Osterman Research

We attended RSAC 2024 in San Francisco from May 6-8. Our days at the conference were packed with back-to-back briefings. 

Here’s some notes on our briefing with Austin Murdock (Founder and CEO) and Rüya Barrett (Chief Marketing Officer) of SixMap. The briefing was organized by Leslie Kesselring and Donna Estrin of Kesselring Communications.

Key takeaways from our conversation:

• SixMap offers a cyber defense platform to give customers visibility of where attackers could target them. This is enriched with threat intelligence and the ability to take action to stop attacks. In terms of security category, SixMap’s offering is a continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) solution.
• SixMap is focused on the enterprise market, which it defines as globally-distributed organizations with 5,000 or more employees. Hence, organizations with complex IT infrastructures, multiple areas of IT responsibility, and many potential points of entry for attackers.
• Onboarding with SixMap is simple; it starts by providing your company name. SixMap uses its smarts to enumerate all associated entities, subsidiaries, acquisitions, and affiliated third parties across all locations. SixMap says this provides a picture of what is actually being defended, and replaces manual processes previously centered around spreadsheets, emails, and other types of coordination. Once the picture is known, SixMap discovers all internet-connected assets and devices, and scans all ports to look for exploitable vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. This map of potential compromise areas is enriched with SixMap’s global threat intelligence on threat actor activity. It offers various forms of remediation (SOC updates, solution blueprints), can validate that remediations were correctly implemented, and if agreed by the customer, can remotely auto-fix vulnerabilities with no action required by the customer.
• Giving customers the ability to take action based on visibility and intelligence is critically important to SixMap. It seeks to solve for the problem of too much data (overwhelming volumes, unclear impact) and not enough time (chasing low-value alerts, for example). SixMap says it has reduced actionable alerts by 99.9% in customer engagements.

For more, see SixMap.