Palo Alto Launches Magnifier: Cloud-Based Behavioral Analytics App
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| 24/01/2018
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Palo Alto Networks announced the availability of Magnifier, a cloud-based behavioral analytics application delivered through Palo Alto Networks Application Framework that allows organizations to rapidly identify and prevent threats.
As part of Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform, Magnifier applies machine learning to rich network, endpoint, and cloud data, precisely detecting and preventing targeted attacks, insider abuse, and endpoint compromise.
Palo Alto Networks Magnifier delivers the first easily consumed cloud-based behavioral analytics offering to automatically identify and prevent attackers from dwelling inside networks and successfully executing cyberattacks, the company says in a press release. Its integration with Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform, along with Palo Alto Networks Logging Service, enables highly accurate attack detection powered by scalable, agile, cloud-based machine learning.
Magnifier behavioral analytics offers several new capabilities. First, it analyzes data from next-generation firewalls and Pathfinder endpoint analysis service to profile user and device behavior. Because its detection algorithms are tailored for the logs sent by the Next-Generation Security Platform, Magnifier can apply precise machine learning and attack detection algorithms compared to inspecting generic log files for threats. As a result, Magnifier generates a small number of highly accurate and actionable alerts.
Secondly, Magnifier streamlines threat hunting efforts by automatically interrogating suspicious endpoints to determine which processes are responsible for attack behaviors. It then analyzes the processes, using Palo Alto Networks WildFire cloud-based threat analysis service, to determine if they are malicious. Magnifier's endpoint analysis and detailed alerts with full investigative detail enable security analysts to immediately review and respond to incidents.
Additionally, Palo Alto Networks customers can implement behavioral analytics simply by enabling the Magnifier application with the cloud-based Palo Alto Networks Logging Service, using their existing Palo Alto Networks firewalls as sensors to collect telemetry data from their networks, without a need to purchase and maintain additional networking devices or costly on-premise logging servers.
Illustration: Bigstock
Palo Alto Networks announced the availability of Magnifier, a cloud-based behavioral analytics application delivered through Palo Alto Networks Application Framework that allows organizations to rapidly identify and prevent threats.
As part of Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform, Magnifier applies machine learning to rich network, endpoint, and cloud data, precisely detecting and preventing targeted attacks, insider abuse, and endpoint compromise.
Palo Alto Networks Magnifier delivers the first easily consumed cloud-based behavioral analytics offering to automatically identify and prevent attackers from dwelling inside networks and successfully executing cyberattacks, the company says in a press release. Its integration with Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform, along with Palo Alto Networks Logging Service, enables highly accurate attack detection powered by scalable, agile, cloud-based machine learning.
Magnifier behavioral analytics offers several new capabilities. First, it analyzes data from next-generation firewalls and Pathfinder endpoint analysis service to profile user and device behavior. Because its detection algorithms are tailored for the logs sent by the Next-Generation Security Platform, Magnifier can apply precise machine learning and attack detection algorithms compared to inspecting generic log files for threats. As a result, Magnifier generates a small number of highly accurate and actionable alerts.
Secondly, Magnifier streamlines threat hunting efforts by automatically interrogating suspicious endpoints to determine which processes are responsible for attack behaviors. It then analyzes the processes, using Palo Alto Networks WildFire cloud-based threat analysis service, to determine if they are malicious. Magnifier's endpoint analysis and detailed alerts with full investigative detail enable security analysts to immediately review and respond to incidents.
Additionally, Palo Alto Networks customers can implement behavioral analytics simply by enabling the Magnifier application with the cloud-based Palo Alto Networks Logging Service, using their existing Palo Alto Networks firewalls as sensors to collect telemetry data from their networks, without a need to purchase and maintain additional networking devices or costly on-premise logging servers.
