August 14, 2020

Cybersecurity Done RIGHT

By Chandra Pandey, Founder & CEO, Seceon

The threat landscape has evolved over the years. Cyberattacks have become more sophisticated with ransomware, a denial-of-service attack (DDOS), inside threats, vulnerability exploits, advanced persistent threats (APTs), email phishing, etc. Because there is a wide variety of threats, there is no single solution that guarantees effective security across distributed networks.

These present heightened challenges to security professionals, who need to be more adept with their defense techniques in order to be on par with the cyber attackers.

Multi-layered security has typically been the go-to strategy in such circumstances. It is implemented using multiple silo solutions to prevent, detect, and respond to cyberthreats. However, the challenge with the multi-layered approach, with ‘bolt-on’ solutions, is not the amount of information but the ability to leverage the information to provide comprehensive visibility and faster correlation for detection and response.

“Seceon empowers enterprises and managed security service provider (MSSPs) through the coalescence of the company's dynamic threat models, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), with actionable contextual awareness, to proactively surface threats and breaches that matter, and automatically contain and eliminate them in real-time,” says Chandra Pandey, Founder, and CEO, Seceon.

Seceon: Comprehensive Cybersecurity for the Digital-Era

Companies, irrespective of size, are embracing digital transformation today. This new, increasingly connected, digital world is bringing tremendous efficiencies to businesses. However, along with these advantages, this era is also presenting frequent and aggressive cyber threats.

"Businesses need an effective and fast solution for identifying, containing, and eliminating all known and unknown threats in real-time so that they can focus on running their business without devoting excessive resources and time to cybersecurity management."

Chandra Pandey, Founder, and CEO, Seceon

Seceon’s award-winning aiSIEM™, aiMSSP™, and aiXDR™ solutions, built on the company's Open Threat Management (OTM) platform, can proactively detect and automatically eliminate threats in real-time.

The aiSIEM™ solution eliminates the need to add multiple silo solutions. It ingests raw streaming data Logs from all devices, operating systems (OSs), applications, and services in the ecosystem (on-premise, cloud), and Flows, such as NetFlow, IPFix, sFlow, jFlow from the network infrastructure. It also subscribes to identity management infrastructure, such as Microsoft® Windows® Active Directory™ service, lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP), domain name system (DNS), dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), Azure AD, etc.

aiMSSP™ enables MSSPs to offer outsourced security services that include security monitoring for 24x7, threat intelligence, proactive threat detection, elimination, and containment in real-time, at minimal and predictable costs.

aiXDR™ is the fully-automated, real-time cyber threat detection and remediation solution that integrates endpoint, network, and cloud data to detect & stop sophisticated attacks (bad actors and breaches) in their tracks

"Seceon aspires to provide the most effective and affordable cyber threat detection and elimination solutions so that any organization and managed service provider, regardless of size, can be protected from cyber risks," adds Chandra.

Why Seceon Is the Best at Detecting, Containing and Eliminating All Forms of Threats from Your Network

Seceon OTM Platform is the industry’s first fully-automated platform offering real-time, proactive threat detection, containment, and elimination for all threat categories. The platform can offer you security from vulnerabilities such as malware, ransomware, spyware, botnet, compromised credentials, insider threats, denial of services for applications and protocols, vulnerability exploits for web/emails/OS applications, data breaches and exfiltration, IT mistakes, IDS, network behaviors, vulnerability assessments, and IoT.

Seceon offers:

Comprehensive Visibility: The OTM Platform ingests all raw streaming data (Logs, Packets, Flows, Identities) and provides real-time extensive view of all assets (users, hosts, servers, applications, data access and movement, and traffic) that are on-premise, cloud or hybrid and their interactions.

Reduce Mean-Time-To-Identify (MTTI) with Proactive Threat Detection: The platform proactively detects threats and surfaces threats in real-time without an agent or alert fatigue. 

Reduce Mean-Time-To-Resolve (MTTR) with Automatic Threat Remediation: The OTM Platform performs automatic threat containment and elimination in real-time. It also provides clear actionable steps to eliminate the threats that can either be taken automatically by the system or manually by the security expert post-analysis. 

Continuous Compliance, Policy Management, and Risk Monitoring: The platform provides continuous compliance and scheduled or on-demand reporting for HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, NIST and many other similar regulations.

"Seceon has been on the cutting-edge of cybersecurity with its innovative platform and solutions and we strive hard each day to stay steps ahead of the competition providing significant value to our customers," adds Chandra.

How Seceon's aiSIEM Secures IoT Landscape

The Internet of Things (IoT) is undeniably transforming the way organizations and individuals communicate. IoT is driving the proliferation of connected devices which are meant to ease everybody’s life. However, most of these devices can be easily compromised, as they use a standard network or wireless protocols and typically do not support fully managed stack; thus are unprotected and exposed.

Seceon’s aiSIEM can help organizations secure their IoT landscape by offering the following features:

Visibility: Comprehensive visibility of all IoT interactions including all the hosts, applications, and protocols with context and situational awareness enrichment.

Agentless: Seceon aiSIEM is an agentless solution that fits nicely as most, if not all, of the IoT devices, cannot be programmed to run agents.

Behavioral Analytics: aiSIEM’s industry-leading anomaly detection algorithms along with strong dynamic correlations of these anomalies have proven to be the best in identifying IoT/IIoT threats with near-zero false positives.

Built-in IoT/IIoT Threat Models driven by ML and AI: Unlike other security offerings in the market, aiSIEM comes with pre-built threat models designed specifically to address IoT/IIoT attacks and threats.

Auto Threat Containment & Elimination: aiSIEM not only detects IoT threats more accurately in real-time but also contains them through its built-in auto-remediation capability.

Single Comprehensive Platform for both IoT and Enterprise Security needs: IoT/IIoT devices are not installed and managed in isolation in an enterprise environment. The aiSIEM offers a single comprehensive platform that seamlessly integrates both IT and IoT/IIoT infrastructure and correlates the information across both to offer better threat protection and improved operational efficiency.

Seceon Tackles Network Vulnerabilities in Real-Time with Caduceus

Caduceus, Inc. supports over 2,500 providers on the Athena Health service platform, as well as the GE IDX platform, with services ranging from data entry, coding, claim error dashboard workflows, un-postable routing, interface management, live operator patient call, scheduling center, and business intelligence analytics with population health reporting. As a key vendor in healthcare, Caduceus is trusted with sensitive information.

For Caduceus, deploying a traditional solution would have led to a potential data breach, high-cost outsourcing, overworked staff, reputational loss, and likely a loss of customers. The breadth of the network domain, the unique applications, and regular staff training exercises introduce challenges from a network perspective, opening windows of vulnerabilities if the right system is not protected.

“Some tools we reviewed were presented as turnkey but they failed to tell us that they need 15 people to turn the key. Seceon can handle the lion share of the work looking for breaches that happen within our system and has reduced our workload from a security standpoint by being able to assure that the patient data is secured,” says Richard Maier, Senior VP, Information System Operations, Caduceus Inc.

Seceon OTM solutions helped Caduceus to quickly react to any issue on the network and thus eliminate potential legal issues and/or breach costs to the organization. The AI algorithm helped it to identify alerts that are important. The platform also helped the healthcare vendor to understand the consistency of an environment and identify abnormalities in real-time.

"By empowering our customers to stay protected, we enable them to focus their efforts on what truly matters to them, namely, running a successful business in accordance with their own missions" add Chandra.

Conclusion

With the digital economy, data breaches will continue to rise. Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) will continue to be a soft target but large enterprises will not be spared either.

"As cyber risk continues to grow, and threats become more intelligent and capable, we look at the growth of a comprehensive platform approach eliminating the need for silo solutions, which leave gaps in the enterprise security posture. We will continue to be laser-focused on adding innovations to aiSIEM and aiMSSP,” concludes Chandra.