In today’s world, enterprises must protect themselves against constantly-evolving cyber threats. These threats have the potential to cause serious damage, not just to the enterprise’s reputation, but also to its finances. To combat these threats, enterprises need a data protection solution that can detect them early and mitigate their effects.
Recent studies have shown that data breaches are on the rise, and businesses of all sizes are at risk. However, with the right tools in place, you can minimize your chances of becoming a victim.
Commvault is extending its data security platform to offer a new service that helps businesses identify threats before they become serious problems by using decoys. Decoys are a powerful tool for protecting your organization’s data. That’s why the latest offering: Metallic ThreatWise brings innovative technology that enables early threat detection, allowing you the peace-of-mind knowing a potential crisis has been avoided before it becomes an issue! With this in place, you can rest assured knowing your valuable information will be protected.
By definition, a decoy is “a person or thing used to lure an enemy into a trap.” In the context of cyber security, decoys are fake resources that are used to bait bad actors into engaging with them. And by doing so, decoys can provide up-to-date information on what’s happening inside your organization and help you take steps to prevent potential issues.
How Metallic ThreatWise Works:
Metallic ThreatWise uses machine learning to detect cyber threats in real-time. It does this by constantly monitoring activity on the network for suspicious behaviour, when an anomaly is detected, Metallic ThreatWise will take action to prevent any data loss from occurring.
Commvault Enables Early Threat Detection and Zero Loss Strategy with Metallic ThreatWise with a focus on end-to-end data visibility, the broadest workload protection and faster response times (thanks to its foundation in trustless principles ), The Zero Loss Strategy aims help organizations identify potential threats early before they cause serious damage via ransomware attacks. By using decoys and fake resources, CommVault baits attackers into engagement while it spots issues in production environments. This gives customers up-to-date information on what’s happening inside their organization, so they can take steps to prevent problems before they occur.
This is achieved through a combination of features, including:
- A real-time dashboard that shows all suspicious activity on the network
- The ability to automatically block IP addresses that are associated with known malicious activity
- The ability to quarantine files that are infected with malware
- The ability to generate alerts when suspicious activity is detected
Let’s have a quick look at the system:
You can easily deploy the Decoy-like appliances as shown below
You can very quickly create an Indistinguishable decoy by selecting from pre-defined options example of setting up a Windows Server is shown here.
You will have an option to deploy threat sensors, in bulk, Mimic high-value resources, for example, file servers, databases, VMs, etc.
Expose sensors to bad actors only, invisible to legitimate users and systems. You can mimic the traffic by selecting the specific traffic you want to generate through the services
This will trick the attacker to target the decoy systems and notify the users of an active attack.
Some of the features are given below:
- Accurate Alers from the dashboard.
- Provide key stakeholders with immediate insight into active and latent threats.
- Gain critical intelligence into activities and tactics
- Eliminate false positives and alert fatigue
- Integrate alerts with top security solutions like Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) or Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) etc
Conclusion:
In today’s world, cyberattacks are a serious threat to businesses of all sizes. To combat these threats, businesses need a data protection solution that can detect them early and mitigate their effects. That’s where Metallic ThreatWise comes in. By constantly monitoring activity on the network and taking action to prevent data loss, Metallic ThreatWise enables businesses to avoid costly downtime and damage to reputation that can occur in the aftermath of a successful attack.
With Metallic ThreatWise, enterprises can:
- Benefit from early detection of threats and a zero loss strategy in the event of a successful attack
- Avoid the costly downtime and damage to reputation that can occur in the aftermath of a successful attack
- Gain complete visibility into what happened and how the threat was addressed
For more information on getting started with a free trial or a free demo you can request here Metallic ThreatWise Cyber Deception
References:
Introducing New Data Security Capabilities l Commvault Blog
Modern Cyber Deception: Introducing Metallic® ThreatWise™
Commvault Enables Threat Detection with Metallic® ThreatWise™