New alliance of security companies aims for a holistic approach to data breaches
One of the biggest problems organizations have in staying secure is a lack of visibility across the whole enterprise, giving hackers the opportunity to exploit gaps between security solutions.
Access control specialist SecureAuth is taking the lead in the creation of a Connected Security Alliance with the aim of building a reference architecture that will help organizations address every stage of the attack lifecycle from initial penetration, to lateral movement, to escalating privileges.
The alliance will initially be composed of SecureAuth and cybersecurity solution providers CyberArk, SailPoint and Exabeam. It's designed to better protect organizations and reduce the time it takes to detect bad actors by providing more than just a collection of aligned vendors, but a connected framework to deliver a holistic approach to breaches.
Key aims include an integrated framework where all solutions will pass rigorous interoperability testing. This will result in a reference architecture and documentation that can help customers implement solutions quickly and painlessly. By using multiple data sets to determine risk or evidence of an attack, alliance member solutions can increase the chance of detecting the early stages of a breach and thereby limit exposure to the enterprise.
Alliance members will also use identity-context to detect and protect against bad actors, as well as adding adaptive, risk-based authentication that works silently with minimal impact to the end user.
"We know our customers are managing multiple solutions and vendors. With increasingly sophisticated threats, we need to make it easier for security professionals protecting their environment -- not more challenging," says Mike Desai, senior VP of business and corporate development at SecureAuth. "Taking our customers’ needs into account, we developed the Connected Security Alliance to ensure organizations have the opportunity to select vendors they know can collaborate seamlessly".
You can find out more about the Connected Security Alliance on the SecureAuth website.
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