Prevent adversary insight with managed attribution

Adversaries constantly seek to exploit any vulnerability, and unmanaged online activities – including open-source collection – present significant operational security risks. Every click, search and visit can be attributed to your organization, providing adversaries with valuable insights about interests and gaps – unless that attribution is managed.

Authentic8 Silo for Research: A comprehensive solution

Managed attribution (MA) solutions ensure mission security by obfuscating web browsing and open source collection – ensuring you remain anonymous while denying adversaries insight into your priorities, intentions, and gaps. Silo for Research is a proven managed attribution solution with features designed for defense organizations.

Global points of presence

Silo offers a global selection of IP locations, allowing researchers to access information from various regions without disclosing their true origin.

Fast, isolated access

Silo is fully isolated to prevent malware infections or data leaks, and offers quick and easy access to all websites – even on the dark web.

Oversight-friendly audit

Detailed audit logs of user activity ensure compliance with policy, include high-priority user-attributable details and offer assurance against abuse.

A purpose-built managed attribution solution

Authentic8's Silo for Research offers a proven managed attribution solution designed specifically for defense organizations. Check out the demo video or whitepaper link below to learn more.

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Alternatives and their disadvantages

While several alternatives to managed attribution exist, they fall short in terms of security, cost and effectiveness.

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

VDIs offer pseudo-anonymous browsing from a small set of IPs without location-specific addresses, which can link users' activities together and expose the organization.

Virtual machine + VPN

Expensive and hard to maintain, VMs combined with unvetted VPNs open an organization to security risks and disallow audit logs and access control.

Local browsers

Local browsers leave analysts and their organizations exposed to attribution and malware with little-to-no oversight.

Read why defense organizations love working with Silo

“If we are not using Silo, sites are going to notice that the traffic is coming from the federal agency’s IP address, especially if we are visiting them again and again. Every hit is being tracked, and all the data on the internet traffic is available for people to purchase.”

- DoD IT specialist and program manager

“Our objective was to find a solution that would allow end-users to interact with websites in a familiar way while keeping potentially malicious and un-inspectable traffic from infecting the network.”

- DoD Communications Department Head

“The Silo Web Isolation Platform allows us to grant access to a more diverse array of websites — only blocking those that violate Department of Defense (DoD) acceptable use policy — while ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our unclassified production network."

- DoD Systems Administrator

“When we are looking at something that’s happening in, say, Russia, we don’t want the Russian site owners to know that the traffic is coming from the U.S. But any link that you click online can be traced back to you, so we must be careful – because the nature of our investigations demands anonymity.”

- DoD IT specialist and program manager

“All those websites that we put on the Silo landing page have credentials that are automatically populated for the users. How convenient is it? They don't need to remember passwords or have to copy paste login credentials every time.”

- DoD IT specialist and program manager

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Want to protect your mission? Download our white paper discussing the role of managed attribution in obfuscating online research and open source collection.

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