London, UK: Varonis Systems, Inc. has announced the beta availability of more than 20 new threat models and enhanced discovery capabilities from its behaviour research laboratory, allowing organisations to analyse and detect attacks, insider threats, breaches and new variants of ransomware before damage can be inflicted.
Version 6.2.36 of the Varonis Metadata Framework platform includes new behaviour-based threat models in another step to protect against the latest threats. To keep customers ahead of the latest security developments, threat models are continuously developed by the Varonis behaviour research laboratory for DatAlert Analytics. New additions include sets of threat models based on executive account discovery, advanced ransomware behavior, abnormal lockout events, mass delete trends, and accumulative analysis on idle and sensitive data.
The latest release also includes a new DatAlert user interface (UI) designed to better understand threats at a glance, with intuitive design to show a clear state of the system – where there is vulnerability, what to investigate and detailed analysis of alerts and activity. This enables an IT administrator or security expert to more quickly triage and analyse alerts and take actions to resolve incidents.
Doug Cahill, Senior Analyst covering cybersecurity at Enterprise Strategy Group, said, "Strains of ransomware like CryptoLocker are crippling organisations, particularly in the healthcare industry. More and more organisations across industries are finding that traditional approaches are failing to keep pace with the rapidly evolving threat landscape, putting their intellectual property and assets at risk. Varonis’ dedicated behaviour research laboratory is helping Varonis customers spot and stop the latest strains of active threats before it’s too late.”
David Gibson, Vice President of Strategy and Market Development at Varonis, said, “Customers are finding success with Varonis predictive threat models, which analyse behaviour and detect threats throughout the lifecycle of a breach. Varonis helps spot signs of threats from ransomware activity to unusual employee activity and has stopped numerous breaches. With the behaviour research lab, we are staying on top of the latest forms of cyberattacks so that our DatAlert customers can see and stop insider threats before they suffer a catastrophic breach or a blackmailer demands payment for their own data.”