# Understanding our Products

> A live overview of every layer in a modern cyber-defense stack — what each one does, how much it matters, and which Yellow Cube vendors deliver it. Pick your organization profile or NIS 2 class, compare vendors side by side, and click gaps to model your full security coverage. Use this comparison matrix to understand the importance of each cybersecurity layer in a modern cyber defense stack. The weights represent the estimated importance of each layer from the total 100%.

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## Content

A live overview of every layer in a modern cyber-defense stack — what each one does, how much it matters, and which Yellow Cube vendors deliver it. Pick your organization profile or NIS 2 class, compare vendors side by side, and click gaps to model your full security coverage. Use this comparison matrix to understand the importance of each cybersecurity layer in a modern cyber defense stack. The weights represent the estimated importance of each layer from the total 100%.

**From essentials to advanced resilience** — Yellow Cube ensures your cybersecurity evolves at the pace of your risks, not your limitations.

### FAQ

#### How are the layer weights calculated, and can I defend them in a customer meeting?

They're our practitioner estimate of how much each layer contributes to a realistic defense posture, summing to 100% — grounded in 20 years of deployments, not a published industry standard. Use it as a planning lens with your customers, not as a benchmark you'd cite against an analyst report; it holds up well in a CISO conversation precisely because it's opinionated.

#### How do I actually use this matrix in a sales conversation?

Pick the customer's organization profile or NIS2 class, walk through which layers are weighted highest, and you've framed the gaps before any vendor names get mentioned. It's a structured way to lead a customer to the budget conversation without sounding like you're just pushing the products you happen to carry.

#### A customer already has tools in some of these layers. Does the matrix still help us position?

Yes — it's most useful for the layers the customer has nothing in at all. Where they already have something that works, leave it alone; where the matrix shows a weighted gap and they have nothing, that's a clean upsell conversation that doesn't require ripping anything out. You can also click any missing capability to mark it as already covered — the score recalculates on the fly, so you walk out of the meeting with a number that reflects the customer's actual posture, not the default.

#### Do we have a Yellow Cube vendor for every layer, or will we have gaps to fill from elsewhere?

Close to complete, by design — one specialist vendor per domain, no internal overlap. The gaps that remain are intentional, and we'll tell you which ones rather than pretending the portfolio covers more than it does; for those, you're free to bring in your own complementary tools without us second-guessing it.

### Let’s Build Smarter Cyber Defenses Together

Partnerships are the foundation of everything we do — built on trust, expertise, and shared success. Whether you’re looking to grow your business, strengthen your cybersecurity offerings, or bring innovative solutions to new markets, Yellow Cube is ready to be your committed, long-term ally.

[Get in touch with Yellow Cube](<mailto:hello@yellowcube.eu?subject=Partnership>)

| Layer | Weight | Compare vendors |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA, SSO, Conditional Access)** Identity & Access Management 🔐 Passwords alone aren't enough. MFA, SSO and conditional-access policies block most credential-stuffing and phishing attempts before they become breaches. | 2% | Imprivata (PAM & medical cybersecurity) Stormshield (network security) |
| **Privileged Access Management (PAM, session recording)** Identity & Access Management 🗝️ Admin and service accounts are the prize. PAM vaults credentials, brokers privileged sessions, and records what powerful users actually do. | 2% | Imprivata (PAM & medical cybersecurity) Teramind (insider threat management) |
| **Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR)** Identity & Access Management 🛡️ Prevention never catches everything — and stolen credentials look legitimate at login. ITDR is the safety net: it spots impossible travel, MFA-fatigue attacks and lateral identity moves while they're happening. The only real detection layer in IAM, so it carries more weight than the prevention controls combined. | 7% | Cynet (AutoXDR) Group-IB (managed XDR & threat intel) Imprivata (PAM & medical cybersecurity) IronScales (email detection & response) Stellar Cyber (AI XDR & SOC platform) Varonis (data-centric detection & response) WithSecure (endpoint & cloud security) |
| **Vulnerability & Patch Management** Vulnerabilities, Patches & Configuration 🩹 Most attacks exploit known bugs that already have a patch. Keeping software up to date closes the easiest doors — basic hygiene for any organization. | 7% | Cynet (AutoXDR) iVerify (mobile cyber defense) OPSWAT (industrial security) WithSecure (endpoint & cloud security) |
| **Security Posture Management (ESPM, CSPM, SSPM)** Vulnerabilities, Patches & Configuration 🧭 Cloud and SaaS breaches usually come from misconfigurations, not zero-days. Posture management spots them before attackers do. | 4% | Cynet (AutoXDR) Group-IB (managed XDR & threat intel) iVerify (mobile cyber defense) OPSWAT (industrial security) Varonis (data-centric detection & response) WithSecure (endpoint & cloud security) |
| **Security Validation / Breach & Attack Simulation** Vulnerabilities, Patches & Configuration 🎯 A security tool is only as good as its real-world performance. Simulated attacks prove your defenses work — and find the gaps. | 4% | Cymulate (security validation / BAS) |
| **Mobile Endpoint Security** Prevention 📱 Phones hold tokens, MFA factors and corporate data — and traditional EDR can't see them. A mobile-specific layer fills that gap. | 3% | Cynet (AutoXDR) iVerify (mobile cyber defense) WithSecure (endpoint & cloud security) |
| **DNS Security & Web Filtering** Prevention 🌐 Almost every attack uses DNS at some point. Blocking malicious lookups is one of the cheapest, highest-impact defenses you can deploy. | 3% | Cynet (AutoXDR) OPSWAT (industrial security) Whalebone (DNS security) WithSecure (endpoint & cloud security) |
| **Email Security (Anti-phishing, BEC, attachment defense)** Prevention 📧 Email is still the #1 way attackers get in. Modern gateways and post-delivery detection stop most phishing and BEC attempts. | 5% | Cynet (AutoXDR) Group-IB (managed XDR & threat intel) IronScales (email detection & response) OPSWAT (industrial security) WithSecure (endpoint & cloud security) |
| **Network Firewall / NGFW / Segmentation** Prevention 🧱 The classic perimeter wall — still essential. Good firewalls and internal segmentation limit how far attackers can move. | 6% | OPSWAT (industrial security) Stormshield (network security) |
| **DDoS & Application/API Protection** Prevention 🌊 Volumetric floods and API abuse can knock public services offline in minutes. NGFWs alone can't absorb that scale. | 2% | A10 Networks (DDoS & API protection) |
| **OT / ICS / Critical Infrastructure Security** Prevention 🏭 Factories, hospitals and utilities can't run modern endpoint agents. Specialist OT/ICS tools defend systems that can't be patched normally. Required for NIS2 Essential entities in Annex I (energy, healthcare, water, transport). | 4% | OPSWAT (industrial security) Stormshield (network security) |
| **Endpoint Detection & Response / Antivirus (EDR/AV)** Detection & Response 💻 Laptops and servers are where attackers land first. Modern EDR watches behavior, not just file hashes, and stops what antivirus misses. | 4% | Cynet (AutoXDR) Group-IB (managed XDR & threat intel) iVerify (mobile cyber defense) WithSecure (endpoint & cloud security) |
| **Network Detection & Response (NDR)** Detection & Response 📡 EDR watches endpoints, NDR watches the wire. Network traffic anomalies, lateral-movement patterns and command-and-control beaconing show up here before they ever surface on an endpoint. | 2% | Cynet (AutoXDR) Group-IB (managed XDR & threat intel) OPSWAT (industrial security) Stellar Cyber (AI XDR & SOC platform) |
| **Cloud Detection & Response (CDR)** Detection & Response ☁️ Cloud workloads have their own attack patterns — risky IAM changes, API abuse, container escapes, suspicious storage access. CDR watches AWS, Azure and GCP control planes and runtime that traditional EDR can't see. | 2% | Cynet (AutoXDR) Group-IB (managed XDR & threat intel) Stellar Cyber (AI XDR & SOC platform) WithSecure (endpoint & cloud security) |
| **Extended Detection & Response (XDR)** Detection & Response 🧩 EDR sees endpoints, NDR sees the network, CDR sees the cloud. XDR is the layer that stitches them together so one attack chain shows up as one story instead of disconnected alerts in separate consoles. | 2% | Cynet (AutoXDR) Group-IB (managed XDR & threat intel) OPSWAT (industrial security) Stellar Cyber (AI XDR & SOC platform) WithSecure (endpoint & cloud security) |
| **SIEM / Log Management** Detection & Response 🛰️ A central place where every log, telemetry stream and detection lives. Required for audit, useful for hunting, and the long-term memory your responders need. | 2% | Cynet (AutoXDR) Stellar Cyber (AI XDR & SOC platform) |
| **Managed Detection & Response (MDR, 24×7 SOC)** Detection & Response 👥 24×7 detection and response delivered as a service. For most organizations a full in-house SOC isn't realistic — MDR fills that gap with vendor analysts watching the consoles around the clock. | 4% | Cynet (AutoXDR) Group-IB (managed XDR & threat intel) WithSecure (endpoint & cloud security) |
| **Incident Response, DFIR & Tabletop Exercises** Detection & Response 🚨 When something does get through, IR plans, runbooks, tabletop exercises and DFIR specialists are the difference between a contained event and a public crisis. | 4% | Cynet (AutoXDR) Group-IB (managed XDR & threat intel) OPSWAT (industrial security) Teramind (insider threat management) WithSecure (endpoint & cloud security) |
| **Insider Threat & User Behavior Analytics (UEBA)** Insider Threat & Data Security 👁️ Trusted accounts — misused by careless employees or attackers wearing them — slip past most perimeter defenses. UEBA catches the odd patterns. | 4% | Cynet (AutoXDR) Imprivata (PAM & medical cybersecurity) Stellar Cyber (AI XDR & SOC platform) Teramind (insider threat management) Varonis (data-centric detection & response) |
| **Data Security & Governance (DAG, classification, DLP)** Insider Threat & Data Security 🗂️ You can only protect data you can see. Classifying and policing sensitive files limits the damage when something slips through. | 6% | Teramind (insider threat management) Varonis (data-centric detection & response) |
| **Security Awareness & Phishing Training** Training & Awareness 🎓 People click links. Training and phishing simulations turn employees from your weakest link into your first line of defense. | 5% | CYBER RANGES (training & simulation) Cymulate (security validation / BAS) IronScales (email detection & response) WithSecure (endpoint & cloud security) |
| **Cyber Range / Hands-on SOC & Defender Skills** Training & Awareness 🥊 Real incidents are stressful and fast. Cyber-range exercises build the muscle memory your SOC needs before it's tested for real. | 3% | CYBER RANGES (training & simulation) |
| **Threat Intelligence (feeds, IOCs, TTPs, adversary profiles)** Supply Chain & Threat Intelligence 🕵️ TI feeds tell your SIEM, EDR and analysts what to look for. Without it, your detection stack is chasing yesterday's signatures while today's campaigns roll through. | 2% | Cynet (AutoXDR) Group-IB (managed XDR & threat intel) OPSWAT (industrial security) Stellar Cyber (AI XDR & SOC platform) Whalebone (DNS security) WithSecure (endpoint & cloud security) |
| **Digital Risk Protection (dark web, brand, leaked credentials)** Supply Chain & Threat Intelligence 🕸️ Your brand, leaked credentials and source code show up online before you know it. DRP watches the dark web, paste sites, code repos and social platforms so you spot exposures before adversaries weaponize them. | 1% | Group-IB (managed XDR & threat intel) |
| **Backup, Archival & Business Continuity** Backup & Encryption 💾 Backups decide whether ransomware is a bad week or a company-ending event — and they keep regulators happy too. | 6% | MailStore (email archival) |
| **Encryption (at rest, in transit)** Backup & Encryption 🔒 When other controls fail, encryption limits the damage — and it's often required by regulators (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI). | 4% | A10 Networks (DDoS & API protection) MailStore (email archival) |

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