New advanced threat-protection solution empowers business

California-based business-assurance technology company Blue Coat Systems Inc. recently unveiled in Manila its new Blue Coat Advanced Threat Protection solution, which is purpose-built to bridge the gap in security organizations between day-to-day operations, incident containment and resolution.

The new solution is the first to deliver a comprehensive Advanced Threat Protection life cycle defense that fortifies the network by blocking known threats, proactively detecting unknown and already-present malware, and automating best practices for incident containment post-intrusion. This makes it possible for day-to-day security operations and advanced security teams to work together to protect and empower business.

Today’s enterprises are experiencing material security breaches because of an organizational gap between day-to-day security operations and advanced security operations teams. According to the Verizon Data Breach Report, 84 percent of advanced targeted attacks took seconds, minutes or hours to compromise targets, while 78 percent of breaches took weeks, months or years to discover.

This gap exists because traditional security defenses are designed to detect and block known threats, but remain largely blind to today’s zero-day threats and novel malware. This is worsened by the tendency for advanced security operations teams, as well as the defenses they employ, to operate in silos with no ability to share information across the entire security organization or environment.

The Blue Coat Advanced Threat Protection solution automates and aligns best practices and technologies with business processes and policy, so that the entire security organization can rapidly detect, contain and resolve advanced threats in a repeatable and consistent way.

The solution seamlessly combines local and global threat intelligence to turn unknown threats into known ones at each stage in the incident life cycle, thereby increasing the overall effectiveness of the security infrastructure.

“As empowered businesses rapidly adopt new technologies across all functions, it has become increasingly important that security teams understand threats will get through their preventive defenses. They must align to address advanced threats with a life cycle defense,” said Matthias Yeo, Blue Coat System’s chief technology officer for the Asia-Pacific.

“The Blue Coat Advanced Threat Protection solution aligns security teams on the right strategy, the right process and the right actions before, during and after any security problem. This empowers our customers to continue to adopt new technology while assuring the security of their business,” he added.

“Protecting our customers’ information is a top priority for us,” said Matthew Travis, information-technology security analyst at Wawa Inc. “Blue Coat Advanced Threat Protection will enable our security team to work as a single force to detect, block, and remediate security threats.”

For more information, visit www.bluecoat.com or dc.bluecoat.com/ATPResourceCenter.