SAN FRANCISCO and TEL AVIV, Israel, April
24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- GuardiCore, a leader in
internal data center and cloud security, today announced GuardiCore
Labs, a global cyber security research team that conducts in-depth
research and analysis, providing the security industry with
actionable insights into the latest and most advanced threats
facing data centers and clouds. GuardiCore Labs delivers
cutting-edge breach detection and response methodologies to help
GuardiCore customers continually enhance their security posture to
protect critical business applications and infrastructure.
GuardiCore advanced security technologies play an integral role
in GuardiCore Labs' research and analysis. One key resource is the
GuardiCore Global Sensor Network (GGSN), based on GuardiCore
deception technology that is installed in multiple data centers
around the world. The GGSN engages threat actors via
GuardiCore's high interaction deception technology and streams
early threat information to GuardiCore Labs expert analysts for new
attack identification and analysis. GuardiCore Labs' recent,
high-profile threat discoveries include a variant of the MongoDB
ransomware attack targeting MySQL databases and the Trojan.sysscan
malware, with extensive capabilities to search and extract cookies
and other credentials.
GuardiCore has appointed Ofri
Ziv, Vice President of Research, to head up GuardiCore Labs.
Ofri was previously the head of the GuardiCore Detection
Development Group. In his new role, Ofri will lead all research at
GuardiCore and will focus on enhancing GuardiCore's current and
future product and service offerings as well as developing new
tools for the broader security community.
One example of a new tool resulting from GuardiCore research
efforts is the GuardiCore Infection Monkey, an open-source
penetration testing tool available free to pen testers and other
security assessment pros to test their data center and cloud
systems for potential security risks. The Infection Monkey was
unveiled at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas in 2016 and was named one of the
"Eight Bad Ass Tools Coming out of Black Hat" by Dark
Reading.
"As organizations more aggressively adopt virtualization and
cloud-based infrastructures, they face new security challenges that
demand sophisticated security solutions," said Ofri Ziv, VP of Research at GuardiCore.
"GuardiCore Labs focuses its research efforts on emerging threats
targeting data centers and clouds, providing actionable
intelligence, advanced technologies and tools designed specifically
for these dynamic environments."
About GuardiCore
GuardiCore is an innovator in
internal data center and cloud security focused on delivering more
accurate and effective ways to stop advanced threats through
real-time breach detection and response. Developed by the top cyber
security experts in their field, GuardiCore is changing the way
organizations are fighting cyber attacks in their data centers. For
more information, visit www.guardicore.com.
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