DATA SECURITY,PLATFORM SECURITY,SOFTWARE SECURITY
Armorblox | December 26, 2022
Contents
1. Enhancement in the Company’s Email Security Solutions
2. How is Enhancements in the Solution Benefiting the Customers?
Armorblox, anemerging email security solutions provider, recently announced the inclusion of Custom Role-Based Access Controls to its innovative cloud-delivered email security platform for enhancing the maintenance of data compliance and reducing data blindspots for individuals across the organization.
Not every email is the same. When it comes to incoming threats, attackers tend to focus on emails that involve sensitive credentials or valuable data. According to the Armorblox Email Security Threat Report, in 2022, 87% of credential phishing attacks looked like common corporate workflows to trick victims, and 70% of spoofing attacks got past native email security layers.
Thus, Armorblox has made improvements to Armorblox Advanced Data Loss Prevention and added Custom Role-Based Access Controls to make it safer from insider threats (RBAC).
1. Enhancement in the Company’s Email Security Solutions
"According to a recent Market Research Future study, the demand for email security is anticipated to exceed US$ 11 billion by 2030."
Armorblox has always been committed to putting security first, and this dedication goes beyond offering a best-in-class email security solution. Armorblox Advanced Data Loss Prevention's enhanced capabilities ensure that customers' most sensitive information is reliably protected across all content types and storage mediums. Coupled with its Armorblox Custom DLP Policies, companies are now able to set automated encryption actions and exceptions for sensitive data and confidential content per department or per user.
Armorblox Custom Role-Based Access Controls provide fine-grained controls to security teams, which are necessary to set restriction levels and access for individuals, teams, and groups across the organization.
2. How is Enhancements in the Solution Benefiting the Customers?
Through the enhancements to the Advanced DLP solution and the addition of Custom Role-Based Access Controls to the Armorblox platform, Armorblox is supporting the security-first approach that companies require. Customers will benefit in a variety of ways, including:
Custom Access Controls: Create and assign custom roles with granular permissions to groups or individuals across security teams based on their job responsibilities.
Sensitive Data Encryption: Prevent unauthorized disclosure of PII, PCI, and PHI by identifying and encrypting sensitive data across emails, attachments, and documents automatically.
Reduce Data Blindspots: Ensure the implementation of appropriate restrictions and access levels for employee, organization, and third-party data.
About Armorblox
Founded in 2017, Armorblox is an email security solutions company headquartered in California, U.S., backed by Next47 and General Catalyst. The company provides technology that secures enterprise communications over email and other cloud office applications by leveraging deep learning and natural language technologies. The Armorblox platforms connect via APIs and analyze millions of signals to comprehend the context of communications in order to safeguard individuals and data from compromise. Over 58,000 enterprises use Armorblox to prevent BEC and targeted phishing attacks, protect critical PII and PCI, and automate the repair of user-reported email threats.
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DATA SECURITY,PLATFORM SECURITY,SOFTWARE SECURITY
Immuta | January 20, 2023
On January 19, 2023, Immuta, a leading data security firm, announced the launch of its latest product, Immuta Detect. Immuta Detect notifies data and security teams about unsafe data access behavior with its continuous data security monitoring capabilities, therby enabling faster and more accurate risk response and improved data security posture management across advanced and modern cloud data platforms.
The product is the new vital component of Immuta's comprehensive Data Security Platform that offers security and access control, data activity monitoring and sensitive data discovery. The platform uniquely integrates with the leading cloud data platforms along with existing SIEM and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) tools.
As data sources and users in modern cloud settings increase, monitoring data usage and responding to threats becomes more challenging. This is critical for safeguarding against insider threats and adhering to rules and regulations. Existing strategies to solve these problems include manual and time-consuming audits of millions of log data records housed in disparate data sources. To stay up with business demands, data and security teams need improved ways for monitoring data access, address issues precisely, and quickly adjust to shifting risk appetites.
With Immuta Detect, customers can swiftly surface and prioritize data usage risks, decrease time to risk mitigation, and maintain data security by utilizing the following new features:
Advanced access behavior analytics - Immuta Detect consolidates data access logs, allowing data and security teams to continuously monitor and evaluate changes in user behavior and data access entitlements by source, user activity or query, as well as get insight into changes in data classification and security configuration.
Sensitive data views and indicators – The company offers a detailed analysis of each user and data activity in depth, summarizing activity across multiple criteria such as time frame, data access event categorization, sensitive data indicators, and most active data sources.
Risk severity detection and scoring - It automatically scores data based on its sensitivity and security, thereby enabling data and security teams to prioritize risks and receive real-time notifications about potential security incidents.
About Immuta
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Boston, MA, Immuta is a leading cloud data access control provider. It offers data engineering and operations teams a unified platform for controlling access to analytical data sets in the cloud. Additionally, it helps businesses extract value from their cloud data by securing it and giving secure access. It automates access control for any type of data on any cloud service and across any computing infrastructure. The company is now trusted for data security by Fortune 500 organizations and government agencies all around the world.
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PLATFORM SECURITY,SOFTWARE SECURITY
VIPRE Security Group | January 19, 2023
VIPRE Security Group, an award-winning data, cybersecurity, privacy, and user protection company, recently announced the launch of its latest cybersecurity product, VIPRE Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR). VIPRE EDR is built to assist small and medium-sized businesses including their IT partners navigate the intricacies of EDR management with a single, simple-to-use console.
VIPRE EDR provides a sophisticated high-performance, cloud-based solution while overcoming the problems users typically expect from an EDR solution. . This advanced technology detect better and uncovers more unusual behavior than a standalone antivirus file, process, and networking analysis solutions, while offering investigation and remediation tools to accelerate response times.
The VIPRE EDR solution is based on the fundamental pillars of Detection, Investigation, Containment, and Remediation, transforming threats into intelligence and suggesting next steps for security professionals, as simply detecting a threat is insufficient.
Advantages of VIPRE's Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) System:
Exploit prevention – It helps to prevent network threats with built-in DNS , intrusion protection and in-browser exploit prevention
EPP/Next-generation Antivirus - VIPRE EDR, constantly scans processes, files, and network activity for known and undiscovered threats
Correlated Behavior Engine - Examine endpoint behavior in greater depth to identify emergent or suspicious behavior connected across all engines
Endpoint Isolation – Quickly isolates an afflicted device to prevent threat spreading
Threat Incident Visualization – View and respond to all threat activity from a central location. Understand all aspects of endpoint activity related to the threat, including every user, process, file, and network activity
Remote Shell - VIPRE EDR's click-button reporting enables admins instant remote access to the endpoint for a deeper look
Suspicious file/link sandboxing - Detonates files and links in a private cloud sandbox for comprehensive examination and forensic investigation
Integrated Vulnerability Management - App scanning and vulnerability management to close potential security gaps
Built on the foundation of VIPRE's top-ranked Endpoint Security Cloud (EPP) platform, protection begins with extensive monitoring and automated blocking of malicious behavior across all endpoint processes, files, and network activity. This protection includes web, DNS and network monitoring, as well as AI-driven hostile process behavior detection.
About VIPRE Security Group
A part of Ziff Davis, Inc., VIPRE Security Group is a global organization specializing in cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection. It protects millions of people and businesses globally, including some very well-known brands. . For nearly 30 years, VIPRE Security Group's primary mission has been to provide easy solutions to protect against existing and potential internet threats in an ever-expanding, digitally connected world.
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