NTT Security cooperates with Recorded Future in Switzerland
NTT Security (Switzerland) AG, part of NTT Group and a specialist in information security and risk management, has agreed a cooperation with the threat intelligence specialist Recorded Future. The partnership is designed to strengthen NTT Security's marketing of services in the areas of advanced security and analytics, SIEM and incident response, according to the company.
Recorded Future, an American company founded in 2009 and headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts, develops and sells threat intelligence solutions based on machine learning. In other words, mathematical-statistical models are used to identify malicious files and generate threat forecasts. The company analyzes millions of documents in seven languages on the Internet every day. Texts, videos and audio files are searched for specific keywords. Recorded Future currently uses a total of around 750,000 sources - from Chinese forums to the pages of Russian online criminals.
Real-time image of the threat situation
"Recorded Future's technological approach is extremely impressive. It's not for nothing that four of the world's top five corporations or numerous governments and intelligence agencies use the solutions," explains Tom Hager, Country Manager of NTT Security (Switzerland) AG, in Au ZH. "But of course, the solutions must first be adequately implemented and configured. Furthermore, it is necessary to correctly evaluate and interpret the data obtained in order to generate added value for a company. These complex tasks, which require know-how, expertise and resources, are handled by NTT Security."
Ideally, the data obtained is enriched by additional findings and its significance is further increased by correlations. "NTT Security is also predestined for these tasks," continues Hager, "because as a globally active provider, we monitor and analyze messages and faults from a wide variety of IT infrastructures from thousands of customers, and use this database to create a real-time picture of the threat situation."
"Optimal complement for NTT Security"
NTT Security pursues a holistic consulting approach in Switzerland. The company relies on close cooperation with national and international technology providers such as Recorded Future and is continuously expanding its solution portfolio.
Recorded Future's solution is an ideal complement to NTT Security's service offering in the areas of SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), Advanced Analytics, Vulnerability Management and Incident Response. NTT Security recently launched its Incident Response service in Switzerland. The company is responding to the current strong increase in market demand in this segment. "An elementary challenge in the defense against cyber attacks naturally lies in the area of detection. Early detection is indispensable here, and must be based on the evaluation of real-time data and proactive monitoring," explains Hager. "With the additional threat intelligence feeds from Recorded Future available as part of the partnership and the data from our own Global Threat Intelligence Centers (GTIC), we are creating a database with which we are increasing the quality of threat analysis to a considerable extent. And of course, our customers in Switzerland are the first to benefit from this quality."
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