The GSN 2015 Digital Yearbook

CyberArk
2015 Winner
GSN 2015 DIGITAL YEARBOOK OF HOMELAND SECURITY AWARDS RECIPIENTS
IT Security Products and Solutions
Awards Category:
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Best Continuous Monitoring and Mitigation Solution
Name of Nominated Product, Service,
or Program:
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CyberArk Privileged Threat Analytics
Reason this entry deserves to win:
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The devastating cyberattacks on Sony Pictures, Anthem
and U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) demonstrate
that today’s cyber security battle has shifted
from the perimeter to inside the IT network. Once
inside a targeted network, attackers immediately seek
to steal and exploit privileged accounts – the gateway
to sensitive and valuable information. Attackers exploit
these accounts to navigate the system, conduct reconnaissance
and escalate privileges – all while impersonating
authorized users. In fact, industry research indicates
that privileged credential exploitation is a signature in
almost every advanced attack. That’s why organizations
need to be proactively monitoring and recording all
privileged activity to ensure attackers – whether they’re
outside hackers or malicious insiders – are not able to
gain access to critical networks, move laterally across
the network to the target goal, or exfiltrate data without
detection. CyberArk Privileged Threat Analytics detects,
alerts and responds to cyber attacks by collecting, monitoring
and analyzing privileged account data, including
activity from the CyberArk Vault, and data feeds from
security information and event management (SIEM)
systems to identify and lessen the most serious of risks.
This solution enables incident response teams to identify
an attack in real time, take the necessary steps to
mitigate the attack and reduce damage. Through industry-leading
analytics, including self-learning, behaviorbased
algorithms, CyberArk enables customers to detect
attacks faster by pinpointing malicious privileged account
activity previously hidden in the sheer volume of
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