SecurityScorecard's Vulnerability Assessment Scanner

Overview

SecurityScorecard's Vulnerability Assessment Scanner is a tool designed to identify and assess vulnerabilities in an organization's digital infrastructure, offering real-time insights and prioritized recommendations to strengthen security measures and reduce cyber risk.

Event Categories

The following table lists the data source offered by this integration.

Data Source	Description
`Application logs`	collect activities from the source

In details, the following table denotes the type of events produced by this integration.

Name	Values
Kind	`alert`
Category	`intrusion_detection`, `vulnerability`
Type	`info`

Event Samples

Find below few samples of events and how they are normalized by Sekoia.io.

breach_reported_event.jsonissue_event.json

{
    "message": "{\"trigger\":{\"type\":\"breach_reported\",\"breach\":{\"domain\":\"example.com\",\"root_cause\":\"hacked\",\"company_name\":\"Example Company\",\"records_lost\":10000,\"date_discovered\":0,\"type_of_breach\":\"\",\"description\":\"Company was breached, exposing authentication details of senior employees. An insider is believed to have helped.\"}},\"created_at\":\"2022-08-09T16:36:42.397Z\",\"execution_id\":\"87b786f3-76c9-4a2e-a44b-985be679ef80\",\"scorecard_id\":\"8e21f4aa-ee49-5f6d-be70-366b95ecc586\",\"domain\":\"example.com\"}",
    "event": {
        "action": "breach_reported",
        "category": [
            "intrusion_detection"
        ],
        "dataset": "breach",
        "kind": "alert",
        "reason": "Company was breached, exposing authentication details of senior employees. An insider is believed to have helped.",
        "type": [
            "info"
        ]
    },
    "@timestamp": "2022-08-09T16:36:42.397000Z",
    "cloud": {
        "account": {
            "name": "example.com"
        }
    },
    "observer": {
        "product": "Vulnerability Assessment Scanner",
        "vendor": "SecurityScorecard"
    },
    "organization": {
        "name": "Example Company"
    },
    "securityscorecard": {
        "vas": {
            "breach": {
                "root_cause": "hacked"
            },
            "id": "8e21f4aa-ee49-5f6d-be70-366b95ecc586"
        }
    }
}

{
    "message": "{\"trigger\":{\"type\":\"new_issues\",\"issues\":{\"csp_no_policy_v2\":{\"active\":{\"count\":26},\"departed\":{\"count\":3},\"resolved\":{\"count\":2}},\"domain_missing_https_v2\":{\"active\":{\"count\":15}}},\"selected\":\"by_severity\",\"severity\":\"low\"},\"created_at\":\"2022-08-10T19:49:46.029Z\",\"execution_id\":\"ee08b90e-98fe-45e1-9261-91eb0a80275d\",\"scorecard_id\":\"8e21f4aa-ee49-5f6d-be70-366b95ecc586\",\"domain\":\"example.com\"}",
    "event": {
        "action": "new_issues",
        "category": [
            "vulnerability"
        ],
        "dataset": "issue",
        "type": [
            "info"
        ]
    },
    "@timestamp": "2022-08-10T19:49:46.029000Z",
    "cloud": {
        "account": {
            "name": "example.com"
        }
    },
    "observer": {
        "product": "Vulnerability Assessment Scanner",
        "vendor": "SecurityScorecard"
    },
    "securityscorecard": {
        "vas": {
            "id": "8e21f4aa-ee49-5f6d-be70-366b95ecc586",
            "selected": "by_severity",
            "severity": "low"
        }
    }
}

Extracted Fields

The following table lists the fields that are extracted, normalized under the ECS format, analyzed and indexed by the parser. It should be noted that infered fields are not listed.

Name	Type	Description
`@timestamp`	`date`	Date/time when the event originated.
`cloud.account.name`	`keyword`	The cloud account name.
`event.action`	`keyword`	The action captured by the event.
`event.category`	`keyword`	Event category. The second categorization field in the hierarchy.
`event.dataset`	`keyword`	Name of the dataset.
`event.kind`	`keyword`	The kind of the event. The highest categorization field in the hierarchy.
`event.reason`	`keyword`	Reason why this event happened, according to the source
`event.type`	`keyword`	Event type. The third categorization field in the hierarchy.
`observer.product`	`keyword`	The product name of the observer.
`observer.vendor`	`keyword`	Vendor name of the observer.
`organization.name`	`keyword`	Organization name.
`securityscorecard.vas.breach.root_cause`	`keyword`	Scorecard breach root cause
`securityscorecard.vas.id`	`keyword`	Scorecard event id
`securityscorecard.vas.selected`	`keyword`	Scorecard event selected
`securityscorecard.vas.severity`	`keyword`	Scorecard event severity

Configure

This setup guide will show you how to provide an integration between Security Scorecard Vunerability Assessment Scanner events and Sekoia.io.

Create an intake

Go to the intake page and create a new intake from the format Security Scorecard VAS. Copy the intake key.

Configure Security Scorecard

Login to admin panel and go to Rule Builder tab.
Click Create Rule button.
In the forms that you see please feel all the fields with correct values and use Send web request to as action. Set the destination url to https://intake.sekoia.io/plain?intake_key=<intake_key> with value from previous steps.
Save the configuration and enjoy your events