[July 26, 2016] |
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RiskIQ Provides Faster and More Advanced Security Threat Detection Using the MapR Platform
MapR
Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry's only Converged Data
Platform, today announced that RiskIQ, the leader in external threat
management, is using the MapR Converged Data Platform to
cost-effectively provide faster and more comprehensive threat detection
on extremely large datasets.
RiskIQ's external threat management platform scans, analyzes and stores
entire websites, mobile app stores, and social media outlets across the
entire internet. As the amount of data and sophistication of security
threats grew, RiskIQ wanted to be able to provide their clients with
faster and more comprehensive threat detection analysis in an economical
way. RiskIQ selected the MapR Platform and has been using it as a
distributed storage system for several years. More recently the company
is using MapR with Apache Spark, Hive, Parquet, and Oozie and has
successfully introduced new threat detections product offerings for
their customers.
"The MapR file system architecture is something we appreciated from the
start," said Chris Kiernan, RiskIQ CTO and co-founder. "We knew we could
leverage MapR for almost anything we wanted to do. With the node
management and the way clustering is done, we always knew it was built
in the right way if we needed to do analysis."
RiskIQ's 100 web crawlers collect about 10-20 TBs data each day from
across the Internet. This number continues to grow as RiskIQ adds depth
and new datasets to their crawl data. In order to reduce the size of the
data, the company developed a technique to create Parquet files from raw
crawl data that are 10x smaller and sent via NFS into their warehouse
for analysis. "We can query an entire day's worth of files in minutes
instead of hours," said Kiernan. "There are all kinds of things we can
do, now that we have the data in a compact format. It's a central part
of our architecture."
MapR architecture increases efficiency and reduces costs RiskIQ
was able to keep costs down by building the new data analysis use case
on top of their existing MapR cluster. "We continue to use the cluster
as a production file system while, at the same time, we've built an
entire warehouse using the same infrastructure for a very small price
point," said Kiernan. "We have been able to cut Capex and Opex in half.
We would hae had to pay twice as much to build a vanilla Hadoop
cluster. If we had built this in Cloudera, we would have needed separate
clusters for production and analytics. It wouldn't be a dual-purpose
system."
Comprehensive and reliable platform "The fact that MapR
makes sure that everything is compatible has worked really well. If we
want to try a new technology, we can install it and it's ready to use,"
said Adam Hunt, RiskIQ's chief data scientist. "In my previous job, I
worked with vanilla Hadoop, and the cluster did go down. That's just not
acceptable. We've never had that issue with MapR. It's rock solid. We
don't see performance degradation no matter what we do to the cluster
and upgrades are seamless."
New capabilities provide competitive advantage With the MapR
Platform, RiskIQ has developed new product offerings that has allowed
them to push new types of data into their application that helps them
understand things about websites they may not have understood before.
"We have built all new parts of our products based on this new analysis,
so it has been absolutely instrumental to our host reputation service.
We can now answer all of the ad hoc questions we could never answer
before to provide even more advanced detection for our clients. It's
improving the way we run the business," said Kiernan.
"RiskIQ has cost-effectively added extremely large datasets, developed
new products and powerful new analytics for threat detection
capabilities utilizing their existing, reliable MapR cluster," said Jack
Norris, senior vice president, data and applications, MapR Technologies.
"The MapR Platform has enabled customers like RiskIQ to achieve results
never before attainable, proving our system is designed for
mission-critical performance that can yield a measurable competitive
advantage."
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About RiskIQ RiskIQ is a cybersecurity company that helps
organizations discover and protect their external facing known, unknown
and 3rd party web, mobile and social digital assets. The company's
External Threat Management platform combines a worldwide proxy network
with synthetic clients that emulate users to monitor, detect and take
down malicious and copycat apps, drive by malware and malvertisements.
RiskIQ is being used by leading financial institutions and other
companies to protect their web assets and users from external security
threats and fraud. We are headquartered in San Francisco, backed by
growth equity firms Summit Partners and Battery Ventures.
About MapR Technologies MapR enables organizations to create
disruptive advantage and long-term value from their data with the
industry's only Converged Data Platform, which delivers distributed
processing, real-time analytics, and enterprise grade requirements
across cloud and on-premise environments, while leveraging the
significant on-going development in open source technologies including
Spark and Hadoop. Organizations with the most demanding production
needs, including sub-second response for fraud prevention, secure and
highly available data-driven insights for better healthcare, petabyte
analysis for threat detection, and integrated operational and analytic
processing for improved customer experiences, run on MapR. A majority of
customers achieves payback in fewer than 12 months and realizes greater
than 5X ROI. MapR ensures customer success through world-class
professional services and with free on-demand training that over 50,000
developers, data analysts and administrators have used to close the big
data skills gap. Amazon, Cisco, Google, HPE, Microsoft, SAP, and
Teradata (News - Alert) are part of the worldwide MapR partner ecosystem. Investors
include Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA,
Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. Connect with MapR on LinkedIn,
and Twitter.
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