Lockheed Martin Releases Made-In-Israel Cyber System
Lockheed Martin Releases Made-In-Israel Cyber System
March 10, 2016
The Times of Israel — The U.S. aerospace and data protection firm Lockheed Martin released a cyber security solution incorporating technology developed by Cybereason, an Israeli cyber security startup.
In 2014, Lockheed Martin, EMC Israel, and Ben-Gurion University signed an agreement in which the three organizations committed to work together to identify promising Israeli cyber security startups, and help them develop their technology into commercial products.
Lockheed Martin opened its Israel offices in 2014 in Beer-Sheva’s Advanced Technologies Park located across from BGU’s Marcus Family Campus.
One of the companies the group connected with was Cybereason, which takes a different approach to cyber security than most companies.
“Most people think of cyber security as an IT issue, and that if a computer ‘appears’ clean and acts normally, it is,” says Lior Div, chief executive officer of Cybereason.
“That isn’t usually the case, though, as hackers can act in a very stealthy manner without the victim of an attack even realizing what is going on.”
Cybereason uses what Div calls silent sensors to discover attacks.
Cybereason Founders: Chief Executive Officer Lior Div, Chief Technology Officer Yonatan Striem-Amit and Chief Visionary Officer Yossi Naar
“We use a big data approach, checking every piece of data going into or out of a machine,” says Div.
The sensor system was one thing that drew Lockheed Martin to Cybereason.
After collaborating for more than a year, the companies developed and released Wisdom EDR™, Lockheed Martin threat intelligence powered by Cybereason’s endpoint detection and response (EDR) platform, at the recent RSA security conference in San Francisco.
The system uses software sensors that allow customers to mitigate cyber attacks at their root and better understand the nature of the breach that allowed hackers in, so that it can be repaired.
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