{"id":663,"date":"2017-05-25T11:45:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T15:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/?p=663"},"modified":"2017-05-25T11:45:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T15:45:25","slug":"cylance-optics-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/cylance-optics-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Cylance Enters the EDR Market with New AI-Driven Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Cylance Inc. has announced the general availability of CylanceOPTICS, a new AI-driven endpoint detection and response (EDR) product that augments the prevention capabilities of the company’s endpoint protection product, CylancePROTECT.<\/p>\n

Delivered on the Cylance AI Platform, CylanceOPTICS is intended to simplify key aspects of threat hunting and attack analysis, even without cloud connectivity. The Cylance AI Platform serves as a data-science engine that generates specialized machine-learning models to address today\u2019s incident response and investigative needs.<\/p>\n

When combined with CylancePROTECT, OPTICS \u00a0is able to provide more effective, simplified and high-performance endpoint security approach that helps organizations protect sensitive data, reduce risk of widespread compromises and improve their overall security posture, according to the company.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe integrated solution of CylancePROTECT and CylanceOPTICS leverages AI to change the operating model of endpoint security. With CylancePROTECT preventing virtually all threats from executing on the endpoint, security teams can now focus their efforts on finding advanced threats that cannot be prevented pre-execution,\u201d said Stuart McClure, co-founder and CEO at Cylance. \u201cOur focus continues to be on AI-based threat prevention, but now we are enabling easy threat hunting, attack analysis and incident response with CylanceOPTICS.\u201d<\/p>\n

Key capabilities of CylanceOPTICS include:<\/p>\n