Cyber-security company Forcepoint launched its SureView Insider Threat product for the Philippine market earlier today, September 7 in Makati.
The SureView Insider Threat is a security tool that allows companies to prevent attacks coming from the inside such as: compromised users or victims of blackmail, social engineering, or cyber attacks; intentional insiders or individuals who abuse their access to vital company information and engage in anomalous behavior; and accidental insiders, or those working around broken business processes or those that receive very minimal employment training.
The product is part of Forcepoint’s Raytheon-powered suite of cybersecurity products including content security, cloud security, and network security.
With escalating security threats coming from both external and internal sources, Forcepoint aims to provide companies with tools that will help them detect breaches faster to be able to minimize the damage to their digital assets.
Joshua Kooh, strategic security consultant for the company’s Southeast Asian operations, conducted a demonstration at a press lunch earlier today in Makati the features of the product.
SureView aims to let governments and companies monitor risky behavior by employees, contractors and users easier which Kooh compares to “finding a needle in the haystack.”
The tool identifies risk by recording a baseline for normal user behavior, and any activity that deviates from that is automatically flagged with a lower score on record which those monitoring the users can easily see.
Also present on the interface is a comprehensive record of usage information and what contributes to the user’s low rating.
Companies can also record questionable behavior through the tool’s video capture function, which has already been used as evidence in litigation in the United States.
Senior director of sales for Forcepoint Southeast Asia, Alex Lim said that the tool along with the rest of the company’s security suite is not aimed at any particular industry or government sector, adding that the tools that the company offers can be used by “any industry that thinks digital assets are important.”
On average, insider security breaches escape detection for an average of 259 days, longer than the 170-day average for external breaches. Lim said that what the product aims to lessen this “dwell time” or the interval between the actual breach and detection.
“Insiders do more damage and go undetected longer than external threats. Until now, global enterprises haven’t had an effective tool to protect against threats from within. Forcepoint is redefining what it means to secure an organization, by thinking more in terms of ‘inside-out’ rather than ‘outside-in,’ said Forcepoint’s chief executive officer Matthew Moynahan in a statement made earlier.
Forcepoint was previously known as Websense until it announced the name change in January upon defense contractor Raytheon’s acquisition of the company from Vista Partners LLC last year.
Forcepoint’s products have been used across different industries and governments, including the US federal government.