Alert Logic Harnesses Machine Learning to Fight Web Application Attacks
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New Data Science, Human Security Expertise and Analytics Technologies Protect
Businesses Against Dominant Source of Breaches Affecting Cloud Applications
HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwired - May 04, 2017) - Alert Logic, the leading provider
of Security-as-a-Service solutions for the cloud, today announced key
enhancements to the Alert Logic Cloud Defender solution that enable businesses
to better defend against web application attacks, the most significant source of
breaches for organizations leveraging cloud and hybrid computing
infrastructures. Enhanced capabilities to Cloud Defender include supervised
machine learning and expanded anomaly detection capabilities that give
businesses an unparalleled ability to stop complex, multi-stage web application
attacks and further differentiates Alert Logic's already unique ability to help
businesses protect their cloud computing workloads.
"Data breaches resulting from web application attacks have increased
significantly in the last three years and a multi-layer web application attack
defense should be the cornerstone of any effective cloud security solution,"
said Gray Hall, CEO of Alert Logic. "Machine learning delivered as part of a
managed service that analyzes petabytes of security data from our more than
4,000 customers enables unrivaled detection of complex, hard to identify attacks
on web applications."
One of the many advantages of cloud computing is the ability for businesses to
more quickly develop and deploy revenue-generating web applications. Web
applications, however, are rich targets for cybercriminals because of inherent
vulnerabilities in ubiquitous third-party web application components and
insecure coding practices.
"Most of the security incidents we identify with machine learning techniques
include multiple attack stages that take advantage of flaws within a web
application's layers, and patience by the attacker," said Misha Govshteyn, co-
founder and SVP of Products for Alert Logic. "We are now able to reliably
identify highly persistent attack campaigns lasting several weeks or months."
Machine Learning, Human Expertise and Petabytes of Security Data
Alert Logic combines the required elements of data scientists, threat
researchers and Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts who use event
telemetry -- standardized network, log and application security data -- from
Alert Logic's more than 4,000 customers to quickly and continually train
algorithms which learn by example. In a technique known as supervised machine
learning, this "human-in-the-loop" approach is now delivered as part of a fully-
managed service enabling Alert Logic to achieve an unprecedented accuracy rate
in detecting advanced, multi-stage SQL Injection attacks. SQL Injection attacks
are one of the most prevalent attack vectors in the OWASP Top 10 and the first
in a series of planned web application attack types to be identified through
Alert Logic's machine learning techniques.
Enhanced Anomaly Detection with Expanded Application Coverage
Additionally, Cloud Defender is now able to detect a wider range of web
application attacks using out-of-band anomaly detection techniques specifically
developed for web application transactions, in addition to signature-based
detection already available. This further improves detection accuracy, and
lowers false positives for attacks on unique flaws in custom web applications,
without interfering with legitimate application access. Alert Logic has also
expanded analytics capabilities of its ActiveWatch Services to detect attacks
against more than 150 recently announced vulnerabilities at all layers of the
web application and cloud infrastructure stack. This further strengthens Alert
Logic's event-driven visibility into exploits against vulnerabilities in web
applications built using WordPress, Magento, PHP, Apache, ASP.Net, MongoDB and
Hadoop. The benefit of combining application anomalies with signature detection
includes a better signal-to-noise ratio and more actionable context in
protecting against layer 7 attacks.
To learn more about Alert Logic's web application attack defense capabilities,
visit here.
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About Alert Logic
Alert Logic, the leader in security and compliance solutions for the cloud,
provides Security-as-a-Service for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid
infrastructures, delivering deep security insight and continuous protection for
customers at a lower cost than traditional security solutions. Fully managed by
a team of experts, the Alert Logic Security-as-a-Service solution provides
network, system and web application protection immediately, wherever your IT
infrastructure resides. Alert Logic partners with the leading cloud platforms
and hosting providers to protect over 4,000 organizations worldwide. Built for
cloud scale, the Alert Logic patented platform stores petabytes of data,
analyses over 400 million events and identifies over 50,000 security incidents
each month, which are managed by its 24x7 Security Operations Centers. Alert
Logic, founded in 2002, is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices in
Austin, Seattle, Dallas, Cardiff, Belfast and London. For more information,
please visit www.alertlogic.com.
For Alert Logic Inquiries:
Dex Polizzi
Public Relations
W2 Communications
703-877-8106
dex(at)w2comm.com
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Datum: 04.05.2017 - 15:00 Uhr
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