Silent Push: Mapping the Internet's Dark Corners to Stop Attacks before They Begin

The digital battlefield is vast, largely uncharted, and constantly shifting. Most security teams operate with a map that highlights only the known minefields indicators of compromise (IOCs) from past attacks. But the real danger lies in the unmapped territory, where adversaries quietly assemble their infrastructure for the next assault. This is the 98% of live attacker infrastructure that conventional tools miss.

In this landscape of reactive defense, Silent Push has carved a fundamentally different path. The company was founded on a simple but radical premise: what if you could identify threat actor infrastructure not after a breach, but during its construction phase? This is the core of their mission to shift cybersecurity from a post-incident cleanup operation to a preemptive discipline that prevents loss before it occurs.

Their method hinges on a proprietary, first-party data engine that continuously scans and clusters the entire IPv4 and IPv6 space, logging changes in DNS, web content, and certificates. This unparalleled visibility allows them to model the behavioral fingerprints of attackers, revealing patterns in how they build and manage their digital assets. The result is a new class of intelligence they call Indicators of Future Attack (IOFA)™, turning the hunter into the hunted.

From Reactive Alerts to Proactive Fingerprints

Traditional threat intelligence is plagued by noise. Feeds are flooded with IOCs that are often obsolete or low-fidelity, leading to alert fatigue and missed signals. Silent Push flips this model. Instead of tracking what has already been used in an attack, their platform focuses on the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) adversaries use to create that infrastructure.

By analyzing patterns in DNS automation, certificate registration, and hosting behavior, Silent Push can cluster seemingly disparate domains and IPs, linking them to a common threat actor. This allows them to identify staging grounds and command-and-control servers while they are still being set up. For clients, this means blocking a phishing domain before it’s used in a campaign or identifying a spoofed login portal before credentials are harvested. This preemptive action directly translates to reduced risk and avoided financial loss, protecting both organizational assets and customer trust.

The Revenue Engine of Preemption

The commercial impact of this capability is profound. For Silent Push’s customers, the platform is not merely a cost of doing business; it is a revenue protection and operational efficiency engine. By preventing successful attacks, companies avoid the direct financial hits of ransomware, fraud, and data theft, as well as the immense collateral damage to brand reputation and customer loyalty.

Furthermore, the platform’s efficiency drives down operational costs. Security teams can consolidate multiple point solutions passive DNS lookup tools, brand protection services, and threat intelligence platforms into a single unified console. This reduces software licensing fees and, more importantly, slashes the time highly paid analysts spend pivoting between disjointed systems. The automation of threat hunting and enrichment workflows allows a smaller team to manage a larger threat surface, directly influencing the bottom line by containing security operational expenditures while improving outcomes.

Democratizing Access to Power Intelligence

Understanding that innovation must be accessible to foster a more secure ecosystem, Silent Push offers a robust Community Edition. This free tier is a strategic masterstroke. It serves as an entry point for individual researchers and small security teams to experience the power of its data, simultaneously building goodwill and cultivating a pipeline of future enterprise clients who have tested its value firsthand.

This approach broadens the company’s reach and embeds its methodology into the fabric of the cybersecurity community. As these practitioners witness the platform’s unique capabilities, they become advocates, driving organic growth and establishing Silent Push as a thought leader in preemptive defense. This community-driven model creates a virtuous cycle, where user feedback refines the product, which in turn attracts a larger, more engaged user base, solidifying its market position.

A New Cartography for Cybersecurity

In the end, Silent Push is not just selling a product; it is advocating for a paradigm shift. The cybersecurity industry has long been trapped in a cycle of reaction, constantly cleaning up after breaches that were, in hindsight, predictable. Silent Push provides the map to the terra incognita of the internet, charting the hidden shoals where adversaries lie in wait.

By focusing on the behavioral economics of attackers the repeatable, traceable patterns of their infrastructure lifecycle the company offers a sustainable path forward. It empowers organizations to move from a state of constant vigilance against known threats to one of confident anticipation, disrupting attacks in their earliest stages. In doing so, Silent Push is redefining the very economics of cyber defense, where the most cost-effective incident is the one that never happens.

Ken Bagnall, Founder & CEO

“We focus on the 98% of live attacker infrastructure that the rest of the industry misses.”