Expanded Ecosystem Delivers Comprehensive Solutions to
Address Increasing Cyberthreats
WATERLOO, ON, Oct. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry
Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced new partners Okta,
Mimecast, Stellar Cyber and XM Cyber to its extended detection and
response (XDR) ecosystem. These new partnerships will help to
deliver a cohesive, holistic view of a customer's security threat
posture.
BlackBerry's cloud-delivered XDR provides a set of security
products and modules designed to interoperate and coordinate on
threat prevention, detection, and response, powered by a
purpose-built cloud-native unified cybersecurity platform.
BlackBerry's XDR addresses the challenges faced by SOC teams by
unifying siloed tools (including select third parties) into
security platforms that natively collect, ingest, correlate, and
stitch together telemetry collected across the entire attack
surface, such as, endpoints, cloud, networks, user, apps and
mobile, into its centralized cloud-native data lake.
BlackBerry's XDR ecosystem is unique in the market in that it is
built on a prevention-first platform approach. Unlike competing XDR
ecosystems which use a response-first approach, BlackBerry's
prevention-first approach allows threats to be identified in a
partner's telemetry before the threat propagates further in the
environment.
"The global shift to remote work arrangements has increased
cybersecurity risks beyond experts' initial estimates," comments
Billy Ho, Executive Vice President
of Product Engineering, BlackBerry. "To address the growing number
and severity of cyberthreats BlackBerry is expanding its XDR
partner ecosystem to work with industry leaders and meet the
demands of today's workplace, delivering comprehensive solutions
that include network telemetry, behavioral analysis and continuous
authentication, in addition to the capabilities that our partners
are providing."
BlackBerry's XDR is built on the foundation of BlackBerry's
endpoint detection and response (EDR) workflows, and it expands
these across the entire attack surface. BlackBerry's XDR then
applies both built-in threat models mapped to MITRE ATT&CK® TTP
and AI-enabled behavioral detection for preventing and detecting
KNOWN and UNKNOWN threats in real-time. It also stitches the siloed
security signals into a high-fidelity incident investigation
timeline summary that helps connect and visualize the broader kill
chain view.
BlackBerry is working with additional partners to expand its XDR
ecosystem and looks forward to making additional partner
announcements in the future.
To find out more about becoming a BlackBerry partner, please
visit https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/partners
Partner quotes:
"Simply put, identity must be a critical component of your
overall security strategy. With Okta and BlackBerry working
together we can improve security, visibility, and event correlation
for users, endpoints and networks." said Lee Tschetter, Director of Technical Strategy,
at Okta. "Our mutual customers are already benefiting from the
integration between Okta and the BlackBerry® unified endpoint
security (UES) platform, so this investment into XDR will
further enable any organization to provide improved security, and a
best-in-class user experience, in an increasingly complex work
environment."
"We are delighted to be working with BlackBerry to enhance XDR
capabilities for joint customers," said Jules Martin, VP ecosystem and alliances at
Mimecast. "Email is the number one attack vector for threat actors,
and in this new era of remote and hybrid work, attacks have become
more advanced and prolific. Defending against email threats is
essential – so with the threat protection provided by Mimecast's
comprehensive cloud-based email security solution combined with
endpoint, user and network visibility from BlackBerry's XDR
platform, joint customers will have greater insights into the
threat vectors attempting to compromise business email."
"BlackBerry is a leader in leveraging ML for cyberattack
prevention, and Stellar Cyber complements their solutions by
leveraging ML to automate threat detection and response," said
Brian Stoner, VP of Service
Providers at Stellar Cyber. "Through this partnership, our
resellers and go-to-market partners can deliver additional value to
BlackBerry customers by adding advanced security operations center
capabilities to their existing investments."
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB)
provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises
and governments around the world. The company secures more than
500M endpoints including over
195M vehicles. Based in
Waterloo, Ontario, the company
leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions
in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy solutions,
and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security, endpoint
management, encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's vision
is clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
BlackBerry. Intelligent Security. Everywhere.
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