HP unveiled new security offerings to help organizations embrace a “New School of Cyber Defense” by protecting the interactions between users, applications, and the boundless data exchanged to safely fuel growth and innovation. As information flows through data centers to the cloud and out to personal devices, the data must be secured at every step. The new HP Security products and services announced today address this approach to security incorporating user behavior analytics, data-centric cloud access protection, mobile application reputation analysis, contextual threat intelligence sharing, and incident response.
Organizations worldwide spent approximately $77 billion on cyber security in 2014,1 while successful breaches increased 25 percent.2 Adversaries continue to evolve while organizations increasingly adopt new ways of doing business—and the current approach to securing interactions between users, applications and data isn’t keeping up.
“The old school approach to cyber security focused on securing the perimeter, but the data powering business today goes beyond our four walls and must be protected from cyber threats regardless of where it resides,” said Jyoti Prakash, Country Director, India and SAARC countries, HP Enterprise Security Products. “In today’s environment, we must challenge ourselves to embrace the new school of thinking that goes beyond the infrastructure to protect what matters most – the interactions between users, applications and data that when protected, can fuel our businesses and accelerate growth.”
Tackling Insider Threats through Behavioral Analytics
HP announced a new offering that gives companies visibility into user behavior, delivering a simple, efficient way to detect malicious users within the enterprise. Partnering with security analytics company Securonix to deliver an interoperable security intelligence offering designed to help track and identify the “enemy within,” HP ArcSight User Behavior Analytics (UBA) leverages the behavioral data generated by enterprise users along with broader network event intelligence to detect even the most complex threats.
Extending Cloud Data-Centric Security
HP announced a new cloud access security platform designed to complement the existing HP Atalla cloud security portfolio, and expand its leadership in data-centric security. The new HP Cloud Access Security Protection platform provides ‘borderless’ protection of the data itself—at rest, in use or in motion—through a partnership with cloud access security broker Adallom to bring enhanced cloud security monitoring, governance and control capabilities to HP customers.
Going Beyond Threat Intelligence Sharing
Perhaps one of the best weapons in a company’s security defense arsenal is collaboration. Because information sharing is intrinsic to a comprehensive security strategy, HP Security has developed HP Threat Central, which is now generally available for all customers. Delivering automated and open sharing of information, HP Threat Central offers contextual analysis of information, prioritization of security data and identification of results that will allow organizations to take action. In addition to value-added intelligence, analysis of underground forums and threat actor profiling from HP Security Research, HP Security is also working to augment the HP Threat Central service with intelligence feeds from a network of companies, including AlienVault and Crowdstrike.
