# Preemptive Cyber Defense

_Last updated: 2025-11-03_

Morphisec offers preemptive cyber defense that anticipates and neutralizes potential attacks before they cause damage, protecting 7,000+ companies and 9,000,000+ endpoints while addressing 30,000 attacks daily.

## How Preemptive Cyber Defense Works

Morphisec's preemptive cyber defense evades, outsmart, and neutralizes threats early, before damage occurs. The platform uses Automated Moving Target Defense to deliver three distinct security layers:

### Adaptive Exposure Management (AEM)

AEM elevates security posture by prioritizing vulnerabilities, automating assessment of security controls, identifying high-risk software, and addressing security misconfigurations.

### Infiltration Protection

Infiltration Protection enhances cyber resiliency by continually changing the attack surface, rendering targets unpredictable and harder for attackers to exploit.

### Impact Protection

Impact Protection proactively defends critical assets and data, minimizing recovery times and strengthening anti-ransomware stance.

### Adaptive Recovery

Adaptive Recovery ensures encrypted files are restored quickly and preserves critical forensic data in tamper-proof storage, enabling fast incident investigation and comprehensive recovery.

## Notable Attacks Prevented by Morphisec

- **Cicada3301**: Morphisec conducted proprietary research on new techniques used by Cicada3301.
- **Chae$ Malware**: Morphisec published a full report on Chae$ malware and its variants.
- **Microsoft Vulnerabilities**: Morphisec revealed five unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft systems that enable privilege escalation threats.

## Key Capabilities

### Proactive Threat Prevention

Morphisec empowers organizations to proactively identify and address vulnerabilities, preventing attacks before they start.

### Minimized Attack Surface

Continuous monitoring and adaptive security controls minimize attack surfaces, reducing opportunities for threat actors to exploit vulnerabilities.

### Increased Resilience

A prevention-first strategy enables organizations to quickly adapt to evolving threats, ensuring operational stability even against advanced cyberattacks.

### Operational Efficiency

Automated defenses and risk-based prioritization optimize workflows, allowing security teams to concentrate on high-priority threats with increased efficiency.

## Benefits of Preemptive Cyber Defense

### Boost Security Posture

- Stop threats preemptively with prevention-first security powered by Automated Moving Target Defense.
- Gain improved visibility into threat exposure for better preparation.
- Ensure operational readiness.

### Threat Visibility and Management

- Reveal insights into vulnerabilities, high-risk software, misconfigurations, and security controls.
- Stay ahead of attackers through automatic security control assessments (ASCA).
- Morphisec acts as a virtual patch, keeping systems hardened even when no patch is available.

### Gain Assurance

- Enable defense-in-depth that protects organizations even when other safeguards fail.
- Protect legacy systems, cyber-physical systems, and remote work infrastructure.
- Stop software supply chain attacks and other stealthy threats.

## Customer Testimonials

**Team Lead, Systems Services** at an insurance company with $500M–1B USD revenue: "The advanced threat prevention has helped prevent threats and increase our security posture… Morphisec gives us peace of mind knowing we're protected against advanced threats."

**Tom Merkle, CIO** at a healthcare company with 1,200 employees: "Diminish the blast radius of ransomware attacks by preemptively reducing exposure to risk, and proactively preventing attacks at multiple phases, from early infiltration to safeguarding systems when ransomware attempts to execute."

**Global Director of Cybersecurity** at a $1–3B USD manufacturing company: "Morphisec actually prevents threats and shuts things down… We don't have to wait for people to go out and do something."

## Experience Morphisec

A free, self-guided platform tour is available to experience Morphisec's capabilities firsthand.