Automated attack patterns and correlated security events accelerate incident response process to better protect critical IT assets
October 13, 2015 – Montreal, Canada – Above Security, a Canadian-based global IT security service provider, announces the publication of a scientific research paper on a new data mining system that will considerably enhance the company’s managed security service (MSS) offering. The findings outlined in the paper “Mining known attack patterns from security-related events”, authored by Nicandro Scarabeo, Research Engineer at Above Security, in collaboration with Benjamin C.M. Fung and Rashid H. Khokhar and published on Wednesday October 7, 2015 in PeerJ, will provide customers with faster and more contextual incident response mechanisms to better protect their critical information assets.
With cybercrime and regulatory requirements on the rise, more and more organizations need to implement a comprehensive information security program to better protect their confidential data and properly handle security incidents when they occur. Managed security services have become an essential tool for organizations to protect their infrastructure from hacking attempts such as unauthorized behavior, distributed denial of service (DDoS), malware propagation and anomalies.
Unfortunately, information security analysts are often overwhelmed with large amounts of security data and cannot manage to analyze and interpret this data in an efficient and accurate manner. Above Security’s research on dynamic data mining techniques aims to facilitate the data analysis process. By automatically deriving patterns and trends from previously unstructured data, critical and relevant alerts in a customer’s network infrastructure are prioritized and can be leveraged for future analysis and recommendations. The end result is a managed security service that provides customers with faster, more accurate and more contextual incident response as well as improved reporting features.
“The rapid changes in the cyber security landscape call for an innovative and scientific approach to data protection and incident response that is based on real-life security monitoring cases,” said Mario Venditti, Above Security’s chief operating officer. “By including new data mining techniques and automated attack patterns in our intelligent risk management platform ArkAngel, we will further enhance our service quality and provide to our customers quicker and more relevant information on the most critical alerts in their infrastructure. Above Security has always placed tremendous emphasis on research and innovation, and our collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has allowed us to further advance research in this field.”
For more information, please visit www.abovesecurity.com or contact: Katharina Gerberding, M.A., International Communications and Marketing Coordinator, Above Security, +1 (450) 434-8062, katharina.gerberding@abovesecurity.com