By Joab Jackson
Hewlett-Packard has devised two new ways of securing enterprise systems in the endless war on malicious network attackers.
One service inspects the Internet addresses being requested by employees for malicious links and the other service learns how an organization's coders write their programs.
The two new releases aim to "protect the interactions among your most valuable assets: your users, your applications and your data," said Frank Mong, HP vice president of solutions. The company announced the new software at the HP Protect security conference, held this week near Washington.
HP DNS Malware Analytics (DMA) monitors outbound DNS (Domain Name System) requests to ensure employee browsers aren't contacting rogue or malware Web sites. A DNS server provides specific numeric Internet addresses to end-user computers requesting Web sites by their domain names.
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By Sean Michael Kerner | Posted 2015-09-02
At HP Protect 2015, the company announced DNS Malware and Fortify Scan Analytics offerings, which are designed to add new intelligence to security data.
There is no shortage of data sources to help organizations identify potential security risks, but making sense of all the data can be a challenge. To that end, Hewlett-Packard announced new analytics services at the HP Protect 2015 conference to help organizations improve security.
The overall theme of HP's Protect news is about adding more value to analytics and making it easier to consume, said Mike Armistead, vice president and general manager of HP Enterprise Security Products, ArcSight.
"Analytics is a broad term that can mean anything from a fast search of unstructured data to a deep forensic analysis," Armistead told eWEEK. "So we had a decision to build a general-purpose platform or build analytics into specific products that add value."
HP decided to build focused products for analytics, including the new DNS Malware Analytics (DMA) platform. DMA is a two-part product, Armistead explained. One part taps into an organization's on-premises DNS event stream with an appliance, which looks to detect malware from that data. The second part is the cloud component, where the on-premises device sends the data for additional analysis and reporting. Domain Name System (DNS) is an essential Internet component that links domain names to IP addresses.
The release timing of HP's DMA product is interesting, given that Cisco recently closed its acquisition of DNS security vendor OpenDNS. Armistead said that the timing is purely coincidental and that HP has been working on DMA for several years. full article
At HP Protect 2015, the company announced DNS Malware and Fortify Scan Analytics offerings, which are designed to add new intelligence to security data.
There is no shortage of data sources to help organizations identify potential security risks, but making sense of all the data can be a challenge. To that end, Hewlett-Packard announced new analytics services at the HP Protect 2015 conference to help organizations improve security.
The overall theme of HP's Protect news is about adding more value to analytics and making it easier to consume, said Mike Armistead, vice president and general manager of HP Enterprise Security Products, ArcSight.
"Analytics is a broad term that can mean anything from a fast search of unstructured data to a deep forensic analysis," Armistead told eWEEK. "So we had a decision to build a general-purpose platform or build analytics into specific products that add value."
HP decided to build focused products for analytics, including the new DNS Malware Analytics (DMA) platform. DMA is a two-part product, Armistead explained. One part taps into an organization's on-premises DNS event stream with an appliance, which looks to detect malware from that data. The second part is the cloud component, where the on-premises device sends the data for additional analysis and reporting. Domain Name System (DNS) is an essential Internet component that links domain names to IP addresses.
The release timing of HP's DMA product is interesting, given that Cisco recently closed its acquisition of DNS security vendor OpenDNS. Armistead said that the timing is purely coincidental and that HP has been working on DMA for several years. full article
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