HALOCK Industry Threat (HIT) Index
Understand the Threats Most Likely to Affect Your Industry
What Industry Trends Affect You?
The HALOCK cyber threat index estimates which types of cybersecurity attacks are most and least likely to affect organizations in a particular industry. HALOCK analyzes attack patterns in the VERIS Community Database and incorporates relevant incident-response experience. Because organizations in the same industry often use similar systems, processes, and information, they frequently face recognizable patterns of breaches and security failures.
How the HALOCK Industry Threat Index Works
The industry threat index identifies patterns in real attack data and applies them to industry-specific threat analysis. For example, physical attacks may create greater exposure for businesses operating point-of-sale systems, while highly regulated industries can face greater consequences from errors involving sensitive information.
The objective is to move from a generic list of possible threats to a more evidence-based view of the attack methods most relevant to the organization.
Use Threat Intelligence to Estimate Likelihood
HALOCK compares industry attack patterns with the organization’s security controls to estimate which threat vectors are most likely to succeed.
This cyber threat intelligence helps security and risk teams evaluate:
- likely attack methods;
- controls that prevent or detect those attacks;
- weaknesses that increase exposure;
- areas where protection is comparatively strong;
- threats that should receive greater attention.
Threat likelihood becomes more defensible when it is based on evidence rather than intuition alone.
Connect Threat Data to Risk Analysis
Risk is commonly evaluated through impact and likelihood.
The HIT Index strengthens the likelihood side of that analysis with observed attack data. HALOCK can incorporate the findings into an organization’s existing risk assessment to prioritize foreseeable threats that could harm the business, customers, vendors, or other stakeholders.
This connects threat intelligence to practical industry cyber risk decisions.
Prioritize Reasonable Safeguards
Understanding likely threats helps organizations determine which controls deserve attention first.
HALOCK uses the HIT Index with DoCRA and other risk methods to evaluate whether safeguards are reasonable for the threats and consequences the organization faces.
The goal is not to defend equally against every imaginable attack. It is to use real threat patterns to prioritize security investment around foreseeable risk and establish safeguards proportionate to that risk.
The HIT Index will help support your risk management strategy in our evolving cyber landscape. Learn more about your industry and establish reasonable safeguards as regulators require.
