# Businesses, small IT departments & Startups

In the fast-paced environment of startups and business development, we understand that cybersecurity may not be your primary focus. While the Threat List won't shield you from phishing or advanced targeted attacks, it addresses a critical gap in your defense strategy.

If you're constantly delivering features or fixing issues at your company, issues, it's likely that you have numerous services exposed to the internet such as Grafana, GitLab, Prometheus, VNC, RDP, and more. These form part of your threat surface and remain exposed 24/7, 365 days a year.

Every time a new vulnerability surfaces, with an easily accessible proof-of-concept (PoC), there's a race among black hats to exploit as many vulnerable servers as possible - yours and ours included.

Enterprises across the globe scramble to patch these vulnerabilities, often resorting to workarounds like temporary system shutdowns, which protect from exploits but also disrupt user access.

For startups and small businesses, we propose a different approach. Avoid exposing services on the internet unless absolutely necessary. If you must, consider placing them behind a VPN or implementing 0-trust access.

For everything else, there's the Threat List - a dynamically updated register of threats that you shouldn't allow to connect to your infrastructure, whether it be dashboards, source code repositories, or remote-access industrial CNCs via VNC.

Threat List provides real-time updates, ensuring continuous protection against generic cyber threats and mass exploitation attempts, making it a valuable entry-level cybersecurity measure for businesses and startups.

# Integration Options:

# MSPs

Contact your Managed Service Provider and ask for the ELLIO: Threat List. You should have it deployed in no time. If your MSP doesn't yet support ELLIO: Threat List, just direct them to this page.

# Self-service

If you prefer a DIY approach, you can deploy the Threat List yourself. Please check our quickstart guide for instructions. Depending on your Firewall/Router, the first-time setup should take between 5 and 25 minutes.