The First Real Time Forensics Capability Dedicated to
Cyber Situational Awareness:
Situational awareness (SA) refers to the vantage point from which an organization gathers and processes information. Most recently, government agencies with cyber security responsibilities are being tasked with developing new SA techniques that can be applied to cyber security. This will require the ability to monitor an organization's networks on a global level, and quickly gather and process information in order to insure an intelligent and well-informed response to an attack.
Cybercrime – whether perpetrated by insiders, domestic attackers or foreign agents – has become huge in scope and continues to grow unabated, affecting not only the economy and public safety, but also national security interests. Cost per incident has run into hundreds of millions of dollars, and is expected to double by this year. Recent attacks affecting organizations from payment processor RBS WorldPay to Google, Adobe and dozens of other companies by Chinese hackers point to the critical need to provide automated, holistic Cyber SA capabilities that provide the context for making decisions about how to respond to attacks.
ACSI's Real Time Forensics and Federated Situational Awareness are new technologies that collect and secure forensics data in real time to preserve chain of custody and aid forensic investigation during or after an attack, and scale to provide accurate views of the extent of an attack across multiple domains within an agency or enterprise. This Federated Situational Awareness (FederatedSA™) provides the broadest context for making critical decisions in responding to an attack, and offers the only solution that utilizes actual forensics data rather than data based on an "educated guess."
The combination of these technologies provides the first scalable platform for Cyber Situational Awareness that supports multiple levels of awareness tailored for the specific agencies or departments involved, effectively safeguarding their digital assets.
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As hard to see as a black panther at night, today's cyber criminals are feared because they can prey undetected on a computer or network. Our CyberSA products can flush out such predators, giving the advantage back to you.
A cyber security breach at a U.S. government agency can literally place the nation’s national security at risk, especially in classified national security systems. Protection is needed against both external and “insider threats” on Microsoft platforms within government agencies. The U.S. Government has very specific and strong interest in protection against “insider threats.”
A revolutionary suite of products that not only protects against cyber-intruders, but detects, monitors and captures them, providing state-of-the-art technology enabling enhanced Cyber Situational Awareness.
Sept. 1, 2010 - Ryan Naraine
Malicious hackers are using the Google Code repository to host Trojans horses, backdoors and password stealing keyloggers, according to researchers at Zscaler.
The researchers found a malicious project hosted on the free Google Code site with about 50+ malware executables stored in the download section of the project.
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Aug. 19, 2010 - Lance Whitney
Intel plans to buy security company McAfee for $7.68 billion--the biggest acquisition in its 42-year history.The chipmaker said Thursday it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy all of McAfee's common stock at $48 per share in cash. McAfee's stock closed Wednesday at $29.93, making Intel's offer a 60 percent premium.
The boards of both companies have approved the deal.
Security has become an essential element of online computing, on par with energy-efficient performance and connectivity, Intel said. But today's security isn't adequately addressing the array of new Net-connected machines on the market, such as mobile devices, TVs, cars, ATMs, and medical gadgets, according to Intel. Offering protection requires a new approach that can tie together software, hardware, and services, the company said.
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Aug. 1, 2010
An elite US cyber team that has stealthily tracked Internet villains for more that a decade pulled back its cloak of secrecy to recruit hackers at a notorious DefCon gathering here Sunday.
Vigilant was described by its chief Chet Uber as a sort of cyber "A-Team" taking on terrorists, drug cartels, mobsters and other enemies on the Internet.
"We do things the government can't," Uber said. "This was never supposed to have been a public thing."
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July 15, 2010 - Ellen Nakashima
A group of nations -- including the United States, China and Russia -- have for the first time signaled a willingness to engage in reducing the threat of attacks on each others' computer networks.
Although the agreement, reached this week at the United Nations, is only recommendations, Robert K. Knake, a cyberwarfare expert with the Council on Foreign Relations, said it represents a "significant change in U.S posture" and is part of the Obama administration's strategy of diplomatic engagement.
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