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GSN 2016 DIGITAL YEARBOOK OF HOMELAND SECURITY AWARDS RECIPIENTS
2016
Vendors of IT and Cybersecurity Products and Solutions
CyberArk
2016 Winner
Awards Category:
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Best Continuous Monitoring and Mitigation Solution
Reason this entry deserves to win:
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Privileged account protection and threat detection are
at the center of many federal requirements designed to
secure agencies from both internal and external threats.
Third-party contractors, like Harold Martin and Edward
Snowden, add another significant layer of complexity.
Contractors are typically not controlled by an organization’s
internal policies, yet they often have the same – or
greater – levels of privileged access to internal networks
and information.
The CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution
offers proactive protection of privileged credentials and
threat detection of privileged account activities, while also
enabling federal organizations to respond to advanced
threats. Proactive protection includes the secure storage
and management of privileged credentials, monitoring
and isolation of privileged account sessions, and the
enforcement of least privilege and application control at
the endpoint. The CyberArk solution also features targeted
analytics and the ability to analyze network traffic to better
detect indications of an attack early in the lifecycle, includ-
ing credential theft, lateral movement and privilege escalation.
Incident response teams use CyberArk to quickly
identify threats and shut down in-progress attacks.
Specifically, with its privileged threat analytics capabilities,
CyberArk enables government entities to dramatically
shorten an attacker’s window of opportunity and reduce
damage; rapidly detect attacks with analytics based on
built-in and continuously-updated algorithms; prioritize
incidents that require immediate attention by conducting
event correlation and raising the risk score on critical incidents;
adapt threat detection to a changing risk environment
with machine learning algorithms that continuously
adjust baseline behavior profiles as authorized behavior
changes over time; and automatically respond to a suspected
stolen privileged credential to stop an attacker’s
movement and accelerate remediation.
With its privileged session monitoring capabilities, Cy-
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