Our “solution differentiators” series continues with another core element of our Reimagine CyberSecurity ethos — risk control. Risk control, in the simplest terms, is the ability to make all hacking stop — and in this blog, we discuss what risk control means and how our CyberSafety CC/B1 Platform™ makes it happen.
In the first of our five-part “solution differentiators” blog series, we stated our case for Reimagining CyberSecurity in a different way — one that gets us out of the high-level, abstract solutions and down to the steps we need to take to make “no more hacking” a reality. It comes down to three key elements: risk aware, risk control, and risk transfer.
Risk awareness is what it sounds like — being thoroughly aware of every corner of your network and the threats that are a part of that landscape. If you’re aware of risk, you can control it. If you control the risk, you stop it. Risk control in cybersecurity is possible — and we’ll walk through how it works.
What do we mean by “risk control”?
Before we dive into that question, let’s play a quick game of “What If?”
What if your cybersecurity technology could:
- Respond to every threat in microseconds?
- Reject unwanted packets with pinpoint accuracy?
- Reside everywhere on your network — including the cloud?
You’d sleep a little easier at night, right? That’s risk control — the ability of a cybersecurity platform to identify and cancel an incoming threat or attack in microseconds and in real time, at the header or handshake, before an attack can enter a network. And that’s what our CyberSafety CC/B1 Platform™ can deliver.
The CC/B1 is an Intelligent Threat Management™ platform that relies on patented AI/ML (automated intelligence/machine learning) X-NDR (extended network detection and response)/SOAR (security orchestration, automation and response) technology that collects threat data from all corners of an organization’s network (all devices, software and data — both at rest and in transit) that is streamlined into a clear, “decision” algorithm. If your network feels like a sprawling suburb, we’re the aerial intelligence — the real-time, mathematic-based risk awareness of the entire network topology.
Using machine learning to detect suspicious activity, CC/B1 acts as the Firewall Everywhere™. Most firewalls are only looking one way — at ingress traffic that’s coming into a network. CloudCover looks in multiple directions egress traffic going out as well as laterally in all directions. This makes it easier to not only constantly inspect and analyze traffic that’s coming in, but it also makes it possible to build, through machine learning, algorithms that analyze and learn from a network’s behavior.
The CC/B1 does all of this in near zero-second speed, with near zero-threat accuracy — creating a way for the network to monitor itself without the need for human engagement and intervention. This is the difference between threat stopping and threat hunting — being able to be proactive, not reactive.
The data network patterns collected from our algorithms are used in risk scoring, where we build actuarial models for the purpose of cybersecurity insurance. Everything we can see, we can control — and everything we can control, we can insure. We’re not just deep-packet inspecting, we’re deep-packet insuring. We’ll talk more about cybersecurity insurance and network risk transfer in our next blog.
Because the CC/B1 Platform is network security-agnostic and serves as an ironclad layer of protection on top of a company’s existing tech stack and cybersecurity management plan, it’s immediate risk control. CC/B1 deploys in minutes and start demonstrating its value within 72 hours. No other network security solution in the industry is able to provide proactive risk mitigation, threat stopping, and risk scoring all in near real-time.
How well does CC/B1 control risk?
We’ve put CC/B1 through approximately 50 penetration tests to ensure risk mitigation; the platform has successfully blocked all compromise attempts. Many of these attempts have been carried out by some of the most notable and capable ethical hackers in our industry, including:
- The U.S. Department of Defense/U.S. Air Force
- AFWERX Challenge
- The Center for National Security Initiatives (NSI) in Boulder, Colorado
- Rochester Institute of Technology Eaton Cybersecurity SAFE Lab
- Black Hat USA and DEF CON 2021 Conferences
- Hacker Challenges at Iowa State and Dakota State University
- Facebook’s Security Team
Our next blog will build upon our approach to risk control by discussing risk transfer — and how both work together as the basis for the next era of cyber-immutable cybersecurity insurance.
To take a closer look at our CyberSafety CC/B1 Platform and see how it can be a part of your proactive strategy for cybersecurity risk management, request a demo at cloudcover.cc/request-a-demo.
