INTRUSION Successfully Completes Beta Testing of its Newest Cybersecurity Solution, Shield; Announces General Availability
January 13 2021 - 7:15AM
With recent cyberwarfare attacks being carried out against the
United States, the general availability of the new cybersecurity
solution from
INTRUSION Inc. (NASDAQ: INTZ),
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.
“This product just does not exist in the market
today and is sorely needed,” said Aaron, chief information security
corporate officer (CISCO) for B. Riley Financial, who participated
in beta testing.
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.
“With the high-risk patterns we’ve incorporated
into the rule set that feeds our AI, along with the reputation and
suspicious activity that it searches for while monitoring all
traffic in and out of a network, we can confidently say
Shield would have protected our customers where
clearly other security approaches failed,” said Jack B. Blount,
President and CEO of INTRUSION. “The malware had been living on the
SolarWinds network for at least nine months undetected – it got
past firewalls and many other cybersecurity products. This is all
the more reason companies need a multi-layered approach to
cybersecurity, and specifically one that stops threats in real-time
to protect them from the damage cybercriminals can cause over
time.”
All companies participating in the beta program
have made the decision to move forward with Shield
in production.
“The Shield solution has shown
us that virtually every network is already infected, and front-end
protection is not possible. The understanding that networks are
already compromised and that the only means of protection is to
monitor and restrict outgoing traffic is the breakthrough of the
Shield philosophy,” said Richard, President of
NovaTech.
Additionally, false positive security alerts –
where legitimate traffic is identified as a threat – are a
significant problem among cybersecurity solutions available today,
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.
“Businesses simply can’t afford to keep using
the same cybersecurity solutions that aren’t adequately protecting
them,” said Blount. “As shown by our beta testing results,
Shield offers the best new layer of protection to
keep businesses of all sizes safe from the cybercrime that causes
hundreds of them to go out of business completely.”
“The ease and instant protection of
Shield has been great,” said Michael, Portfolio
Manager for Bard Associates. “It’s so simple to implement and run,
yet highly effective.”
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.
Shield is now available at a
low cost of $20 per seat ($2,000 minimum) per month with no annual
contract required. Visit https://www.intrusion.com/shield for more
information.
INTRUSION will be releasing
case studies from Shield beta testing in the
coming weeks.
About INTRUSION Inc.
INTRUSION, Inc. is a global
provider of entity identification, high speed data mining,
cybercrime and advanced persistent threat detection solutions.
INTRUSION’s family of solutions includes
Shield™, a combination of plug-n-play hardware,
software, global data, and real-time Artificial Intelligence (AI)
services that provide organizations with the most robust
cybersecurity defense possible, TraceCop™ for
identity discovery and disclosure, and Savant™ for
network data mining and advanced persistent threat detection.
INTRUSION’s solutions help protect critical
information assets by quickly detecting, protecting, analyzing and
reporting attacks or misuse of classified, private and regulated
information for government and enterprise networks. For more
information, please
visit www.intrusion.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward
Looking Information
This release may contain certain forward-looking
statements, including, without limitations, statements about the
performance of protections provided by our Shield products, or
other statements which reflect management's expectations regarding
future events and operating performance and speak only as of the
date hereof. These forward-looking statements involve a number of
risks and uncertainties, including, the risk that our Shield
product does not perform as anticipated. These statements are made
under the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and involve risks and uncertainties
which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in
the forward-looking statements, including, risks that we have
detailed in the Company's most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form
10-Q, particularly under the heading “Risk Factors.”
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