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Awake Security Introduces World's First Privacy-Aware Security Expert System, 'Ava,' To Power Autonomous Threat Hunting & TriageAwake Security, the only advanced network traffic analysis (NTA (News - Alert)) company that delivers a privacy-aware solution, today unveiled several new capabilities of its Awake Security Platform that greatly amplify the abilities of existing security teams. Foremost among these innovations is Ava, the world's first privacy-aware security expert system. Ava combines federated machine learning (ML) and open source intelligence with expertise from Awake threat researchers and security analysts to identify multi-stage attacks and enable automatic threat validation and triage. By using Awake's comprehensive knowledge of the network, Ava delivers triaged and actionable incidents rather than the often meaningless alerts provided by traditional security solutions. Customers receive a visual incident report that drives faster comprehension, and ultimately speedier reaction and resolution by security teams. "With more than 50 billion connected devices in the market today, networks can be exceedingly complex with architectures and configurations that impede security visibility, detection and response," said David Monahan, managing research director at EMA (News - Alert). "This has led to average attacker dwell times around 195 days, providing malicious actors more than enough time to do significant damage. Awake Security is addressing these issues with its autonomous hunting, which uncovers full kill-chain incidents and agentless device profiling that enriches the incident report with asset-based context, ultimately allowing security teams to prioritize based on business impact." "Delivering context-rich and correlated incidents rather than alerts ensures that Awake is part of the solution rather than the alert-noise problem," said Rahul Kashyap, president and CEO at Awake Security. "Importantly, we designed Ava as an expert system that uses federated machine learning. This has the added benefit of delivering powerful capabilities while always keeping identifiable information within the customer environment. It is extremely fulfilling to see the results and how we are helping change the power dynamic back in favor of our customers when it comes to threat detection and response." Ava empowers Awake's customers with:
To learn more about the Awake Security Platform and to see use cases outlining how global organizations use Awake to combat threats such as credential abuse insider attacks, lateral movement and data exfiltration, please visit https://awakesecurity.com/product. Awake will be offering live demonstrations of the Awake Security Platform at RSA (News - Alert) Conference, from March 4-9, 2019 in San Francisco, in the North Hall at booth #N4328. For more information or to schedule a meeting at the show, visit https://awakesecurity.com/awake-at-rsa/.
About Awake Security Awake is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA (News - Alert) and backed by Greylock Partners and Bain Capital Ventures. Learn more at https://www.awakesecurity.com and follow Awake on Twitter (News - Alert) (https://twitter.com/awakesecurity), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/awake-security) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/AwakeSecurity). View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190304005079/en/ |