BT has launched BT Assure Cyber, a new security platform designed to offer monitoring, detection and protection against cyber threats targeted at private sector and government organizations.
BT Assure Cyber brings together event data and telemetry from a range of sources including business systems, traditional security controls and advanced detection tools. Vulnerabilities and incidents which would previously have taken days to investigate and respond to can now be identified and acted on immediately.
BT Assure Cyber uses a number of advanced analytics engines to detect subtle threats within the monitored environment. It then puts those threats into context within the vast array of events presented to cyber defence analysts and security professionals that would otherwise distract attention from priority incident analysis.
At the core of the Assure Cyber architecture is a “super correlation” engine that uses advanced mathematics to pick out anomalies from within human and machine orientated traffic. This complements traditional anomaly detection methods to gain a heightened situational awareness beyond that achievable with a single method of detection and analysis.
The platform uses a pro-active methodology informed by a unique risk modelling engine that puts complex and routine threats into context. It determines how serious a particular attack may be to an organization, taking into consideration the multiple layers of defence between an attacker and the vulnerable asset subject to attack.
The Assure Cyber capability empowers the security analysts by allowing them to focus their attention on the threats that pose the most significant risk to their organization.