Reeling in the year [A 2024 CybelAngel Retrospective]

As another year winds down, take a walk with us down memory lane.

It was a great year, filled with the evolution of product features, worldwide events, and some unforgettable team get togethers. Throughout it, cybersecurity was never far from our minds.

We launched API Threat Detection!

API threats are a throbbing headache for many cybersecurity teams today. Again and again we heard that API vulnerabilities were a concern for global leaders.

This year we took this on board and launched API Threat Detection as an enhancement to our Asset Discovery and Monitoring module.

In a nutshell here is what this brand new solution offers:

• Comprehensive visibility into an organization’s external API landscape, powered by machine learning-driven analysis.
• Non-invasive scanning techniques maintain efficiency while also delivering a low false-positive rate.
• Seamless integration into existing systems. Now, manual data entry is a thing of the past, and user-friendly connectors enable automated daily monitoring of the digital ecosystem.
• API security testing. Now our customers can launch on-demand DAST scans on an API to uncover potential threats. We test for REST and GraphQL APIs.

With this new offering, we are providing more than just a critical defense against increasingly sophisticated cyber attackers. API Threat Detection also continuously scans the digital horizon and identifies potential vulnerabilities in real-time. Deploying it has far-reaching consequences for your cyber operations.

For more product information about our brand new API Threat Detection solution, download our companion Ebook.

We pressed play on more new features and upgrades to your cybersecurity

Here is a quick overview of some of other features or enhancements we’ve made this year on the product side:

• Our enhanced Brand Protection module
• A new executive dashboard
• Our catalog of professional services for credits
• We increased your dark web monitoring visibility

Plus lots of platform management and user experience updates.

Read our complete H1 and H2 release updates over on our dedicated blog.

Our External Attack Surface Management report made an impact

Our CISO Todd Carroll shared a special analysis of the EASM threat landscape based on 192 trillion data points.

Constant unrelenting cyber attacks (and remediation strategies) gave him plenty of material.

His report shared proactive cybersecurity strategies and use cases that looked at everything from data leaks to dark web cyber threats, phishing, ransomware and a fare few data breaches. It was an artful, lessons learned look back at how hackers wreaked havoc.

Here are some of the vulnerabilities his report covered:

1. The number of exposed databases surged from 740,000 to 1.5 million, marking a twofold increase.
2. Cloud-based data exposure saw an 11% rise over the previous year.
3. In 2023, CybelAngel reported that 79% of all alerts originated from sources outside the client’s IT perimeter.
4. A mere five areas account for 75% of all identified vulnerabilities.

Keep an eye out for our 2025 annual report which will be available early next year.

We provided lots of threat intelligence on our blog

Threat notes. Threat intelligence. Gernal shakedowns on trending topics.

If it was a topic, we got stuck in to writing and sharing what happened across layers of the internet.

Whether it is the dark web you are curious about, or perhaps daily risk management strategies for CISOs, we published guide after guide in English, and several others in French.

Some of our highlights included:

• A follow up on Alphabay and Hansa
• Our investigation into the Pure Incubation Ventures leak (Troy Hunt liked this one!)
• Our CISO insights series
• A meaty five part brand protection series
• A dive into the chaotic Anonymous Sudan group
• Notre Enquête sur la Hausse des Cyberattaques en France

Discover lots more fresh threat intelligence takes here.

A host of global events brought us one step closer to you

From the bright lights of Las Vegas to London town, Boston, all over France, Monaco, Dubai, San Francisco…the long list of event locations in 2024 was icing on the cake of another busy year.

We took part innumerous cybersecurity events across the globe, learning more and more about what was niggling our customers and peers.

It was such a pleasure to make the journey to meet you all, each time.

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Erwan Keraudy Received the National Order of Merit

In April the French government awarded honored CybelAngel’s CEO and co-founder with the prestigious National Order of Merit, the “Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite,” by the French government.

Mr Keraudy was honored for his pivotal role in transforming CybelAngel from a cybersecurity startup to a global brand focused on digital risk protection and EASM.

Refreshing off-sites energized our 2024

Surf was up this year- we all enjoyed active team gatherings, with a healthy smattering of fun and great food.

We couldn’t possibly pick a favourite!

Perhaps you would like to join in next year? Find out more about our career openings to join us.

Thank you from us all at CybelAngel

With that in mind, we would like to thank all of our customers, partners, and incredibly hard working team, who shared and shaped our external attack surface management vision in 2024.

Nothing is possible without you all.

Here is to a bright 2025!