CyberArk Introduces Privileged Threat Analytics To Detect In-Progress Attacks

CyberArk, the company securing the heart of the enterprise, has announced the availability of Privileged Threat Analytics, the analytics solution to detect malicious privileged account behaviour and disrupt in-progress attacks before damage is done to a business.

Privileged accounts have been identified as the primary target in internal and advanced external attacks. According to security consultancy firm Mandiant, “APT intruders prefer to leverage privileged accounts where possible, such as domain administrators, service accounts with domain privileges, local administrator accounts, and privileged user accounts.” CyberArk Privileged Threat Analytics provides targeted and immediately actionable threat analytics on these critical attack vectors by identifying previously undetectable malicious privileged user behaviour, which enables the incident response team to respond and disrupt in-progress attacks.

As the secure perimeter has dissolved, the new battleground for information security is inside the network. CyberArk Privileged Threat Analytics is the latest innovation in CyberArk’s market leading privileged account security solution that secures an organisation’s most critical assets and data. By applying patented analytic technology to a rich set of privileged account behaviour data from its privileged account security solution, along with contextual information from system resources, CyberArk Privileged Threat Analytics provides targeted, high value and actionable intelligence to security teams.

“Organisations must assume attackers have already penetrated the perimeter and once inside, will almost always attempt to take control of privileged accounts to advance their attack,” said Roy Adar, vice president of product management, CyberArk. “Customers are asking for controls on privileged accounts, coupled with the ability to detect suspicious activity to protect their organisations from evolving threats.”