News summary:
* RSA today announced the availability of the RSA Silver Tail 4.0 Web threat detection solution.
* The first release since the acquisition of Silver Tail in October 2012, this latest iteration is engineered to leverage the power of big data to help security and fraud teams visualise and quickly analyse millions of user Web-session activities to identify fraud, security threats and business logic abuse in real time.
* The new intelligent user interface was designed to provide security and fraud teams with consumable information when and how they need it, allowing for much quicker identification of anomalous traffic patterns and behaviours.
* Building on its innovative heritage, RSA Silver Tail sets a new standard for Web threat detection tools by helping banking, e-commerce and government organisations separate regular customer Web sessions from potentially malicious criminal activity, significantly reducing costs associated with online fraud, security threats and other disruptions.
Full story:
RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), has introduced the next iteration of RSA Silver Tail Web threat detection solution designed to help organisations better visualise Web site activity in order to identify normal behaviour from that of the potentially malicious. With the ability to quickly separate the activities of friend from foe, security and fraud teams can investigate and mitigate Web session and mobile applications threats in real time.
Designed to ensure that organisations have the tools to identify more threats faster and investigate them much more efficiently, the RSA Silver Tail solution adds new one-click incident management capabilities and an intelligent user interface to help organisations gain better visibility into activities on their Web sites across millions of concurrent user Web sessions. Additionally, with Streaming Analytics and click-by-click threat scoring, RSA Silver Tail 4.0 technology is built to leverage the power of big data to identify threats, malicious traffic details and revealing behaviour trends that could not otherwise be detected by analysing the Web session logs alone. As a result, organisations may be able to experience a reduction in both direct and indirect costs associated with fraud, security and other disruptive uses of Web sites, including account takeover, password guessing, distributed denial-of-service, site scraping and business logic abuses, such as exploitation of shopping cart functionality or online rebates.
The new features of the RSA Silver Tail solution include:
* Streaming Analytics - RSA Silver Tail technology is designed to offer click-by-click threat scoring that supports more intelligent, risk-based behavioural threat discovery and results in faster detection and mitigation of Web threats. Streaming Analytics is engineered to employ proprietary in-memory analytics technology for real-time detection of the latest generation of complex attacks on Web sites.
* Incidents functionality - Designed to both allow for faster and easier threat detection and provide additional context to help teams understand the causes of threats for a more efficient investigation.
* Intelligent user interface - Built to adapt to the way security and fraud teams work. The new UI is designed to bring in big data visualisation capabilities that include highly interactive features to help simplify and prioritise threat detection and investigation. Prioritised lists of suspicious IPs, users, Web page and Web session data allows investigators to quickly identify and investigate threats.
RSA Silver Tail technology is a key component of the RSA anti-fraud and enterprise security portfolio. Using a big data-driven approach, the RSA Silver Tail solution is designed to gather and analyse massive amounts of real-time data to detect anomalies, IT security threats, fraud, business logic abuse and other malicious activity. By translating clickstream details into Web session intelligence, it is engineered to provide organisations with the visibility to help identify the crucial difference between customer activity and criminal activity happening on e-commerce Web sites, e-government portals and online banking Web sites.
Availability
The RSA Silver Tail 4.0 Web threat detection solution is now generally available.
Customer quote:
Robert Capps, Senior Manager of Trust and Safety, StubHub
"We're looking forward to the new user interface with great visualisations and one-click investigation capabilities. By understanding how people typically use our site, we identify trends that are out-of-pattern and suspicious. All of this helps us protect our fans and our business."
Analyst quote:
Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
"Web sites can be highly vulnerable to a wide range of complex attacks and disruptive activities, and all too often, investigators lack the insight and tools to identify and understand threats quickly in order to take correction actions and minimise potential damage. RSA Silver Tail highly-intelligent real-time big data analytics provide a deep level of visibility into each Web session so analysts can better identify, understand and mitigate threats in a timely manner."
Executive quote:
Stephan Le Roux, District Manager, RSA Southern Africa, The Security Division of EMC
"RSA Silver Tail 4.0 technology combines the intuitive visualisation of big data and the click-by-click real-time insight of streaming analytics, raising the bar for Web threat detection. The RSA Silver Tail solution can take a massive volume of Web session data and present it in a way that helps teams prioritise and facilitate incident investigations - leading to the identification and resolution of many more threats in much less time and with significantly less resources."
Featured resources:
* Speaking of Security Podcast: Spotlighting Web Session Threats and Abuse with RSA Silver Tail 4.0 - Podcast #248
* EMC Pulse Blog: Introducing RSA Silver Tail 4.0
Additional resources:
* Learn more about RSA Silver Tail 4.0
* RSA Speaking of Security Blog: Battling Business Logic Abuse
* RSA Speaking of Security Blog: The Changing Landscape of DDoS
* RSA Speaking of Security Blog: The Next Step in the Evolution of Big Data - Visualisation
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