Arista Unveils Attack Surface Assessment Service
December 21 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Delivers AI-driven advanced threat hunting and
incident response expertise
Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced an Attack Surface
Assessment, an advanced security service delivered through the
recent acquisition of Awake Security. This new offering identifies
cyber security risks from devices, users or third-party systems,
especially those that go unmonitored today since they are beyond
the visibility of the security team. Designed and delivered by
experts who have responded to some of the world’s most
consequential breaches, this assessment focuses on detecting and
evicting the attacker rapidly.
“CIOs are becoming increasingly concerned about security as it
has become more complex,” stated Golan Ben-Oni, CIO, IDT
Corporation. “To make matters worse, sponsored groups can steal
intellectual property and attack resources that are now in the
wild. Big companies and banks are still getting hacked and
technologies like IoT are huge threats. We need to reboot security
and make it simple to manage. I believe Arista Networks is
simplifying security.”
Arista’s new assessment service is a fitting example of
simplified security. It proactively finds threats to devices and
applications known to the IT and security teams, as well as shadow
IT and unmanaged infrastructure across client to campus, data
center and cloud.
“Sophisticated threats are no longer reliant on traditional
malware,” said Rahul Kashyap, Vice President and General Manager,
Arista’s NDR Security Division. “The recent supply chain attacks
have exposed gaps in security programs. This new offering
reinforces our commitment to help our customers defend against
Sunburst and future threats.”
Secure Client to Cloud Networking
Fundamental to addressing those gaps is understanding the broad
digital attack surface organizations expose, from client to cloud
networks. The Attack Surface Assessment provides customers access
to the industry-leading NDR platform to proactively discover,
detect and respond to threats targeting digital assets within the
organization. Unlike other security technologies that merely
identify malicious behavior, the Awake Security Platform goes
beyond to separate the known good and identifies any malicious
intent lurking in between. With this cognitive knowledge, Arista
and Awake experts then perform threat hunting to uncover signs of
highly targeted attacks as well as systemic weaknesses that open an
organization to risk. The assessment also includes an incident
response retainer in case a breach is uncovered.
The industry is dealing with the complexity of attacks that
permeate cloud, security and networking assets. Arista’s
network-based approach delivers detection and response for IT, IoT,
shadow IT and infrastructures across client to campus, data center
and cloud.
For more details on Awake’s approach to detecting supply chains
threats like the SolarWinds / Sunburst campaign read our blog at
https://awakesecurity.com/blog/detecting-supply-chain-threats-like-solarwinds-sunburst/.
For technical insights see
https://awakesecurity.com/blog/a-network-threat-hunting-playbook-for-advanced-attacks/.
About Arista Networks
Arista Networks is an industry leader in cognitive cloud
networking solutions for large data center and campus environments.
Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility,
automation analytics, and security through CloudVision® and Arista
EOS®, an advanced network operating system. For more information,
visit www.arista.com.
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