Agora Partners with Bishop Fox to Set the Highest Security Standard for Real-Time Engagement
December 21 2021 - 9:00AM
Agora, Inc. (NASDAQ: API), a pioneer and leading platform for
real-time engagement APIs, has partnered with Bishop Fox, the
largest private offensive security firm to work on multiple
security areas.
This partnership will set the highest
industry standards for real-time engagement (RTE) security, while
also providing Agora with continued security, safety and privacy
across its platform.
“At Agora, security has always been a
top priority,” said Yaniv Elmadawi, VP of Solutions &
Technology Services at Agora. “We’re constantly evaluating the best
methods for ensuring security, safety and privacy across our
platform. Through this new partnership with Bishop Fox, we will
continue to enhance security capabilities across our platform that
go beyond even the highest industry standards.”
The new partnership revolves around
two Bishop Fox offerings: The Cosmos platform, which delivers
continuous offensive security to protect dynamic attack surfaces by
combining advanced technology, automation, and expert-driven
testing and Red Teaming & Readiness, which emulates potential
threats featuring motivations, goals, and how combatants operate
with different tools. This holistic security view provides an
ability to defend against real-world, sophisticated attacks.
Here’s a closer look at the
capabilities Bishop Fox brings to its partnership with Agora.
Attack surface
management Cosmos continuously captures Agora’s entire
external attack surface, discovering known targets, as well as
those that are often out-of-scope for traditional technologies. The
platform will also map Agora’s changing perimeter, drawing upon
public information and intelligence-gathering methods to generate
an up-to-date map of its attack surface.
Exposure
identification To proactively defend against emerging
threats, Cosmos will uncover ways adversaries could potentially
gain initial access to Agora’s environments, such as insecure apps,
misconfigurations, missing patches, bad passwords, and more. This
collected intelligence and an automated exposure reconnaissance
engine quickly identify risks so that attack windows can be closed
before attackers find them.
Continuous attack
emulation Bishop Fox’s expert testers use both publicly
available and proprietary tools to safely execute initial
exploitation and post-exploitation tactics aligned to industry
standard methodologies. Cosmos will enable Agora to gauge impact by
providing visibility into how adversaries can capitalize on
susceptible assets, including post-exploitation pathways, systems,
and at-risk data.
Added security
expertise The partnership will also provide Agora with a
focused list of suggestions and if applicable, validated exposures
with actionable guidance, as well as impact analysis to aid in
prioritizing the areas with the greatest risk. Cosmos operators are
available to provide expert insights into vulnerabilities and to
conduct testing on-demand to ensure exposures have been fully
remediated and are no longer susceptible to compromise. The
platform delivers a centralized view of insights into what the
Bishop Fox team is finding and analyzing in real-time, as well as
attack surface data, impact analysis, and remediation
recommendations.
Red Teaming &
Readiness Bishop Fox’s Red Team will test Agora’s security
defenses, leveraging the same tactics, techniques, and procedures
as skilled real-world adversaries. The multi-point methodology
tests information systems, and expands to cover physical and social
engineering avenues that emulate the actions of determined
adversaries.
“Our solutions are a natural fit for
adding offensive security testing to Agora’s real-time engagement
platform,” said Jamie Fiedrich, Vice President and General Manager
of Cosmos at Bishop Fox. “We’re excited to partner with a
forward-thinking company that puts security front and center to
help Agora accelerate their security and privacy efforts, which is
clearly a core focus for every product they develop.”
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About AgoraAgora is
the leading Real-time Engagement Platform as a Service (RTE PaaS)
company. Agora’s mission is to make real-time engagement
ubiquitous, allowing everyone to interact with anyone, in any
application, anytime and anywhere. Agora’s platform provides
developers with simple, flexible and powerful application
programming interfaces, or APIs, to embed real-time video and voice
engagement experiences into their applications.
About Bishop Fox
Bishop Fox is the largest private offensive security firm, offering
solutions ranging from penetration testing, red teaming, and attack
surface management to product, cloud, and application security
assessments. Over the past 16 years, we’ve worked with more than
25% of the Fortune 100, 8 of the top 10 global tech companies, and
hundreds of other organizations to improve their security. Our
award-winning Cosmos (formerly CAST) platform was recently named
Best Emerging Technology in the 2021 SC Media Awards and our
service engagements are consistently ranked as “world class” in NPS
surveys. We are committed to giving back to the security community
at large; in fact, we have authored 15 open-source tools and
published almost 50 security advisories in the last 5 years. Learn
more about us at bishopfox.com or follow us on Twitter for the
latest updates.
Media Contact:
Ron Stein
ron@crenshawcomm.com
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