The theme of this year’s Interop Japan was “To an Increasingly Interconnected World,” with a focus on how organizations can manage a future where interconnectivity between endpoints, devices, infrastructure and everything else continues to increase exponentially. Many of the vendors at the show focused on the infrastructure required to support such a vision, particularly on delivering the “as-a-service” cloud deployment model, big-data and Software Defined Networking (SDN) needed to create a connected world.
What were conspicuously underrepresented in the conference were the solutions that would secure such an interconnected world. That the judges at Interop chose FireEye’s Threat Analytics Platform (TAP) as the Best of Show for the Cloud Services category from all of the innovative “connected world” solutions was a nod to the importance of security in this new world.
FireEye COO, Kevin Mandia accepts the award for “Best of Show for Cloud Services” at Interop Japan
As companies and governments move towards greater interconnectivity, securing the requisite infrastructure is only going to get exponentially harder. Organizations today already have challenges securing and monitoring all of their network equipment, endpoints, and security equipment. It is not uncommon for organizations to see millions or even billions of events a day from their infrastructure. Unfortunately, collecting the information is the easy part, finding the events that matter is the hard part. Sophisticated attackers know this as well and prey upon the inability of organizations to find evil in all of the noise to continuously target specific industries with a variety of malware and non-malware based attacks.
Protecting organizations from these threats require a different solution paradigm and FireEye’s Threat Analytics Platform (TAP) was created to specifically solve this challenge. TAP is a security incident detection and response management platform specifically designed to help organizations secure themselves by finding the events that matter and remediating the issue before any damage can be done. It applies interlinked strategic intelligence on threat actors and threat intelligence gleaned from the front lines for faster detection and response to malware & non-malware based-attacks across network, host and event data. Delivered as a hosted security Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution, TAP leverages a highly scalable and secure architecture to scale as necessary without burdening the organization with the operational complexity, hardware infrastructure or support resources required for traditional on premise solutions.
The FireEye TAP team is pleased to be acknowledged by Interop Japan on the importance of our mission to help our customers find evil and secure themselves from determined adversaries. We are committed to continuing to deliver on our mission and we have a lot of new exciting capabilities that we are launching soon. Stay tuned to our upcoming TAP announcement by subscribing to the FireEye blog today.
