CASE
STUDY

Leading Media and Entertainment Company
Protects Its Intellectual Property and Manages
Risk with Recorded Future®
A leader in media and entertainment relies on Recorded Future to identify and remediate
data leaks and assess its risk posture
Use Case:

In the media and entertainment industry, data leaks about a big product releasecan severely impact both revenue and customer perceptions. The risk of data

Protect their brand and its assets from threatsthat could result in intellectual property loss
or reputational damage.

loss is further heightened by the scope of the projects and the sheer quantity ofChallenge:

rapidly changing threat landscape and to mitigate risk proactively.

Lack of real-time visibility or context to help
teams proactively address risks such as
vendor risk, intellectual property leakage,and device vulnerabilities.

third-party contributors who work on any given product. That’s why a top media
and entertainment company uses Recorded Future to maintain visibility into its“Third-party risk is a huge element in our value chain. At the highest levels of thecompany, my job is about risk awareness and helping executives understand thebig picture behind an incident or a string of incidents, or what we're seeing being

Solution:

reported in the news and how that relates to what we're seeing internally,” says

The Recorded Future

the company’s Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager.

Intelligence Cloud, including:• Brand Intelligence

Looking for Visibility• Vulnerability Intelligence

The intelligence team hasn’t always had the visibility it needed to provide the• Threat Intelligenceinsights business leaders are looking for. “If an executive asked me to track a• Third-Party Intelligence• SecOps Intelligence

Outcomes:• Identify and stop typosquatting and active
phishing campaign

threat or keep a pulse on whether information was getting leaked, I thought ‘itwould be great if we could do that, but we couldn’t.’ But now, with Recorded
Future, we can. Recorded Future helps our teams contextualize and articulaterisks in a way that is digestible and relevant to the business,” says the Cyber
Threat Intelligence Manager.

• Identify and shut down malicious
infrastructure targeting high value assets

The media and entertainment company went through a methodical evaluation• Address high-risk vulnerabilities that canlead to data loss

process to select an intelligence provider, and saw Recorded Future’s value• Use Recorded Future to obtain insights
into third-party risk

right away. “During the evaluation stage, the Recorded Future team did a reallyoutstanding job getting to know us and our concerns, and they set up the• Leverage Recorded Future to measureprogress against intelligence goals

platform to produce automated high-value alerting during the proof of concept.
They set up domain monitoring logic that identified phishing targeting ourassets,” says the Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager.

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Their intelligence team was also pleased with the Recorded

Taking intelligence further, the team also uses

Future Intelligence Platform; “During the trial we wereRecorded Future to research potential technology

really impressed with the way the platform is organizedvulnerabilities that third parties inadvertently introduce

around intelligence requirements and the ability to track

to projects. “The ability to identify vulnerabilities inhow what we’re doing from an alerting standpoint flows up

niche technologies used in the industry has also been

into a broader set of requirements that the team is workingof high value to us,” says the Cyber Threat Intelligence

on,” says the Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager. “That’sManager. For example, project teams sometimes use

something that really differentiates Recorded Future, andvery specific devices. The intelligence team uses

it helps our teams organize and understand what they’reRecorded Future to research those devices

looking for, what data they have, and where the gaps are.”for vulnerabilities.

The coverage and visibility provided by Recorded Future“If a device vulnerability is targeted by ransomware

has enabled the media and entertainment company toactors, the alert is passed to the technology teams toidentify and mitigate threats to its brand. “I’m a huge fan

let them know that not only is there a vulnerability, butof Recorded Future’s Brand Intelligence. It has enabled us

it’s being targeted by ransomware, and they need toto discover threats before they hit our network,” says thetake the necessary steps to discontinue the use of that

Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager. With Brand Intelligence,device,” says the Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager.

the team also discovered and shut down malicious
infrastructure impersonating the company and executing
phishing attacks targeting high value assets.

Alerts are tracked in Recorded Future, enabling
the intelligence team to see improvements in thecompany’s risk posture. “It’s very, very easy to nameProtecting Intellectual Property andManaging Vendor Risk

alerts, associate them with intelligence goals in a

The security team also uses Recorded Future to quicklyIntelligence Manager.

identify information leaks before big product launches, aswell as, monitor for post-launch data abuse. “We are able toidentify new domains containing stolen assets as they arebeing created. We then package up the research, and send
it to our internal team that actions takedowns on them,”

way that is rational, so we can measure what we’redoing and how we’re doing it,” says the Cyber Threat
The team’s work has earned it some notoriety.
When business leaders want to know about the latest
security issue making news headlines, the intelligenceteam is known for having answers. “Being able tosays the Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager.

confidently say we understand how a threat to ourRecorded Future’s Third-Party Intelligence delivers

has become known for having this information.

additional value. “There’s a lot of executive anxiety about
product details being leaked before they are released
because many small vendors and contractors are involvedin product launches and directly handle our highest value

industry impacts us is very valuable, and our teamNow, thanks to Recorded Future, people come to us
looking for validation that the problem they’re dealing
with is covered.”data,” says the Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager. “ThirdParty Intelligence provides a different perspective on theprofile of a vendor that we're working with. We can see past
incidents that they've had, and spot check their security
hygiene in real-time. It helps to give the risk assessor a
different perspective, and some additional questions,that they can probe into with their points of contact atthe vendor.”

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