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JASK Expands Elite Cyber Threat Hunting 'SpecOps' Team
JASK,
the provider of the industry's first Autonomous Security Operations
Center (ASOC) platform, today announced the expansion of its
customer-driven threat-hunting-as-service offering, JASK
Special Operations. Based on significant customer demand since its launch
in May 2018, JASK deepened the team's elite talent with the addition of
accomplished threat hunters, incident responders and researchers from
organizations including IBM (News - Alert) X-Force, RiskIQ and the U.S. Department of
Defense (DoD).
JASK SpecOps augments clients' existing cyber staff to reduce the
time-to-value for the JASK ASOC platform while empowering teams with
dedicated resources to apply the latest tactics, techniques and
procedures to defend critical assets from advanced cyberattacks. The
service has grown 500 percent since its introduction in May, and the
team currently conducts about 50 investigations per month, of which 15
percent are ruled active incidents.
The JASK SpecOps team is comprised of top talent from elite cyber units
across industry-leading cybersecurity companies and U.S. government
organizations. Members include:
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Kevin Stear is the lead threat analyst and founding member of
JASK SpecOps. Kevin is responsible for the team's day-to-day
operations which include threat hunting, related research, and
strategic and tactical analytic/logic creation. A 17-year veteran of
the DoD, Kevin was previously on the RSA (News - Alert) FirstWatch team and held a
key information security role with Aetna.
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Darren Spruell, senior threat analyst, was a threat researcher
with RiskIQ and brings deep experience using intelligence-driven
countermeasures to help customers build defensible environents and
instruments that provide visibility and control.
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Brian Gardiner, senior threat analyst, previously worked as a
senior incident response analyst with IBM X-Force IRIS and at Aetna as
the information security advisor for the Security Data Analytics team.
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Greg Longo, senior threat analyst, has cybersecurity experience
in both the public and private sectors. Greg has been with the U.S.
Air Force and Air National Guard since 2002 and currently serves as a
Communications Squadron Commander. Prior to JASK, Greg was the global
threat management lead at Covestro and held a number of technical
positions at CERT, part of the Software Engineering Institute at
Carnegie Mellon University.
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Ellie Soto, threat analyst, brings over seven years of
experience with the DoD as a digital network vulnerability analyst.
Part of Ellie's tenure with the DoD was held while deployed in
Afghanistan and while stationed at Fort Meade in Maryland.
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David McEwan, threat analyst, has over 10 years of experience
in cybersecurity with previous positions in healthcare and financial
services. Prior to JASK, David worked as a senior security operations
specialist for Akamai (News - Alert) Technologies, where he was involved in
mitigating a number of high-profile campaigns targeting a broad
spectrum of industries.
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Matrixed team members include Rod Soto, director of security
research and board member of HackMiami; Ben Norton, an
invaluable engineering resource; as well as Daniel Smallwood
and Carlos Castillo of Threat Engineering, a team dedicated to
creating and delivering the emerging threat content to the product.
"As more of our customers bolster their investment in the JASK ASOC
platform by taking advantage of the SpecOps service, it's exciting to
see the team grow with the addition of such extraordinary talent," said
Greg Martin, JASK CEO and co-founder. "This elite team of threat hunters
continues to offer JASK ASOC customers a new level of value by employing
the latest tactics and techniques to defend customers' critical assets
from advanced cyberattacks."
For a flat subscription fee (20 percent of software licensing costs),
the SpecOps team works directly with JASK ASOC customers to derive
increased value from the platform, as well as share best practices and
intelligence on emerging threats. The full range of SpecOps customer
benefits include:
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Active hunting and notification services
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Routine collaborative hunting sessions
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Root cause and malware analysis
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Incident investigation, mitigation, and recovery support
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Custom incident and threat assessment reports
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Behavioral and discrete content creation
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Access to crowdsourced JASK threat intelligence
"As a long-time customer of JASK, we've always been impressed with the
unheard of level of customer support the team offers us," said Lewis
Brodnax III, chief security officer, GreenSky. "With the volume of
traditional alerts growing exponentially, we can't possibly train enough
staff to manage the deluge of data, but the artificial intelligence
capabilities of the JASK ASOC platform have made my security team more
effective than ever before. We're now excited to work side-by-side with
JASK SpecOps to further strengthen our team and benefit from the
knowledge of some of the best threat hunters in the industry."
To learn more about JASK Special Operations, please visit https://jask.com/solutions/special-ops/.
About JASK JASK is modernizing security operations to reduce
organizational risk and improve human efficiency. Through technology
consolidation, enhanced AI and machine learning, the JASK Autonomous
Security Operations Center (ASOC) platform automates the correlation and
analysis of threat alerts, helping SOC analysts focus on
highest-priority threats, streamlining investigations and delivering
faster response times. www.jask.com
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