Forcepoint has unveiled what it is calling the industry’s first cloud-native user activity and insider threat monitoring solution delivered as a service.
Forcepoint’s new software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, Dynamic User Protection, is the result of bringing user activity monitoring (UAM) and insider threat detection to the cloud.
With no policy configuration required, security teams can gain real-time visibility into risk behaviours that might indicate compromised or malicious users in hybrid cloud environments.
Forcepoint’s chief product officer Nico Popp says the next phase of cybersecurity requires risk management across the cloud, network, and endpoint.
The company explains that security is firstly a matter of visibility, which is something that can be appropriately managed on corporate networks, but it is a different story when people work from home. Remote working creates visibility blind spots into user activities and access to sensitive company information.
Furthermore, the majority of breaches involve human error and compromised user credentials. It is important to maintain visibility to protect the organisation from breaches, no matter where employees are.
“With Dynamic User Protection, Forcepoint is changing the rules of the cybersecurity game by delivering global enterprises the ability to automatically enforce security policy across all control points tailored to a specific end-user based on the risk they represent,” says Popp.
Dynamic User Protection delivers easy-to-deploy user activity monitoring and it also brings mainstream enterprise access to continuous risk assessment across security control points.
The solution also provides ‘risk scores’ to assist with risk assessment. These scores are based on indicators of behaviour, which feed into an analytics engine to determine the overall risk of an enti ..
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