XM Cyber Launches Automated APT Simulation Platform
According to the company, HaXM uses advanced attack techniques to expose the most critical blind spots. It provides data-driven remediation that focuses on an organization's most critical assets, reduces its IT risk and enables it to optimize its cyber resources
IsraelDefense
| 25/03/2018
Source: XM Cyber
XM Cyber, an Israel-based company founded by top executives from the Israeli cyber intelligence community, has unveiled HaXM, the first fully automated advanced persistent threat (APT) simulation platform to continuously expose all attack vectors, above and below the surface, from breach point to any critical organizational asset. This continuous loop of automated red teaming is completed by ongoing and prioritized actionable remediation of security gaps. In effect, HaXM operates as an automated purple team that fluidly combines red team and blue team processes to ensure that organizations are always one step ahead of the hacker.
Hackers capitalize on human errors such as misconfigurations, shadow IT and faulty security practices, taking advantage of poor IT hygiene and security vulnerabilities. They use attack techniques and methods that circumvent all cyber defenses, often by employing legitimate tools and leveraging real user behavior. HaXM continuously leverages advanced offensive methods to expose the most critical blind spots. In the process, HaXM provides data-driven remediation that focuses on an organization's critical assets, reduces its IT risk and enables it to optimize its cyber resources.
"The best way to prevent a cyber-attack is to identify in advance the attack vectors hackers will use to compromise an organization's critical assets," said CEO and Co-Founder Noam Erez. "Even when an organization has deployed and configured modern security controls, applied patches, and refined policies, it should still ask 'Are my crown jewels really secure?' as there is a plethora of ways hackers can still infiltrate the system and compromise critical assets.
"This is why we founded XM Cyber: to equip enterprises with a continuous 360° view of which critical assets are at risk, what security issues they should focus on, and how best to harness their resources to resolve them."
Already deployed by customers in North America and EMEA, including leading financial institutions and critical infrastructure organizations, HaXM has uncovered hidden attack vectors within networks in very short timeframes and demonstrated how hackers are able to compromise critical assets, despite the modern security controls and processes in place. It has also provided prioritized, simple-to-follow remediation, increasing the security posture and IT hygiene of the organizations significantly.
Features of HaXM include full mapping of all attack paths at any given time, automatic adaptation to the context of the organization, using misconfigurations, user activity, credentials and security vulnerabilities in the network.
"The shortcomings of both the vulnerability management and penetration ('pen') testing approaches, not to mention the limitations of red team security initiatives, create the market opportunity for XM Cyber, and should enable it to build a customer base in the enterprise and midsize market segments," said Rik Turner, Principal Analyst at Ovum.
XM Cyber was founded by top executives from the Israeli cyber intelligence community, including Tamir Pardo, former Director of the Mossad, and has raised $15M during the past two years. The company employs an elite team of cyber offense and defense veterans, with decades of real-world experience. XM Cyber has offices in the US, Israel, and Australia, and has over fifteen patent-pending technologies based on proprietary algorithms.
[Source: newswire.ca]
According to the company, HaXM uses advanced attack techniques to expose the most critical blind spots. It provides data-driven remediation that focuses on an organization's most critical assets, reduces its IT risk and enables it to optimize its cyber resources
Source: XM Cyber
XM Cyber, an Israel-based company founded by top executives from the Israeli cyber intelligence community, has unveiled HaXM, the first fully automated advanced persistent threat (APT) simulation platform to continuously expose all attack vectors, above and below the surface, from breach point to any critical organizational asset. This continuous loop of automated red teaming is completed by ongoing and prioritized actionable remediation of security gaps. In effect, HaXM operates as an automated purple team that fluidly combines red team and blue team processes to ensure that organizations are always one step ahead of the hacker.
Hackers capitalize on human errors such as misconfigurations, shadow IT and faulty security practices, taking advantage of poor IT hygiene and security vulnerabilities. They use attack techniques and methods that circumvent all cyber defenses, often by employing legitimate tools and leveraging real user behavior. HaXM continuously leverages advanced offensive methods to expose the most critical blind spots. In the process, HaXM provides data-driven remediation that focuses on an organization's critical assets, reduces its IT risk and enables it to optimize its cyber resources.
"The best way to prevent a cyber-attack is to identify in advance the attack vectors hackers will use to compromise an organization's critical assets," said CEO and Co-Founder Noam Erez. "Even when an organization has deployed and configured modern security controls, applied patches, and refined policies, it should still ask 'Are my crown jewels really secure?' as there is a plethora of ways hackers can still infiltrate the system and compromise critical assets.
"This is why we founded XM Cyber: to equip enterprises with a continuous 360° view of which critical assets are at risk, what security issues they should focus on, and how best to harness their resources to resolve them."
Already deployed by customers in North America and EMEA, including leading financial institutions and critical infrastructure organizations, HaXM has uncovered hidden attack vectors within networks in very short timeframes and demonstrated how hackers are able to compromise critical assets, despite the modern security controls and processes in place. It has also provided prioritized, simple-to-follow remediation, increasing the security posture and IT hygiene of the organizations significantly.
Features of HaXM include full mapping of all attack paths at any given time, automatic adaptation to the context of the organization, using misconfigurations, user activity, credentials and security vulnerabilities in the network.
"The shortcomings of both the vulnerability management and penetration ('pen') testing approaches, not to mention the limitations of red team security initiatives, create the market opportunity for XM Cyber, and should enable it to build a customer base in the enterprise and midsize market segments," said Rik Turner, Principal Analyst at Ovum.
XM Cyber was founded by top executives from the Israeli cyber intelligence community, including Tamir Pardo, former Director of the Mossad, and has raised $15M during the past two years. The company employs an elite team of cyber offense and defense veterans, with decades of real-world experience. XM Cyber has offices in the US, Israel, and Australia, and has over fifteen patent-pending technologies based on proprietary algorithms.
[Source: newswire.ca]
