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Smarter Persistent CyberSecurity Assessment (SCCA) Agents:

VerifiedThreat has a radically different approach and fights fire with fire. We constantly use Red Team attack tactics to verify every threat with AI-driven Red Team agents, delivering proof, not noise.

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A System Integrator Opportunity with VerifiedThreat:

Enterprises are drowning in security alerts. CISOs report wasted time, missed risks, and alert fatigue as overlapping tools generate more noise than insight. This challenge presents a unique opportunity for System Integrators (SIs): to deliver proof-based, always-on cybersecurity services that reduce risk and restore client confidence. For SIs, VerifiedThreat is more than a product — it’s a platform for new revenue streams, managed services, and client differentiation.

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Attackers extensively use bots and AI tools to find vulnerabilities.

● They are scanning ALL your infrastructure - and likely you’re under constant low grade reconnaissance attacks constantly.

● Once they find a vulnerability, other bots take over and exploit the weakness.

● They often find just the smallest vulnerabilities to exploit overtime with much larger coordinated attacks.

● Periodic Pen-testing leaves gaps.

● GenAI and malicious bots are changing the attack vectors

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Find out how VerifiedThreat's Continual Assessment Agents can fight fire with fire and give you continual threat vulnerability data to stop the attacks.

Cybersecurity Technology Consulting Client.

Xepps is a web consulting business specialising in helping start-up companies grow with fractional senior leadership resources. 

Managing Director Kristian Epps recently took a start-up company from almost zero internal processes through to successful completion of ISO 27001.

The process revealed large gaps in the startup’s existing process and was a real challenge to implement.

Why Verified Threat?

The company selected VerifiedThreat because it gave the company a powerful way of providing on-going threat intelligence, continual external based assessments and reports, which could map directly into their existing risk ledger set-up. 

The company had good success with a training portal that took the pain of ISO 27001 reporting and evidential proof needed to comply with the standard. Managing Director Kristian Epps said: 

“Demonstrating that you have the latest threat intelligence,  proving that you’re not only reading, but applying the threat intel is not an easy task. We loved VerifiedThreat’s dynamic intelligence, that wasn’t some generic report, but actually demonstrated real threat intelligence on our platforms, with the verified proof of the vulnerability.“

Epps continued:

“Signing into a portal with automated threat intelligence, more than ticked the box, it made the threat data demonstrable and useful. Sticking threat data into a CSV just means the data dies. It’s now in the portal, it's live, it's useful, and it provides the third-party validation needed. “ 

Results

• Improved Threat Intelligence: Automating the threat intelligence and applying it to the company’s risk profile saved a lot of manual effort, and was a painless way to incorporate true risk threat data. 
• Improved Confidence: External investors board and leadership team gained from improved confidence that the company wasn’t just paying lip service to threat detection, but had mature systems and processes in place to ensure continuous monitoring and compliance..
• Operational Efficiency: Senior staff had to spend last time on manual work and compiling threat data and risk register items. Using the portal greatly simplified the process.

Impact

The major impacts are summarised below:

• Technical: Continuous visibility, faster identification of real-world vulnerabilities, and structured prioritisation for remediation.
• Business: Greater confidence for investors, board and senior leadership team. Ensured better protection of sensitive client data and confidence for eco-system partners.

"It’s one thing to have knowledge of a possible threat, but it’s a real game changer to be able to show what you are doing to track and mitigate the threat. VerifiedThreat made our reporting useful and directly actionable - it would have taken a lot of manual effort to keep the threat intelligence up-to-date and make it useful."

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Search Magic Ecommerce API Service.

It was the run-up to the incredibly busy Black Friday season and Your Store Wizards’ developer Brett Bittke realized something strange was happening to his company’s popular search enhancement application, Search Magic.

For ecommerce sites, a tool like Search Magic makes a huge difference to sales by accelerating the speed at which consumers can find products. Suggested products appear automagically as users type in the search box, spelling errors are corrected, while the application can even resolve unusual synonyms or words to the correct product.

Now, after many years of flawless performance, the application had slowed to a crawl for its 200 customers as it experienced what looked like a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the tool’s API. 

“We were getting traffic coming in from large numbers of mobile phones in different locations with all sorts of IP addresses. It was a constant pain that at times was knocking down our servers,”

says Your Store Wizards developer, Brett Bittke. The company responded by increasing the number of servers but throwing horsepower at the problem made no difference. The rogue traffic simply scaled to consume those additional resources as well, costing the company in additional hosting and CPU resources, configuration and server maintenance.

It looked like a DoS but the fact that the traffic was emanating from what appeared to be legitimate mobile phone user agents was a clue they’d met a new enemy that has grown in recent times from occasional nuisance to major business hazard – price scraping and product surveillance bots. 

Today’s ecommerce sites are afflicted by all manner of bots with different purposes, but price scrapers are among the most troublesome. Their aim is to monitor a competitor’s prices on a 24x7 basis with a view to understanding their economic model in detail. 

Normally, price scrapers can be blocked by a few tweaks to the WAF which is why more sophisticated bots have started using large numbers of residential IPs - genuine home PCs and mobiles - to make blocking difficult or impossible without risking false positives.

The traffic slowing Search Magic was to an API, which because it is always automated makes distinguishing legitimate traffic from rogue especially difficult. The traditional WAF approach struggles to defend against this type of threat, while user CAPTCHAS won’t work at all. 

Why Verified Threat?

The company selected VerifiedThreat to provide constant vigilance and support for new attack threats and techniques. Ecommerce services are constantly subject to novel attacks.  “We were using Cloudflare’s general bot protection, but this wasn’t working,” comments Bittke. “We couldn’t risk blocking users, or we might end up blocking real customers.” The alternative was to subscribe to Cloudflare’s enterprise bot service, but this way out of their price range. 

Results

• The Search Magic API quickly became available to the company’s customers again and the developers were able to return expensive server capacity to its normal level. 
• Significant Cost Savings: VerifiedThreat reduced the overall API hosting and processing costs considerably, and reduced server maintenance costs by 70%.
• Partner Confidence: The 200 customers that actively consume the pricing API data received higher quality of service and greater confidence.
• Operational Efficiency: This specific threat resulted in some downtime and forced the team into support and remediation. VerifiedThreat was able to pinpoint the issue and solve the problem quickly, saving valuable time and resources..
• OnGoing Threat Protection: Critically, VerifiedThreat offers on-going protection and constantly checks for new vulnerabilities.

Impact

By using VerifiedThreat, Your Store Wizards had the following impact:

• Technical: Continual threat detection, combined with threat verification and automated remediation proved to be a game changer in terms of service delivery and rapid deployment..
• Business: Reduced costs, better use of resources across the new cloud microservices and legacy infrastructure, and stronger assurance to its customers and senior leadership team..

Verified Threat uncovered existing risks but also counters new threat types. If there’s a new threat now, Bittke and his team get verified alerts on the new threat, so they can investigate.

“Finally, we can see what we’re up against.”

Brett Bittke Your Store Wizards.

Please reach out to our sales team and book in a demo to see the platform

www.verifiedthreat.com

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Website Agency & Branding 

The RealBranding agency has over 20 years of web development experience serving hundreds of household brands and even a Cathedral.

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While the agency was focused on improving on the overall customer branding, as the agency grew, the company found itself battling with more and more cybersecurity threats. The net effect was to hamper growth, and increase the support burden. There were times the agency had to solely focus on the problem web domains, effectively ceasing work on new creative projects, which generated  the majority of its revenues.

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The team has lots of experience in design and web marketing, but doesn’t have a dedicated cybersecurity professional. Instead it would rely on its devops teams to try and find the root causes of each attack, and hadn’t adopted cybersecurity standards. Managing Director Michael Taite said:

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“Every week at least one of our clients would develop a problem with a website. We were constantly putting out fires. As we grew the client base, this just made the problem exponentially worse and was a real barrier to growth.”

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The company initially looked to harden its infrastructure and develop a comprehensive reference build. However, as the installed base of sites grew over time, nearly every prior build had different custom elements, and sometimes different webstacks, cloud providers and services, in line with the customer requirements.

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Inevitably, staff turnover exacerbated the legacy code issue. Although the company had documentation standards in place for each new build, the rapid pace of new client onboarding meant that sometimes the documentation was not prioritised.

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RealBranding did not have any formal threat detection process in place.  

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It meant they were often blindsided by the incoming threats, and sometimes  from a phone call from their clients. 

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Although the company monitored all its servers and had comprehensive uptime checking,  out of business hours coverage, it didn’t assess service degradation, slow performance, cyber exploits or data egress as it simply didn’t have the tools to manage and control its diverse environment. The company was often blindsided by new threats.

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Background

This SaaS technology Consulting client develops and delivers SaaS platforms to global customers and the channel. With sensitive commercial data at the heart of its business model, maintaining a strong and provable security posture is essential to protect clients, meet compliance requirements, and preserve brand trust.  

In particular, as more of its partners were auditing 3rd party supplier risk, it needed to have demonstrable proof that the company was proactively guarding  against future threats and weaknesses to protect the customer’s sensitive data.

The company had invested in skilled internal IT security staff and engaged third-party penetration testers on a regular basis. However, the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) remained concerned about blind spots and the limitations of a cycle-based testing approach. Penetration tests were costly, infrequent, and by design limited in scope. The business sought a faster, more cost-efficient, and continuous method of validating its external security posture to give the SLT and customers the confidence needed.

Challenges

• Blind Spots: Internal audits and pen tests left uncertainty around unmanaged domains, legacy systems, API microservices, and shadow IT. 
• High Cost: Traditional third-party penetration testing consumed tens of thousands of pounds annually.
• Limited Frequency: Security validation was point-in-time rather than continuous.
• False Positives: Although the vulnerability reports were comprehensive, they also delivered many potential vulnerabilities that needed investigation, which sucked time from the security leadership team. Many of these ‘vulnerabilities’ when investigated, proved to be false positives, erroneous or were not high impact.
• Board Assurance: Leadership requires a clear and independent view to report confidently on risk exposure, as it seeks additional investment. 

Why Verified Threat

The company selected Verified Threat to provide an outside-in, attacker-perspective assessment of its digital footprint. The platform’s approach was attractive because it required no heavy internal deployment, delivered verified results quickly, and provided a continuous line of sight into the actual business areas with the sensitive data. This helped us to focus on the core risk areas for the business, concentrating on our sensitive partner data,  and align our security testing with our business needs for maximum, continuous security.

Deployment and Approach

• Rapid Setup: The system was live and delivering results very quickly, requiring minimal internal resources and training. 
• Comprehensive Coverage: Verified Threat scanned across domains, IPs, cloud assets, and services, and API Microservices, surfacing exposures not previously identified. 
• Actionable Reporting: Delivered technical detail for engineers, but also clear executive summaries that were aligned to business impact.
• Prioritisation: Risks were ranked by exploitability and relevance, enabling the security team to focus on what mattered most.

Results

• Previously Unseen Risks Identified: Legacy system exposures and misconfigurations missed by pen testers were uncovered in a range of API services that hosted sensitive client data. 
• Significant Cost Savings: VerifiedThreat picked up a large volume of significant data mining of our APIs, which resulted in a £200,000 annual saving on data hosting, CPU and data costs from our partners.
• Improved Confidence: Board and leadership gained an independent, transparent view of the organisation’s external posture.
• Operational Efficiency: Internal security staff shifted effort from discovery to remediation and strategic improvement. The threat intelligence provided the team with actual proven vulnerabilities which they could then look to harden, re-test and benefit from the continuous improvement cycle.
• Scalable Assurance: The model can be repeated easily as the business grows, providing ongoing resilience.

Impact

By using Verified Threat, the organisation achieved both technical depth and business value:

• Technical: Continuous visibility, faster identification of real-world vulnerabilities, and structured prioritisation for remediation.
• Business: Reduced costs, better use of resources across the new cloud microservices and legacy infrastructure, and stronger assurance to clients and the board.

Anonymous Feedback:

"Verified Threat uncovered risks and hidden data mining abuse that neither our internal team nor external auditors had identified. It gave us speed, clarity, and more than paid for itself by reducing operating costs, as well as providing ongoing threat testing against our core impact areas, and the board now has greater confidence in our security posture."

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Continual AI-Driven Red Teaming & Vulnerability Scanning VerifiedThreat continually scans your entire digital footprint to uncover vulnerabilities and validate real risks with evidential proof. Our scalable AI agents adapt their attack vectors—just like real adversaries—to confirm weaknesses with clear context. This eliminates wasted time on false alerts or theoretical issues. Instead, leadership and security teams see the highest risks across the estate, prioritized and proven.

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