Our goal: To Secure Your Digital Supply Chain
In today’s hyperconnected world, technological advancement and global interdependence have unlocked immense opportunity—but they’ve also introduced powerful new vulnerabilities. Threat actors now exploit these dependencies to launch hybrid attacks that combine physical and cyber tactics, targeting critical infrastructure sectors that underpin the U.S. economy, defense, and essential services like energy, food, transportation, and finance. As the attack surface expands—from physical assets and proprietary data to insider threats and geopolitical risk—the need for integrated, adaptive security has never been greater. AXE55 stands at the forefront of this effort, securing the digital supply chain across national security platforms through advanced threat detection, operational intelligence, and multidomain defense strategies. Backed by decades of experience in intelligence and network security, we deliver the tools, insights, and proactive solutions needed to protect the infrastructure and innovations that power and protect the nation.
What is Digital Supply Chain Insights
AXE55 Digital Supply Chain Insights (DSCI) is an information discovery platform that reveals hidden risks across software, hardware, and vendor ecosystems. DSCI cuts information discovery time by ~1000x, transforming fragmented information into a single source of truth for threat hunting and digital supply chain assurance. Designed for zero trust environments, DSCI exposes vulnerabilities across code, vendors, and infrastructure—factoring in technical flaws, opaque ownership, and geopolitical threats. At the core of DSCI is the AXE55 developed STRIKE methodology, a structured framework that scores six critical dimensions—Security, Trust, Reliability, Intrusion, Knowledge, and Exploitation—to detect vulnerabilities before they’re exploited and investigate incidents with precision.
AXE55 delivers both on-premises and off-premises deployments of DSCI as well as business intelligence products designed for the decerning decision maker who simply needs to ask a question and get a clear, actionable answer.
What is STRIKE
At the core of DSCI’s assessment engine is our proprietary STRIKE framework, a modern risk model designed specifically for digital and physical environments. STRIKE replaces traditional, often subjective methodologies with a structured evaluation across six dimensions:
- Security (S):
Evaluates an asset’s resilience against common threats, including its patch level, vulnerability history, encryption use, and exposure to known attack surfaces.
- Trust (T):
Assesses the legitimacy and verifiability of an asset’s provenance—such as cryptographic signing, known maintainers, and transparent organizational ownership.
- Reliability (R):
Determines whether the system can withstand faults or tampering. Key considerations include graceful failure, rapid recovery, and stable input handling.
- Intrusion (I):
Measures the likelihood and impact of unauthorized access. Factors include exposed APIs, default credentials, and misconfigurations that create system entry points.
- Knowledge (K):
Examines how much operational visibility exists into the component—looking at telemetry, logging of updates, communications, and monitored usage patterns.
- Exploitation (E):
Explores the potential for the asset to be used as a steppingstone—whether to propagate malware, manipulate other systems, or cause broader harm within the digital supply chain.
The STRIKE analysis is used pre-incident to identify risk, and post-incident to illuminate the source and cause of an incident. STRIKE is a repeating analytical cycle applied to every threat, uncovering sub-tier risks across the digital supply chain and delivering mitigation strategies that can be applied immediately.
"Risk discovery - Real time defense"
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