ESG recommends a new level of integration between incident detection and response technologies to help organizations overcome skills shortages, silos of SOC and NOC information, and complex triage processes
Boston, MA, June 18, 2014— In a new whitepaper, sponsored by Bradford Networks™, the leading provider of rapid threat response solutions, leading analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) recommends a new approach to cyber security that focuses on rapid detection and response to help organizations lower risk, improve security, and streamline IT security operations. The whitepaper is available here http://bit.ly/1gQpxYj free of charge.
According to ESG, after years of settling for “good enough” IT security, enterprise organizations are now realizing that this is no longer an adequate approach. This change of heart can be directly linked to the recent wave of sophisticated malware, targeted attacks, advanced persistent threats (APTs), and visible security breaches. Rather than settling for the required coverage that demonstrates internal and external compliance, business executives are now asking tough questions about cyber security risk and are even willing to throw money at the problem. According to ESG research, 62% of organizations plan to increase their security budgeting in 2014[1].Additionally, 32% of all organizations surveyed consider information security initiatives to be one of their top spending priorities in the coming year.
Regrettably however, many CISOs continue to take a tactical approach. They are buying products, consolidating tools, and shifting around personnel, yet are failing to deal with the systemic problems associated with threat detection and incident response.
A new ESG whitepaper, Reducing the Critical Time from Incident Detection to Containment, describes a visionary approach for threat detection and continuous response that helps organizations greatly reduce the impact, time and costs of dealing with cyber attacks. Through this approach, ESG recommends an integrated and correlated architecture that encompasses incident response, security alerts, and endpoint visualization, access, and security (EVAS) to help organizations overcome their current challenges with skills shortages, silos of SOC (security operations center) and NOC (network operations center) information, and complex triage processes.
“In a world of increasingly sophisticated threats, a closed-loop, fully-automated cycle for risk management, incident prevention, detection and response can enable companies to minimize the risk to assets, protect the brand, and streamline IT security operations,” said Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst with ESG. “Bradford Networks can provide an essential piece of this puzzle, helping customers pinpoint compromised systems, and accelerate containment.”
“Currently, under-staffed and under-skilled security teams are forced to prioritize security incidents, analyze them through an array of disconnected security systems, and then respond to the most pressing events through a series of manual investigations and operations,” said Tom Murphy, CMO at Bradford Networks. “To address these deep-seated flaws in cyber security processes, ESG recommends a new level of integration between threat detection and rapid response technologies to create an end-to-end workflow for data exchange, shared analytics, and granular policy enforcement. Ultimately, this approach will help lower risk, improve incident response time and minimize the impact of cyber threats.”
About Enterprise Strategy Group
Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) is an integrated IT research, analysis, and strategy firm that is world-renowned for providing actionable insight and intelligence to the global IT community. Recognized for its unique blend of capabilities—including market research, hands-on technical product validation, and expert consulting methodologies such as the ESG Strategy Lifecycle—ESG is relied upon by IT professionals, technology vendors, investors, and the media to clarify the complex.
About Bradford Networks
Bradford Networks is the leading provider of rapid threat response solutions that minimize the risk and impact of cyber threats. The company’s patented Network Sentry solution enables Cyber Security Teams to continuously assess the risk of every user and endpoint on the network, and automatically remove vulnerable and compromised devices that act as backdoors for cyber criminals. Through its SmartEdge Platform, Network Sentry seamlessly integrates with the leading Advanced Threat Detection solutions to correlate high-fidelity security alerts with a threat’s foothold. This unique correlation bridges the silos of security, network, and endpoint information to enable confident, automated threat containment before it has an adverse impact on the business. Bradford Networks’ network security solutions are used by more than 900 enterprise customers worldwide in markets such as healthcare, financial services, retail, government, education and more. For more information, please visit www.bradfordnetworks.com.
[1] Source: ESG Research Report, 2014 IT Spending Intentions Survey, February 2014.