Behavior Analysis: New Weapon To Fight Hackers

Israeli startup Cybereason says it breaks new security ground by spotting deviations in employee behavior and telling companies what to do next.

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As the hacking pandemic sweeps through companies, a startup says analytics can help. Cybereason, co-founded by Lior Div, a former cybercrime expert in the Israeli intelligence agency, uses new algorithms to fight what it calls malops -- malicious operations perpetrated by hackers who break into a companys network.
Almost every CEO is aware that their company is going to be breached. They need to understand how to stop those malops once the breach occurs, Div told InformationWeek
.
The bad guys are winning now. If they want to conduct a hacking operation on a company, they will.
One is tempted to remind Div, Cybereasons CEO, that King Harry follows, Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, with, or close the wall up with our English dead. Though the first line of defense is a major focal point of cybersecurity, Cybereason is far from alone in trying to do something about hackers once theyve infiltrated a company. As weve been reminded in the last few months, mostly we fail in our efforts to stop hackers, government and otherwise, from rooting around in our systems.
But Cybereason says it can do two things that others have not been able to do: it breaks down deviations in behavior, such as when an employee who usually uses Word and Excel appears online after hours using network administrator tools. It then gives recommendations on what a company should do about it.
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Cybereason installs an agent at a number of company network endpoints, which feeds data to a Cybereason server. The company then does a series of analytics on the data it receives, and makes recommendations from them. Mark Taber, the companys vice president of marketing and sales, said Cybereason is like a security analyst that you hired and is sitting in your environment and hunting for malicious operations continuously... without going to sleep or the restroom.
What theyre doing is putting in the actual knowledge of what a bad actor would do in their technology -- canning a hacker, if you will, said Jon Oltsik, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass., who had been briefed on the product and shown a demo.
Div said Cybereason wrote its own info graphics language to let it do things such as illustrate a malops timeline, to help companies look at potentially malicious behavior in a new way. Cybereason then automatically makes recommendations about what actions the company might take.
Oltsik said Cybereasons recommendations could fill a need. He said even if there werent a security skills shortage, companies would want something like Cybereasons recommendation engine. Theyve automated security analytics, Oltsik said. Even companies that are really, really good at this would welcome it.
Cybereason started two years ago, and drew $4.6 million in funding from Charles River Ventures in May 2013. It is based in Cambridge, Mass., with a research team in Israel. It was in stealth mode until Tuesday. Its product, which can be hosted by customers on-premises or by Cybereason, is still not publicly available. Div said it would probably be generally available in a couple of months. For now, the company has given some large and small companies early access to the product.
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