Bit9 Cyber-Terrorism Protection

Stop your organisation becoming a victim of cyber-terrorism with Advanced Threat Protection

Today there are advanced threats targeting users through email, website, instant messenger, USB devices and social engineering. The traditional blacklist antivirus solutions cannot keep pace with today's modern malware. Cybercriminals have become targeted, well-funded, stealthy and persistent, prompting organisations to seek a more proactive approach to endpoint security.

The government recently announced that a new generation of sophisticated cyber terrorists are one of the most serious threats to UK security.

"Advanced Persistent Threat" (APT) is a term used to refer to the long-term pattern of targeted sophisticated hacking attacks aimed at governments, companies and political activists. Malware, the foundation for a successful APT, is leveraged to retrieve confidential information, map infrastructure topologies, discover social relationships, map organisational structures, and maintain continuous control across compromised hosts. Unlike traditional malware that has a short life expectancy and tends to create bursts of network traffic, APTs attempt to stay stealth as long as possible slowly moving from one compromised host to the next without generating regular or predictable network traffic.

Definitions:

Advanced — Criminal operators behind the threat utilise the full spectrum of computer intrusion technologies and techniques. While individual components of the attack may not be classed as particularly "advanced" (e.g. malware components generated from commonly available DIY construction kits, or the use of easily procured exploit materials), their operators can typically access and develop more advanced tools as required. They combine multiple attack methodologies and tools in order to reach and compromise their target.

Persistent — Criminal operators give priority to a specific task, rather than opportunistically seeking immediate financial gain. This distinction implies that the attackers are guided by external entities. The attack is conducted through continuous monitoring and interaction in order to achieve the defined objectives. It does not mean a barrage of constant attacks and malware updates. In fact, a "low-and-slow" approach is usually more successful.

Threat — Means that there is a level of coordinated human involvement in the attack, rather than a mindless and automated piece of code. The criminal operators have a specific objective and are skilled, motivated, organized and well funded.

The Service We Provide

Many companies lack even basic application controls to ensure their desktops and data are protected.  In today's culture of compliance, you can no longer turn a blind eye to this problem. CIO’s and IT departments are under tremendous pressure to provide a business-friendly approach to assuring the integrity of the desktop environment without compromising user satisfaction and productivity.

Integral Specialist Services (ISS) provide a range of Data Protection Solutions to help organisations secure both their data and network environments. ISS helps to protect organisations against the new and emerging threats in IT security.  Bit9 defends against APTs by simply preventing the introduction of any unauthorised code to endpoints. Without the ability to deposit malware the criminals lack the visibility, persistence, and control they need to compromise their targets and achieve their objectives.

That's why Bit9, the pioneer and leader in Enterprise Application Whitelisting, developed Parity, the only policy-driven Whitelisting solution for managing the applications that can run on your Windows computers. Whether you need to lock down your desktops, block unauthorised and vulnerable applications, or generate audit trails of portable storage activity.  

With the use of the Bit9 software, ISS provide a solution that will give you the greatest degree of visibility and control over your computers.

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Our Experience

Integral Specialist Services are finding that many organisations are unaware of the evolving constant attacks that lead to such things as: loss of data and data breaches, loss of network and provision of service (and therefore productivity) and of course the loss of revenue or financial damages where regulatory compliance has been enforced. In addition to this, brand reputation can often be affected.

5 Steps to Advanced Threat Protection Management

There are 5 steps organisations can take to prevent targeted attacks and ensure you mitigate the risk of future threats. Protect the resources targeted by advanced threats with:

1. Continuous Monitoring - detect and monitor all software in real-time on all systems
2. Analyse – aggregate the health of all files, registry devices, memory and software applications 
3. Filter – identify trusted software and detect malware
4. Block – find and ban known malware and unapproved applications 
5. Whitelist Applications - only allow execution of trusted software, preventing targeted attacks.

Benefits

With the combination of ISS’s data protection and security team and the deployment of Bit9 we are able to provide a solution which delivers the following:

Bit9 Delivers Advanced Threat Protection – most effective defence against stealth and targeted attacks, viruses, Trojans, zero-day attacks, and more.
Bit9 Detects Targeted Malware – real time cyber forensics highlights compromised computers.  See further details
Bit9 Prevents Targeted Malware attacks – never get malware again with Application White listing.
Bit9 Makes desktop staff more productive and lower desktop management costs by eliminating problems at source.
Bit9 Protects your business from interruption.

Case Studies

Download the PDF to see how Marks & Spencer protects customers and retail operations with Bit9

See how a United States Government department relies on the power of Bit9

Awards & Recognitions

Named InfoWorld's Technology of the Year for 2010, Bit9 Parity Suite leverages the industry's leading Application White listing solution and the Bit9 Global Software Registry - the world's  largest database of software intelligence — to identify and classify software, delivering the highest levels of endpoint security, compliance, and manageability and most complete authority on software.

InfoWorld awards Bit9 Parity Suite 5.0 with the 2010 Technology of the Year.

InfoWorld names Bit9 Parity Suite 5.0 Best Application Whitelisting solution in the industry.

Government Security News 2010 Homeland Security Awards competition winner 2010.  See more details.

Costs

The cost model is simple and is based on the size of your organisation.  For more information, please contact our data protection and security expert matt@integralservices.info or call us on 0845 273 3881.

Our Guarantee

By implementing the Bit9 solution we guarantee to help you eliminate the constant threat of malware attacks and therefore help your organisation to become more secure.

Our Full Range of Services

Most of our clients are initially attracted by one of our services but most go on to use many of our other services.  Our focus is on saving clients budget in a wide range of areas, while improving operational efficiency.   Please do look at our services introduction page to see other areas in which we can help you.