New RSA Solution Takes Customers from Hunted to Hunter

By: Grant Geyer, Vice President, Security Analytics at RSA

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Nov 14, 2014, 09:00 ET

HOPKINTON, Mass., Nov. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- When I meet with customers, I'm always intrigued by how they perceive their organization's cyber risk relative to their security program's maturity. These conversations are invaluable in guiding the development of our product strategy. Over the past few years, though, I've noticed a change in tone. Practitioners charged with building and maintaining their security programs seem overwhelmed. Enterprises are in survival mode – under an increasing volume of attacks. Targeted attacks are becoming harder and harder to detect and low priority infections are being ignored. They have become accustomed to their networks being in a constant state of compromise.

Intelligence Driven Threat Detection and Response

To aid in this fight, we are bringing some relief to the market. The new RSA Advanced Security Operation Center (ASOC) Solution integrates RSA Security Analytics, RSA ECAT, RSA Archer Security Operations and RSA Advanced Cyber Defense training and services to help customers go from reactive to proactive – from hunted to hunter. With capabilities designed to detect not just common suspicious activity, but also find and investigate the most lethal and stealthy attacks, security teams can focus on the biggest risks to their infrastructure.

The truth is most organizations today ARE under relentless attack and they lack the tools to fight back effectively. Security teams desperately need a new plan of attack – one that tips the scale back in their favor. RSA ASOC Solution is a powerful weapon that does just that by helping to improve visibility, analytical firepower and ability to take action:

Visibility: Moving beyond basic SIEM, RSA ASOC is engineered to offer a single monitoring platform that combines logs, network packets, NetFlow and endpoint visibility to help security teams see the enemy no matter where they are hiding.
Analysis: Leveraging real-time analytics, Big Data analytics, content of the latest threats and data science modules helps security teams understand the data collected to detect lethal threats and avoid sneak attacks, without the need to have data scientists on staff.
Action: A prioritized incident management queue and analyst workflow helps teams operate with speed and precision. Prioritizing incidents, and being able to pivot from detection to an investigation helps focus on the most important ones.

One thing is certain, attackers will continue to get stronger and the threat landscape will continue to expand. Because of this, organizations have no choice but to evolve from outdated philosophies. As they progress on their security journey, the RSA ASOC solution enables them to deploy the capabilities they need today, and add new functionality in the future when needed. Finally – they are no longer the hunted – but now, have the tools to be the hunter.

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