INTRUSION Successfully Completes Beta Testing of Its Newest Cybersecurity Solution, Shield; Announces General Availability
January 13, 2021 at 07:15 am
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With recent cyberwarfare attacks being carried out against the United States, the general availability of the new cybersecurity solution from INTRUSION Inc., Shield™, comes at a time when it’s never been more important to expertly protect U.S. organizations – public and private, large to small. Shield is the first solution for the enterprise that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to not only identify malicious activity within a network but to kill the connection, thus stopping those threats in their tracks, protecting companies from debilitating cybercrime.
Beta testing of INTRUSION Shield confirmed the solution’s efficacy by stopping a total of 77,539,801 cyberthreats from 805,110 uniquely malicious entities attempting to breach 13 companies that participated in the 90-day beta program. Shield was able to continuously protect these companies from ransomware, denial of service attacks, malware, data theft, phishing and more. In fact, analysis by INTRUSION also concluded that Shield would have defended against the Sunburst malware that was at the heart of the recent cyberattacks involving SolarWinds and FireEye, which impacted many government agencies and 18,000 SolarWinds customers. All companies participating in the beta program have made the decision to move forward with Shield in production. Additionally, false positive security alerts – where legitimate traffic is identified as a threat – are a significant problem among cybersecurity solutions available now, with Ponemon Institute reporting that most cybersecurity companies see mistaken alerts happening 33% of the time. Cybersecurity professionals spend hundreds of hours investigating these alerts only to determine ultimately that there was no threat. Beta testing for Shield showed a median false positive rate of 0.001% of all traffic, far surpassing other solutions on the market and allowing businesses to run uninterrupted. Multiple beta customers were happy to report they saw zero false positives using Shield. Shield is the only real-time, AI-based cybersecurity solution that utilizes the world’s largest Big Data Cloud of databases built upon 25 years of tracking and researching cybercrime activities. The solution’s AI uses this information to kill known threats, as well as to learn the behaviors of both safe and malicious network traffic. It then works from the inside out – every millisecond of every day – identifying all attempted malware connections coming into, living on, and going out of a network, and immediately stopping them without human intervention.
Intrusion, Inc. is a cybersecurity company. The Company offers its customers access to its threat intelligence database containing the historical data, known associations, and reputational behavior of over 8.5 billion Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. It develops, sells, and supports products that protect any-sized company or government organization by fusing advanced threat intelligence with real-time mitigation to kill cyberattacks as they occur, including Zero-Days. It markets and distributes solutions through value-added resellers, managed service providers and a direct sales force. Its solutions include INTRUSION Shield, INTRUSION TraceCop, and INTRUSION Savant. INTRUSION Shield is a software as a service (SaaS) solution that inspects and kills dangerous network (in and outbound) connections. INTRUSION TraceCop is a big data tool with IP intelligence canvassing the entire Internet. INTRUSION Savant is a network monitoring solution that identifies suspicious traffic in real-time.