Adaptive Security Extended End-To-End

By Christine Kern, contributing writer

Industry’s first end-to-end adaptive security technology proves to be disruptive.

As companies pursue digital business transformation, security and risk management remain a concern. Most CIOs and CEOs acknowledge the digital world is creating new types and levels of business risk, and that investment in risk management is not keeping up as Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016: Adaptive Security Architecture report demonstrated.

Organizations rely too much on blocking and prevention mechanisms that are decreasingly effective against advanced attacks. Comprehensive protection requires an adaptive protection process to predict, prevent, detect, and respond to security breaches.

According to Gartner, “The complexities of digital business and the algorithmic economy combined with an emerging ‘hacker industry’ significantly increase the threat surface for an organization. Relying on perimeter defense and rule-based security is inadequate, especially as organizations exploit more cloud-based services and open APIs for customers and partners to integrate with their systems. IT leaders must focus on detecting and responding to threats, as well as more traditional blocking and other measures to prevent attack. Application, self-protection, as well as user and entity behavior analytics, will help fulfill the adaptive security architecture.”

Now, Nuix has introduced Nuix Insight Adaptive Security, and endpoint security platform that integrates cybersecurity threat prevention, detection, response, remediation, and deception in one solution. “Previous attempts at applying an adaptive model to security software have failed because they’ve ineffectively cobbled together several overlapping tools that were never intended to work with each other, creating a sort of ‘security Frankenstein,’” explained Nuix CEO Eddie Sheehy.

The new solution combines six security technologies into one lightweight, intelligent endpoint agent. “I always get excited when I run across a product designed, built, and refined by experienced security practitioners”, said Adrian Sanabria, Senior Security Analyst at 451 Research. “The endpoint has long been a blind spot for enterprises, partially because they just generate too much data.

“Without a vendor that understands how to manage that data properly-how to filter and prioritize it — there's a high likelihood that continuous endpoint recording products will create more problems than they address. It is crucial these products avoid adding to the existing toxic problems of information overload and alert fatigue that security practitioners are struggling with.”