Targeted attack campaigns grew by 91% and data breaches increased by 62% during 2013, according to Symantec’s 2014 Internet Security Threat Report. All the indications are that enterprises everywhere can expect the frequency, intensity and sophistication of such assaults only to increase in the years ahead.
As a result, demand from Symantec customers for advanced threat protection has soared, as this evolving threat matrix creates new challenges right across industry.
Our Unified Security strategy in delivering the top-end protection enterprises need not only addresses today's security challenges, but also accelerates our ability to innovate and evolve our protection, moving forward. How? Check out my previous blog for more details.
Intelligence at the Heart
We are building a massively scalable analytics platform that leverages cutting-edge techniques to mine our unified intelligence assets. As mentioned previously these are once-in-a-lifetime engineering challenges and we intend to lead the way! At the core of that strategy lays our Symantec Global Intelligence Network (GIN). GIN has global visibility into the threat landscape through big data accumulated from one of the largest collection of sensors in the industry with over 3.7 trillion rows on threat data in our platform gathering an additional 100,000 rows every hour, more than 100 million endpoints providing anonymous threat telemetry from around the world, and analysis of around a third of the world’s email on a daily basis.
Making Intelligence Actionable
GIN delivers this information to provide proactive protection to Symantec products and services, including our leading malware research, InSight, Managed Security Services, Incident Response, Web Gateway, Endpoint Protection and DeepSight Intelligence. Global threat and vulnerability intelligence enables organisations to enhance security and take proactive control of information.
New Advanced Threat Protection Services
To meet our customers’ escalating needs, Symantec has already released two new advanced threat protection services: Symantec Managed Adversary Threat Intelligence services & Symantec Incident Response services. Together, these new services combine proactive and reactive tools for companies to prevent and manage advanced attacks.
Symantec Managed Adversary Threat Intelligence
Many companies simply don’t have the security staff or other resources to obtain the competitive intelligence they need to defend digital files. The Symantec Managed Adversary Threat Intelligence (MATI) service provides this deep level of intelligence on attacks and threats specific to each industry, and insights into the key risks and vulnerabilities to digital assets. It offers customers proactive warnings and reactive context on threats, and information on campaigns, attack actors and trusted third parties. Initially, Symantec will offer the MATI service in three industries where Symantec has identified a vital need: manufacturing, IT and insurance, with scaled tiers and contract length for a ‘right for me’ solution for customers.
Symantec Incident Response Services
Symantec Incident Response enables customers to take immediate action against attacks with a ‘boots on the ground’ team response that delivers decades of experience in cyber incident response services, in both the public and private sectors, combined with the wealth of Symantec threat and malware Intelligence. Symantec Incident Response (IR) extends the customer’s team to help stop attacks and protect operations when it need it the most. The services provides highly skilled and well resourced incident responders who will enable customers to analyse, mitigate & contain an attack, limiting its impact and restoring business as usual activities in the shortest possible time. Customers will have immediate access to investigators who can not only have deep technical, depth of incident response skills & access to the latest malware intelligence and research, but also the ability to empower executives to make the right business decisions related to critical response actions.
And there is more to come. This is only the beginning of the new journey on which we have embarked on at Symantec, the next steps will see the release of new advanced threat protection solutions to help solve more of the critical cyber jobs our customers have. At the heart of our Unified Security strategy is better intelligence and with that, we will rise to meet the greater challenges in the face of unprecedented global cyber threats.