Rafi Sabel, I'm the CEO and founder of CySight, and I've been working with customers of all shapes and sizes for many years in network monitoring and cybersecurity and visibility of networks really, some very large companies, some of the largest on the planet.
We've helped government customers and universities and campuses and financials to help them gain visibility.
In particular, we saw how the lack of visibility coupled, especially now with the sudden and exponential use of encryption within networks, presents an entirely new challenge to customers.
This is a time that we've hit a period where data in motion, 98% of data in motion is encrypted.
They're collecting minuscule amounts of data out of those networks.
We see companies unprepared to deal with these risks, thinking that they have the visibility that they need to manage risk, but they're in danger because a lot of issues and malware is really sneaking undercover at the moment.
Rafi Sabel: Well, CySight is unique in that it collects data out of the network and it scrutinizes all the interactions between the servers, between the clouds, the data centers, the users, the applications and evaluates all the risk of each of these different aspects, whether it's country risk or site risk, dark web risk.
We're using machine learning and baselining, and we have a level of retention within our solution that provides over 20 times more visibility than most tools combined.
We can provide a level of visibility of identifying what's going on below the surface of the traffic.
We're using AI to pull out the needles from the haystack to show what changes are occurring within the environment and the servers and the data at risk, whether it's reconnaissance that we're identifying or infiltration or exfiltration and data going across VPNs and Tor networks and BitTorrent and we're triaging that information together.
Rafi Sabel: Well, firstly, it all starts with data because if you don't have access to big data and a large learning environment for machine learning to take place, then you're going to miss a lot of the patterns that we can elicit out of the data.
Other tools in our space are collecting around 1 to 5% of the top of the data, whereas CySight at its base layer is collecting and absorbing and retaining and using a large amount of the metadata that is running through the network.
Rafi Sabel: Well, look, any customer that has data centers has data centers that assets that they want to protect, has difficulty with visibility in seeing what's going across their network, these are the kinds of customers.
You look at government organizations, there's leakages, there's healthcare, there's data leakages of social security services, smart cities.
The more we go into data and the more we go into giving our data to organizations, the chances of that data being made public becomes that much higher.
We're trying to really protect our customers, provide them a level of visibility that is unprecedented, help them to see both the real-time issues as well as the backtrackability of those issues because sometimes you only discovered things well after the fact.
Rafi Sabel: We've really pushed the boundaries and we're providing our customers a level of visibility.
As part of a defense-in-depth strategy, we're helping to bring out layers of visibility that aren't available in the marketplace besides CySight today.
A new tool is needed to provide the visibility of what's going on under the surface of encryption and the veil of encryption, because that's really, as we are dealing with advanced threats, malware that is now sneaking under the veil of encryption into networks and, literally, moving around.
They're dealing with only 1 to 2% visibility and it's a wonder or they wonder why they're being hacked because you can't control what you can't see.
This Cyber News was published on securityboulevard.com. Publication date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:13:05 +0000