The notion of Zero Trust practice-as-a-policy — is a security model that inherently never trusts users or data. For a myriad of reasons, Zero Trust in the cybersecurity industry isn’t as cut and dried as the ultimate advance cyber risk model. It happens to be the flavor of the year “method of trust”. In our latest blog, we break down CloudCover’s Zero Trust methodology as an “embedded-security-network-risk-mitigation” solution and why our approach is today’s reinvention of cybersecurity within the “clouded” marketplace.
Important to note, the cloud service market is now the top attack target. It’s not a matter of if you’ll be attacked, but how often! You have to be fully readied, and know what and how to stop an attack before it takes hold and imposes it’s ransom. CloudCover Zero Trust (CC/B1) stops ransomware attacks before they can even begin to manifest.
In this blog, we’ll unpack how CloudCover CC/B1 Platform enables inline Zero Trust and what it means for the future of network level cybersecurity which is crucial for Zero Trust’s success.
CloudCover’s Zero Trust
Zero Trust as a practice is a security policy which never inherently trusts users or data. The CCB1 will always verify the safety of users and packets coming into the network using automation and machine learning. CCB1 has been utilizing a Zero Trust system, method and overall policy before the term was even coined.
Our patent process begins with analyzing and stopping threats to your network, it’s also using machine learning to regenerate algorithms — algorithms that are constantly maturing with every malicious transmission they encounter. These algorithms learn your risk and the data they uncover creates dynamic, real-time risk aware baselines for risk transfer. The CC/B1 technology enforces zero trust at the network level by verifying and validating each-every network packet connection regardless of origin or destination.
CC/B1 Zero Trust vs. future of cybersecurity
The patented CC/B1 platform operates by continuously monitoring the network and responding at the TLS handshake to prevent malware entry by bad actors. The platform is an AI-engineered threat stopping security platform that monitors all traffic and drops incoming requests and packets that it deems dangerous. The platform uses behavioral analysis to verify users and flag or stop any packet suspicious behavior. The platform does not accept any packets until they are verified ‘cyber safe’.
The platform scans all packets within microseconds of entering and exiting a network utilizing a patented automated method that determines and risk mitigates packet traffic in transit. In addition, insurance companies really have no idea how good a company is at protecting its network security or infrastructure. As a result, it’s tough for insurers to know the risks, which in turn makes it tough to be proactive in setting the right-priced premiums, or applying effective cyber insurance coverage that isn’t full of exclusions.
The CCB1platform is not only accurate by virtually eliminating false positives, but is very, very fast as it makes zero-trust decisions in micro-seconds. Moreover, the CC/B1 platform continuously monitors behavior to ensure that users are cyber safer, and that user’s data is not a victim of exfiltration, being misused or hijacked.
Our process of underwriting cyber risk is a transformational leap toward true cybersecurity — or as we prefer, CyberSafety Insurance — as it’s based on actual risk, not a “dartboard underwriting” guess. The AI/ML (automated intelligence/machine learning) — X-NDR (extended network detection and response) — SOAR technology (security, orchestration, automation, response) of the CC/B1 is providing your company its own unique risk (underwritten-enabled) score, including its very own actuarial table(s), and the continuous risk assessment and risk monitoring of your company’s network that ensures all responsible parties fully understand their threat landscape.
Cyber insurance and cyber security shouldn’t be two separate capabilities, or alternatives to one another — they should work fused in unison, together. And with our solution, they do.
CloudCover practiced Zero Trust from inception.
At its center, the CloudCover CC/B1 Platform follows the rule “never trust, always verify”. The CC/B1 is a practical, more effective Zero Trust platform — at the network level.
One last note. The cloud is now the top attack target. It’s not a matter of if you’ll be attacked, but how often! You have to be fully readied, and know what and how to stop an attack before it takes hold and imposes it’s ransom.
In our next blog, we’ll summarize further the CC/B1 Zero Trust model and the outlook for the cybersecurity markets and cybersecurity insurance industry going forward. Learn more about CC/B1 by requesting a demo: cloudcover.cc/request-a-demo.
