UPDATED 18:30 EDT / NOVEMBER 16 2018

SECURITY

Lock up your data: Optimizing security one platform at a time

As technology expands and affords organizations unprecedented opportunities to capture critical business data, protecting sensitive information becomes increasingly difficult. Unfortunately, even with the multitude of security options available, data breaches and hacks still persist and force users to incur dangerous consequences.

“There’s just too many alerts, too many security tools, very fragmented landscape, and there’s not enough analysts to handle all the security events that are coming up,” said Slavik Markovich (pictured), founder and chief executive officer at Demisto Inc.

Markovich spoke with Peter Burris (@plburris), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at theCUBE’s studio in Palo Alto, California. They discussed how to improve job retention rates among security analysts and how to optimize the handling of alerts and issues.

Happy workers make secure users

Contrary to many security analysts’ job expectations, most of their work consists of mundane tasks, such as monitoring failed logins, virtual private network alerts, password change attempts, and phishing scams. As a result, many workers seldom last more than 18 or 20 months, according to Markovich. Moreover, there is no consistent process regarding the handling of advanced issues.

Demisto provides a single platform to handle the life of the security operations center, which includes knowledge management, all of the processes, and the people assigning it. “But beyond that, we allow you to specify a consistent process like you do in a visual chart,” Markovich explained.

Essentially, users can drag and drop steps and replace them with automations due to integrations with hundreds of security tools that provide thousands of actions across them. But the automation does not replace the analysts, Markovich emphasized.

“We do allow you to basically apply a process, a consistent process, that has automations to make their analysts’ work much more efficient,” he stated.

Demisto is hiring rapidly and seeking to enhance its platform even further by using machine learning to recommend troubleshooting procedures from alert data.

Watch the entire video interview with Markovich below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s CUBE Conversations.

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