Featured Hackathon Projects

Welcome to our showcase of innovative projects from the SecurityScorecard API Hackathon! This event centered around the theme: "Secure your Digital Landscape: API-Driven Supply Chain Risk Management." While this theme provided a guiding focus, participants also had the freedom to explore other innovative use cases and build custom solutions using the SecurityScorecard API to tackle their specific organizational pain points. The goal was to leverage the API to devise practical solutions that enhance visibility, automate detection, and streamline response processes for various cyber risks.

The creativity and technical skill demonstrated were exceptional, showcasing diverse approaches to addressing critical security concerns. Below, we highlight some of the standout projects from the hackathon, each offering a unique perspective on utilizing the SecurityScorecard API. We encourage you to explore these projects for inspiration, download them to use directly in your workflows, examine their code to learn API best practices, or even fork and customize them to perfectly fit your own company's needs.

Product Usage Search Tool

Quickly identify vendor product usage to assess product-specific risks.

Creator: Kent Co

Project Overview: This Jupyter notebook project is a powerful asset for security teams, designed to rapidly identify which vendors or suppliers within a portfolio might be affected by a newly discovered product-related security breach, vulnerability, or service outage. The tool efficiently scans large lists of vendors by leveraging the SecurityScorecard API.

Key Features:

Configurable concurrency for speed.
Memory-efficient scanning for handling extensive data.
Multi-threaded processing for faster execution.
Real-time progress tracking to monitor its status.
In-memory data caching, which creates a searchable database of vendor-product relationships for instant searches.

How it can help your workflow:

Rapid Impact Assessment: When a new vulnerability is announced for a specific software or hardware product, you can use this tool to instantly search across your entire vendor portfolio to see who uses that product and might be at risk.
Proactive Risk Hunting: Regularly scan for outdated or known vulnerable products within your supply chain.
Efficient Vendor Questionnaires: Instead of broad questions, use this to target specific vendors with precise queries about products they are known to use.
Streamlined Onboarding: Quickly assess the product stack of potential new vendors.

Download: GitHub

Breach Impact on Stock Price

Analyzing the financial impact of security breaches on public company stock prices.

Creator: Yusuf Elazzazi

Project Overview: This innovative project explores the correlation between security breaches and the financial performance of publicly traded companies. Using the SecurityScorecard API, it identifies companies within a portfolio that have experienced breaches and the specific timing of those incidents.

Methodology:

Pulls the stock ticker information for these companies.
Integrates with Yahoo Finance to analyze stock price fluctuations one week before and one week after the breach.
Calculates any discernible price change.

How it can help your workflow:

Financial Risk Quantification: Provide data-driven insights into the potential financial repercussions of a security breach on your own organization or key publicly traded vendors.
Vendor Risk Management: Add a financial risk dimension to your third-party risk assessments. Understanding how a vendor's stock is affected by breaches can indicate their resilience and market confidence.
Executive & Board Reporting: Use the findings to illustrate the tangible financial consequences of cyber incidents, strengthening the case for security investments.
Investment Due Diligence: For teams involved in financial analysis, this tool can offer a unique lens on company stability and risk.

Download: GitHub

SecurityScorecard Portfolio Visualization

Visually mapping portfolio and company connections to uncover hidden risks.

Creator: Marc Hoffmann

Project Overview: This project addresses the challenge of intuitively understanding the complex web of connections between portfolios and companies within SecurityScorecard, which often presents data in tabular formats. It introduces a browser-based user interface that creates a visual connection graph.

Key Capabilities:

Shows companies within a single portfolio and also maps out connections across different portfolios.
Color-codes companies based on their overall SecurityScorecard score.
Allows users to visually identify risk concentrations and explore the potential security implications of issues shared between interconnected companies.

How it can help your workflow:

Visual Risk Identification: Easily spot high-risk vendors or clusters of interconnected entities that might pose a cascading risk.
Understanding Complex Relationships: Uncover hidden dependencies or shared third/fourth parties that might not be obvious from a list view.
Stakeholder Communication: Present portfolio risk and interconnectedness in a clear, visual, and engaging way to non-technical audiences.
Strategic Portfolio Management: Gain a more holistic view of your digital ecosystem to make informed decisions about vendor consolidation or diversification.

Download: GitHub