Fortra® Threat Intelligence and Research Experts (FIRE)

Here at Fortra, we leave nothing to chance. 

Fortra Research and Intelligence Experts—our FIRE team—are skilled professionals in their fields who share a common goal of dismantling emerging exploits and creating threat-informed security solutions. With Fortra’s unique experience in defensive and offensive security, our multi-faceted FIRE team delivers a 360-degree perspective to our analysis, investigation, and threat-vetting techniques. 

FIRE team members include:

At the core of Fortra’s advanced portfolio of cybersecurity solutions lies our dedicated cyber threat intelligence research team.

Fortra’s highly skilled FIRE team serves as the backbone of our threat research and intelligence offerings. Their continuous monitoring of the ever-evolving threat landscape and emerging threats, analysis of suspicious activity, adversary profiling, threat-hunting and investigative research capabilities allow Fortra to go beyond surface level threat indicators.

While the outputs of applied threat intelligence help various organizations fortify their security defenses by detecting, disrupting, or preventing threats, it’s the FIRE team that ensures that intelligence and research findings keep our solutions and decisions relevant and effective in an evolving threat landscape.

Fortra Security Operations Center (SOC)

The Fortra SOC is comprised of specialist detection and mitigation groups that are on the front lines of FIRE, facing continuous cybersecurity incidents, events, attacks, and threats.

The SOC’s defensive capabilities can extend both within and beyond the firewall, allowing Fortra to defend organizations with an extensive portfolio of solutions all the way from lookalike domain takedowns to finetuning data egress detection rules. This dedicated team is built upon multiple service lines in various industries and disciplines, which further expands Fortra’s exposure and contributions to the extensive threat landscape.

Fortra's dedicated SOC team is made up of the following  cyber security disciplines:

Regardless of which specific team is responding to a cyber threat, our various service lines are united through threat intelligence and research, receiving and feeding intelligence to FIRE in a virtuous cycle. For example, Fortra’s DLP analysts regularly identify malicious patterns, such as geolocations or system commands, targeting data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Additionally, Fortra brand protection analysts share IOCs that facilitate the decimation of actionable threat intelligence, including our dedicated threat intelligence sharing solution, Fortra Threat Brain. With such variety of advanced SOC capabilities, solutions, and teams, FIRE unites to contribute to our unrivaled threat intelligence and research offerings.

Fortra Research and Development (R&D)

The broader intelligence and research team at Fortra includes our research and development (R&D) technologists, who are all Fortra individuals that have a nexus around threat intelligence and protecting our customers from cyberattacks. While the Fortra SOC is focused on the disruption of threats and attack takedown efforts, the R&D team takes a broader view, such as leveraging insights from the SOC to identify patterns that inform overall threat intelligence, research, and build the bigger picture of the threat landscape.

Our research and development team is constructed on the following three pillars:

FIRE and Fortra Threat Brain

The analysts of the FIRE team consistently update Fortra Threat Brain with newly discovered threat research and intelligence, verifying and adding threat data obtained from other partner sources. In turn, FIRE draws AI-driven information from Fortra Threat Brain to enrich and apply this intelligence through advanced analytics, creating and finetuning content to help Fortra customers stay ahead of evolving threats.