Cybersecurity Roundup: School Attacks, Kaspersky, Juniper Networks, SafeBreach
… layers of security to extend the line of sight for security teams to better protect users, applications and infrastructure against advanced threats, according to the company.
Oliver Schuermann, Juniper’s senior director of enterprise product marketing, tells us the enhancements give partners a new opportunity with Juniper Connected Security.
“First, it gives them opportunity to address customers who have Juniper infrastructure and help them use Connected Security in their security strategy, taking advantage of features such as the SecIntel feeds on the MX Series routers and container security features with the cSRX,” he said. “Second, with our technology alliances, they can differentiate themselves by building true solutions and services around what they consider best of breed, rather than just selling boxes.”
The enhanced platform gives Juniper and its partners a competitive advantage because their products work together, Schuermann said.
“Point players have to rely on other vendors’ integration efforts, as well as protocol support to allow them to block at the port level,” he said. “This means integration, quality assurance and development efforts with many vendors. This is difficult, in particular when other vendors have competing products. Next, the larger players have solutions that sometimes work together, but often have to rip and replace their solutions in certain situations to achieve different feature sets. We work with our own technology, strive for investment protection, as well as work with other infrastructure and security vendors’ equipment. Our partners can offer unique value-added services to their customers by creating solutions with Juniper’s Connected Security.”
SafeBreach Releases New Platform Capabilities
SafeBreach has launched the latest version of its SafeBreach GRID platform, a breach and attack simulation application that uses correlative analytics to identify security gaps and link them to their potential business impact.
SafeBreach GRID provides the data required for mitigation by correlating data from many multistage simulations that run continuously to produce an impact score for each security gap found. Second, GRID ranks exploitable security gaps by potential business impact in a single recommendation matrix. This helps security teams prioritize which gaps to address, and provides recommendations on how to improve security product configurations to minimize the potential business impact of a breach.
GRID also includes a set of risk indicators to help teams track and report on their progress.
“The general idea – both for partners and for customers – is that GRID provides the ability to tackle the most relevant items first and also provides the data needed to remediate them,” said Yotam Ben Ezra, SafeBreach’s vice president of products. “This capability is unique for SafeBreach. For MSSPs, it means a more efficient service and better time to value for their customers. For customers, simply more efficient mitigation.”