains, brands, executives, keywords, IP ranges, third parties), tune alert criteria, and establish escalation workflows. Phase two is the ongoing operation: our analysts review every alert, filter noise, validate findings, escalate the ones that matter, and deliver monthly reporting that translates threat activity into business risk language.

The result is a sustainable CTI capability that supports early detection, brand protection, executive risk visibility, incident response readiness, and the board-level reporting that proves your security program sees beyond its own perimeter.

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Monitoring areas covered including credential exposure, brand abuse, dark web mentions, phishing, and executive risk.
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Engagement phases: tool deployment and configuration, then ongoing operations with analyst-led triage and reporting.
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Continuous monitoring of the configured CTI sources with analyst review and high-priority escalation when findings warrant it.
The Reality

Why most organizations only learn about threats after the damage is done.

Without structured external monitoring, the first signal of a credential leak, brand impersonation, or targeted campaign is usually the breach, the fraud attempt, or the customer complaint. By then the response is reactive and the window for proactive action has already closed.

Without active CTI

  • Credential dumps containing corporate email addresses go undetected for months.
  • Lookalike domains register and operationalize phishing campaigns before anyone notices.
  • Brand impersonation pages target customers without internal awareness.
  • Executive names surface in social engineering campaigns with no early warning.
  • Dark web mentions of company data, projects, or systems pass without review.
  • Sensitive files, credentials, or source code leak to public repositories unmonitored.
  • Sector-specific threat campaigns hit peer companies first with no advance warning.

With Armour Cybersecurity CTI

  • Credential exposure surfaced immediately with affected accounts identified for action.
  • Lookalike and typo-squatting domains flagged at registration for takedown consideration.
  • Brand impersonation detected and escalated for legal and security response.
  • Executive and VIP exposure monitored continuously with high-priority alert workflow.
  • Dark web and underground mentions validated and contextualized by trained analysts.
  • Data leakage indicators surfaced from paste sites, code repositories, and cloud exposure.
  • Industry threat intelligence delivered monthly with sector-specific context.
Our CTI Services

Coverage across every channel attackers use against you.

Engage individual monitoring areas or a coordinated full CTI program. Every service is delivered against the same standardized methodology so findings compose cleanly into a unified picture of external exposure.

01 / DOMAINS

Domain & Brand Monitoring

Monitoring of official domains, lookalike domains, typo-squatting, homoglyph attacks, fraudulent websites, and brand impersonation across the public internet and DNS registration activity.

02 / CREDENTIALS

Credential Exposure Monitoring

Detection of exposed employee credentials, leaked passwords, corporate email addresses, and account exposure across credential marketplaces, breach databases, and underground sources.

03 / DARK WEB

Dark Web & Underground Mentions

Monitoring for company name, domains, brands, executives, products, and exposed data across available dark web forums, marketplaces, and threat actor communications.

04 / ATTACK SURFACE

External Attack Surface Indicators

Monitoring of exposed domains, subdomains, IP ranges, services, certificates, and cloud assets that contribute to external attack surface and visibility to potential attackers.

05 / PHISHING

Phishing & Impersonation Detection

Monitoring of suspicious domains, fake login pages, phishing kits, brand impersonation campaigns, and the infrastructure attackers use to target your customers and employees.

06 / EXECUTIVES

Executive & VIP Exposure

Monitoring of executive names, board members, senior leadership, and high-risk personnel for public exposure that could support targeted social engineering or fraud campaigns.

07 / DATA LEAKAGE

Data Leakage & Sensitive Keywords

Monitoring of sensitive keywords, project names, internal terminology, source code references, and confidential document indicators across public exposure channels.

08 / THIRD PARTY

Third-Party & Supply Chain Mentions

Monitoring of selected vendors, partners, and suppliers for threat activity that may present indirect exposure to your organization through the supply chain.

09 / INDUSTRY

Industry & Geographic Intelligence

Continuous monitoring of sector-specific and region-specific threat activity, including campaigns targeting peer organizations and emerging risks in your operating environment.

Who This Is For

Built for organizations whose risk extends beyond their perimeter.

Mature security programs

Organizations with established SOC capability needing external visibility that internal tooling cannot provide. CTI complements detection and response with proactive intelligence.

Brand-sensitive businesses

Financial services, retail, hospitality, and consumer-facing brands where impersonation, phishing, and reputational attacks materially affect customer trust and revenue.

Companies with high-value executives

Organizations whose senior leadership, board members, or principals face targeted exposure from public information, social engineering campaigns, or sophisticated threat actors.

Regulated industries and high-value targets

Financial services, healthcare, energy, government supply chain, and high-value intellectual property businesses operating under continuous adversarial interest.

Our Methodology

A six-phase engagement built on disciplined consulting practice.

Every Armour Cybersecurity CTI engagement follows the same standardized phases. The discipline is what turns alert noise into validated, actionable intelligence your team can use to reduce exposure.

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Engagement Kickoff & Monitoring Profile Design

Confirm CTI objectives, identify stakeholders across security, IT, legal, communications, and executive teams, and design the monitoring profile covering domains, brands, executives, keywords, IP ranges, and third parties.

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CTI Platform Deployment & Configuration

Deploy the CTI platform, configure tenant access, establish administrative and analyst roles, configure baseline notification channels, and confirm modules in scope for the engagement.

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Alerting, Severity & Escalation Setup

Define alert severity levels, establish escalation criteria based on business impact and confidence, configure alert routing, and document escalation workflows for security, IT, legal, communications, and executive stakeholders.

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Continuous Monitoring & Analyst Triage

Ongoing monitoring of configured sources, analyst review of every generated alert, false positive filtering, classification by severity and business impact, and documented analyst notes on every finding.

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Validation, Escalation & Remediation Guidance

Validate critical findings through contextual analysis, escalate high-priority items per the agreed model, and deliver practical remediation guidance covering credential resets, domain takedowns, security control adjustments, and incident response handoff.

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Reporting & Continuous Tuning

Deliver monthly CTI operations reports and executive-level threat intelligence summaries, continuously tune monitoring profiles to reduce false positives, and refine alert criteria based on stakeholder feedback.

What You Receive

Outputs your SOC, your executives, and your legal team can all use.

Every deliverable is structured for direct use by your security operations team, your executive leadership, your legal and communications teams, and your external auditors when applicable.

CTI Monitoring Profile

Documented profile of all monitored entities including domains, brands, executives, keywords, IP ranges, third parties, and the alert criteria applied to each.

Alert Severity & Escalation Matrix

Documented severity model, escalation criteria, response expectations by finding type, and notification routing for security, IT, legal, communications, and executive stakeholders.

Monthly CTI Operations Report

Comprehensive monthly report covering key findings, credential exposure, brand abuse, suspicious domains, dark web mentions, external exposure, and remediation status.

Executive Threat Intelligence Summary

Board-ready summary of top cyber risks, sector threat activity, high-risk findings, business impact assessment, and emerging priorities for executive consumption.

High-Priority Alert Notifications

Real-time notifications for critical findings including affected assets, confidence level, business impact, and recommended response actions for immediate handling.

Credential Exposure Reports

Detailed reports of credential exposure findings with affected accounts, source documentation, recommended remediation, and remediation status tracking.

Brand Abuse & Phishing Summaries

Documented analysis of brand impersonation activity, phishing infrastructure, suspicious domains, and recommended takedown or legal response actions.

CTI Findings & Remediation Tracker

Living register of all validated findings with status, ownership, remediation actions taken, and residual risk for ongoing program visibility.

Monitoring Profile Tuning Reports

Periodic reports documenting profile adjustments, new keywords added, false positive removal, and the continuous improvement applied to the program over time.

Why Armour Cybersecurity

The numbers behind the work.

Founded by military intelligence veterans with senior advisors from PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, EY, and Mandiant. The track record reflects the discipline.

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Clients Served

Organizations across finance, healthcare, technology, energy, legal, and government trust Armour Cybersecurity to protect what matters.

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Client Retention Rate

Long-term engagements built on consistent quality, predictable delivery, and consulting relationships that compound in value over time.

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Industries · Worldwide Reach

Cross-sector experience spanning every major regulated industry, with operations supporting clients across North America, Latin America, and beyond.

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Cybersecurity Technology Solutions

A vetted catalogue of technology partnerships and proprietary methods deployed in support of every engagement.

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Protecting What Matters.
Frequently Asked

Cyber Threat Intelligence questions, answered directly.

How is CTI different from threat hunting?
Threat hunting searches inside your environment for evidence of attackers already operating there. CTI watches outside your environment for indicators of threats targeting you: leaked credentials, lookalike domains, brand impersonation, dark web mentions, and similar external exposure. Both are useful and they answer different questions. Many organizations engage us for both, with CTI feeding intelligence into hunting hypotheses and hunting validating whether CTI findings represent active compromise.
What does the monitoring profile cover?
Your monitoring profile is built during onboarding and typically includes corporate and subsidiary domains, email domains, public IP ranges, brand names, product names, executive names, board members, key vendors, sensitive project names, and industry-specific keywords. We tune the profile during the engagement to reduce false positives and surface the most relevant intelligence.
How quickly will we be notified of critical findings?
The escalation matrix is defined during onboarding. Critical findings such as valid corporate credentials in fresh credential dumps, active phishing pages impersonating your brand, or credible dark web claims involving your data are escalated immediately under the agreed workflow. Lower-severity findings are batched into the monthly report or weekly summary depending on cadence.
Who reviews the alerts?
Every alert is reviewed by an Armour Cybersecurity analyst. We do not pass raw platform output through to the client. Analysts filter false positives, validate severity, add contextual analysis, and document recommended response actions. This is the core difference between CTI as a service and access to a CTI platform: the analyst layer turns platform noise into actionable intelligence.
Can findings be escalated into incident response?
Yes. CTI findings that indicate active compromise, credible breach claims, or imminent threat to the business escalate directly into incident response workflows under pre-agreed procedures. Initial triage and containment guidance is included as part of the engagement; full incident response is a separate scope when needed.
How does the engagement scale as our footprint grows?
Monitoring profiles are updated regularly to reflect new brands, products, executives, domains, or third parties. Acquisitions, new product launches, executive changes, and entries into new markets are all triggers for profile updates. We typically review and tune the profile quarterly with ad-hoc adjustments as material events occur.
Will CTI replace our security tools or SOC?
No, CTI complements them. Security tools watch your environment, SOC analysts respond to alerts from those tools, and CTI watches the external landscape that neither can see. CTI findings often feed into SOC workflows as new indicators to monitor, new accounts to reset, or new domains to block. The capabilities reinforce each other rather than overlap.
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