How many cybersecurity solutions do you use in your enterprise? You are likely to use several, such as endpoint security, firewalls, and data loss prevention solutions; you may use multiple endpoint security solutions for different platforms and equipment; you may also have an outsourced Security Operations Centre (SOC); and you may receive multiple vulnerability assessment reports from cybersecurity consultants.
Question: How do you trace the thread (and threat) of an attack across all these?
This is the critical question facing all security teams and leaders in enterprises. Cybersecurity is highly fragmented across various solutions and vendors, and the complexity and fragmentation can increase when facilities are spread across multiple jurisdictions with varying compliance requirements. These solutions do not talk to each other, requiring security teams to view multiple dashboards and reports to try to piece together an understanding of cybersecurity across the organisation as if assembling a jigsaw puzzle. And as different stakeholders require different views of cybersecurity, they have to each attempt to assemble a different jigsaw puzzle.
Result: A great deal of effort, which may be duplicated, and poor results as it is very difficult to gather the threads and weave together a comprehensive view of enterprise cybersecurity.
Solution: What you need is a platform that can integrate all the cybersecurity solutions your organisation uses and will use, provide advanced threat hunting tools, automate responses to security events, and provide dashboards and reports that suit the requirements of different stakeholders. This platform is K7 InfiniShield.
K7 InfiniShield
K7 InfiniShield is a unified platform that integrates cybersecurity solutions and digital touchpoints through APIs and a marketplace of sensors, and performs AI-assisted analysis to surface threat signals and deliver contextual alerts – from a single, centralised console. Single-pane-of-glass cybersecurity enables security professionals to quickly gain the information they need and shift from a reactive cybersecurity posture to proactive prevention of attacks.
K7 InfiniShield does not require additional hardware or virtual machines to collect data, and instead uses host-based agents to act as data collectors which reduces both complexity and the total cost of ownership.
K7 InfiniShield also includes Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services that enable perpetual improvement in enterprise cybersecurity posture.
Let us examine how K7 InfiniShield helps cybersecurity stakeholders in the real world.
How K7 InfiniShield is a Gamechanger for Cybersecurity Stakeholders
K7 InfiniShield changes the game for enterprise cybersecurity stakeholders by enhancing 5 critical aspects of cybersecurity:
- Visibility, for CISOs
- Security, for IT Managers
- Observability, for CIOs
- Compliance, for Compliance Officers
- Operations, for IT Departments
1. Visibility – For CISOs
The CISO’s Challenge
CISOs receive separate vulnerability reports for networks, endpoints, and applications. Outsourced SOC partners send tickets and reports that need to be correlated with vulnerability reports. The CISO is also responsible for maintaining compliance with multiple standards and jurisdictions. The CISO needs visibility across the enterprise to ensure cybersecurity is maintained – but such visibility is usually not provided by conventional cybersecurity platforms.
How K7 InfiniShield Solves the CISO’s Challenge
K7 InfiniShield provides extensive and quick visibility and helps CISOs manage enterprise cybersecurity by providing
- Single-pane-of-glass view across the entire enterprise
- Monitoring for vulnerabilities
- AI-enhanced, real-time, MITRE ATT&CK based threat detection
- Security event correlation with root cause tracing
- Patch management to ensure compliance, with a dashboard indicating patch status supporting drilldown to individual devices
2. Security, for IT Managers
The IT Manager’s Challenge
IT Managers are responsible for maintaining the health of the organisation’s IT infrastructure and cybersecurity is an important aspect of such health. They need to be able to map and minimise the attack surface; trace the path of an attack to identify impacted users and accounts; view network connections to identify unauthorised devices and understand how a cyberattack might spread; and perform remote analysis and remediation of cybersecurity events. Conventional cybersecurity infrastructure does not offer such capability out of the box, and IT managers are continuously firefighting, adopt reactive measures, and constantly switch between multiple tools to carry out their functions.
How K7 InfiniShield Solves the IT Manager’s Challenge
K7 InfiniShield provides the functionality that an IT Manager needs from a single console, offers and integrates cybersecurity products, and includes cybersecurity services that help IT Managers meet their responsibilities.
- Proprietary Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) for device protection and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) for integration of 3rd party solutions, users, devices, applications, data, networks, and the cloud
- Security Operations Centre (SOC) services for monitoring and analysing cybersecurity events
- Fully managed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) to integrate and correlate data from any source
- Attack Surface Management (ASM) to control and minimise the enterprise’s digital footprint and reduce exposure to cyberattacks
- Active Directory integration to trace the complete attack path with details on individual user’s access to service accounts
- Remote remediation with shell access from a browser
- Remote fetching of malware for analysis
- Comprehensive log management with a data lake for extensive storage, enabling log analysis to understand communication between devices and identify unauthorised devices; analysis of both historical and real-time logs is supported
3. Observability, for CIOs
The CIO’s Challenge
The CIO is responsible for the enterprise’s digital strategy and ensuring that computing infrastructure supports corporate objectives including meeting compliance obligations. CIOs need extensive metrics on digital infrastructure, both from a bird’s eye view and at an individual support ticket level; device and network health information; and tools to maintain data security. Conventional cybersecurity platforms are not designed to support the broad spectrum of a CIO’s duties and CIOs struggle to gather data and derive meaningful inferences from the limited data available to them.
How K7 InfiniShield Solves the CIO’s Challenge
K7 InfiniShield provides extensive data and insight that a CISO can access from a single console, offering customisable reports and dashboards with at-a-glance views of infrastructure status and supports drilling down to specific areas of concern.
- Dashboards for compliance with standards, baseline policy, and benchmarks e.g., CIS benchmarks, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and NIST framework
- Quick view of
- Machine health (fully patched and compliant)
- Software in the network, to identify unauthorised or pirated applications
- Asset summaries of
- Software packages and publishers, to avoid publishers from blacklisted nations
- Hosts by manufacturer, to avoid manufacturers from blacklisted nations
- Users, to identify unauthorised users
- Managed devices, to uncover at-risk devices
- CPU utilisation and disk space consumption, to anticipate performance bottlenecks and plan for upgrades
- Sensor-based Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) for patents, Intellectual Property (IP), and other crown jewels, to monitor file creation, deletion, movement, or modification
- Network health monitoring to ascertain patch status of machines
- Ticket status (open/close), category, type, and assignee for SLA monitoring
4. Compliance, for Compliance Officers
The Compliance Officer’s Challenge
Data driven business models, data breaches, and cyber warfare have resulted in increasingly stringent regulations surrounding data privacy and cybersecurity. Every enterprise has to comply with multiple regulations, and regulations can be specific to each region in which the enterprise operates. Compliance officers have to ensure that compliance is maintained for all regulations, across all regions, all the time. The complexity of regulations and the scale of digital infrastructure in modern enterprises make it difficult for compliance officers to gather the right data within the required timeframe to ensure that compliance is maintained.
How K7 InfiniShield Solves the Compliance Officer’s Challenge
K7 InfiniShield provides quick access to the information, and tools, that Compliance Officers need to ensure regulations across multiple jurisdictions are not violated.
- Compliance dashboard
- Inbuilt templates for major standards and regulations
- Descriptions of compliance requirements e.g., passwords should have a mixture of characters and numbers
- Details of non-compliance e.g., insufficient password length for ISO 27001
- Vulnerability visibility (patch status)
- Automation of patching to mitigate vulnerabilities
5. Operations, for IT Departments
The IT Department’s Challenge
IT team members have many repetitive tasks to perform, including administrative tasks such as responding to tickets and sending emails. While necessary, the time and effort required for such tasks, which keep recurring, prevents IT team members from moving up the value chain and contributing to initiatives that have strategic impact.
How K7 InfiniShield Solves the IT Department’s Challenge
K7 InfiniShield helps IT Departments improve efficiency and productivity by providing the tools to automate routine tasks and simplify administrative tasks, allowing team members to accept more responsibilities.
- Integrated ticketing that allows IT teams to raise tickets or edit existing tickets from the issue in the dashboard, assign tickets, and track status
- AI-enabled automation that enables automation of issue remediation and tasks including responding to tickets and emails
- Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) enables IT department members to easily perform security interventions such as capturing and deleting malicious files or resetting passwords
- Remote remediation by enabling execution of shell commands on impacted endpoints from the console
- Data flows for predefined actions triggered by security events
- Agent reconfiguration for rule updates and execution of scripts
Enterprise cybersecurity leaders and teams should be able to focus on pre-emptive action based on reports and insight, rather than spending time gathering data and generating reports which is their current reality. K7 InfiniShield can enable that change. Contact Us to experience how K7 InfiniShield can transform cybersecurity and compliance in your enterprise.
