{"id":70,"date":"2013-12-28T14:19:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T14:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/?p=70"},"modified":"2014-01-06T14:33:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T14:33:51","slug":"cyberark-provides-actionable-analytics-for-iam-to-prevent-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/cyberark-provides-actionable-analytics-for-iam-to-prevent-cyber-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"CyberArk Provides Actionable Analytics for IAM to Prevent Cyber-Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Identity<\/a>In late 2013 CyberArk, a leader in securing enterprises against cyber-attacks, announced the availability of a new analytics solutions that detects malicious privileged account behavior. Privileged Threat Analytics from CyberArk is intended to disrupt in-progress attacks before damage is done to the business and is apparently the industry\u2019s first solutions with such capabilities.<\/p>\n

Providing targeted and actionable analytics Privileged Threat Analytics allows IT to address what security consultancy firm\u00a0Mandiant says is a primary target for internal and advanced external attacks. \u201cAPT intruders prefer to leverage privileged accounts where possible, such as domain administrators, service accounts with domain privileges, local administrator accounts, and privileged user accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n

The release of Privileged Threat Analytics helps to protect organizations against what CyberArk is calling the new \u201cbattleground\u201d for security which they claim is now inside the network. Roy Adar, vice president of product management for CyberArk states that, \u201c\u201cOrganizations must assume attackers have already penetrated the perimeter and once inside, will almost always attempt to take control of privileged accounts to advance their attack. Customers are asking for controls on privileged accounts, coupled with the ability to detect suspicious activity to protect their organizations from evolving threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is a quick list of the benefits provided by Privileged Threat Analytics from CyberArk\u2019s press release:<\/p>\n