In the first of a five-part blog series, we’ll introduce you to CloudCover’s solution differentiators — starting with our beliefs around the future of cybersecurity and why our AI/ML (automated intelligence/machine learning) X/NDR (extended network detection response) SOAR (security orchestration, automation and response) technology is miles away from our competition.
As we close out National Cybersecurity Awareness Month — a time when cybersecurity professionals around the world are taking stock of their cybersecurity strategies and working to intentionally inform their organizations about proactive cybersecurity hygiene and measures — we suggest that what’s really needed is for companies to truly Reimagine CyberSecurity.
To that end, we want to introduce you to CloudCover’s “solution differentiators” — a look into how we’re thinking and doing things differently than others in our industry.
In this first of a five-part series, we’ll introduce you to:
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- Our ethos around what we believe is the new era of cybersecurity, and
- How we’ve designed our technology to complement this new era.
Our cybersecurity ethos: why the future is risk aware, risk control, and risk transfer
Remember the days when the internet was safe? If you can’t, that’s because the last time internet safety existed was approximately 30 years ago — at its inception.
We believe it can be safe again. However, to ensure we can realize the internet as it was initially conceived, we need to recognize we’re in a new era of cybersecurity. Here are the three core elements we believe this new era entails:
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- Risk Awareness: Organizations need to have a real-time, analytical understanding of the fluid risks their network is facing. Risk is not static, it ebbs and flows, and getting to know this movement is essential for building actuarial models that can update dynamically on a cybersecurity platform.
- Risk Control: A cybersecurity platform needs to be able to identify and nullify an attack in microseconds and in real time, at the header or handshake, before an attack can enter the network.
- Risk Transfer: After the risk gets controlled, it should be shifted from a company to a cybersecurity insurance provider through a contract — just like an insurance policy specifies a risk of loss that’s passed from the policyholder to the insurer. A company’s data at risk is underwritten at its dynamic real value at the packet level, and a forensic record of the insurance “policy” is created utilizing blockchain.
We’ll go into more detail on each of these three components in future blogs, so stay tuned.
Our technology: using machine learning, not people, to stop threats
Our CyberSafety CC/B1 Platform™ is a joining of these three components — a solution for cyber insecurity rather than cybersecurity. It’s a marriage of automated technology combined with cybersecurity insurance to holistically protect your network, your devices, and your data.
In most cybersecurity strategies, there’s still a major dependence on “human tuning.” This is a vulnerability — highly skilled cybersecurity experts are already in short supply, which means that security operation centers (SOCs) don’t have time to concentrate on stopping threats — they can only hunt them.
Any strategy that requires human interaction or manual intervention is not the way forward. Take a look at this “Evolution of Cybersecurity” chart. “Proactive” — having the structure in place to address issues as they arise — is middle of the road. Being proactive still depends on human interaction — and this is where 50% of cybersecurity companies are today.
CloudCover is at stage #6 on the chart — that little dot to the far right. Our CC/B1 Platform is an AI/ML, X/NDR, SOAR platform that uses machine learning to detect and mitigate attacks, repel them by inspecting the packet for malicious payload at the handshake before it’s allowed to pass into your network, and record the information from those threats so the platform’s algorithms and mathematics mature every time they encounter suspicious network activity. We’re also network-centric — we protect the network and its security issues as well as the data in transit.
In the second part of this series, we’ll zero in on risk awareness and how the CC/B1 Platform is able to orchestrate risk into a single view — mitigating attacks at zero-second speed with zero-threat accuracy.
Can’t wait for the next blog in this series? Head here to see why the CC/B1 Platform is the right cyber-safer step for your organization: cloudcover.cc/cybersafety-platform/.
