LAS VEGAS – BLACK HAT USA – Security and data protection solutions provider Websense, today launched new CyberSecurity Intelligence™ (CSI) services that give IT security teams access to an online sandbox environment, along with education and research services from the company’s Security Labs team, to help protect organizations from cyber attacks and data loss.
The company said that its CSI services customers will have access to the online sandbox environment they call ThreatScope in order to safely test files suspected to be malware. In order to test a suspicious file, users upload the file in question to ThreatScope, which applies “Websense Advanced Classification Engine analytics”, activates the file within a sandbox, and reports on its behavior. Insights include the infection process; post-infection activities (such as calling home); system-level events and processes; registry changes and file modifications.
The two new services include
• CSI: On-Demand – An online, on-demand sandbox and training environment that provides access to a wide variety of resources to maintain in-house security expertise. Tools include ThreatScope and online research and forensic investigation training, techniques and tools.
• CSI: Live – Includes all online services of CSI: On-Demand, plus the ability to work directly with Websense Security Labs researchers on three key areas. First, users have access to a three-day hands-on training on advanced security research methodologies and techniques. Second, Websense researchers provide planning assistance, which includes proactive testing of current security postures and full reviews of product deployment, configuration and policies. And finally, confidential forensic incident investigations to determine what happened and future prevention.
“We spend 24-hours a day, seven days a week investigating and analyzing the latest cyber-attack trends and malware tactics,” said Charles Renert, vice president of the Websense Security Labs. “These new services expand our customers’ in-house resources and provide them the opportunity to put a Websense Security Labs researcher on their team when they need the expertise the most—when they’re under attack.”
“Businesses are struggling to protect themselves from unknown, targeted and adaptive security threats because they are more resistant to signature-based security tools,” said Christine Liebert, senior analyst for industry analyst firm IDC’s Security Services. “The new Websense CSI services provide sandboxing services, forensic details and rich security expertise that are required to help in-house IT security teams combat the latest threats and prevent data loss.”
More information on the new services is available here.
