Solution Overview

Benefits
Reduce the time to detect security events. Take in all good
and bad activity on your network, using high-performance
analytics to quickly spot abnormal interactions that may
indicate a potential threat.
Gain an information advantage over attackers when it matters
most. Shift your security focus from data collection and storage
to real-time contextual enrichment and continuous behavioral

analysis of daily network activity with ongoing, automated

learning to stay on top of evolving attack vectors.
Empower your security teams to be as effective and efficient
as possible. Prioritize investigations based on the results of riskbased asset scoring without requiring security teams to
become analytics experts.

SAS Cybersecurity
Understand network patterns to find threats fast

Overview

Challenges

Volumes of data are increasing in information systems. To accurately

detect network and system anomalies amid all this data requires a
higher sensitivity. Only by holistically monitoring all of the connections, interactions and relationships between network assets can you
rule out whats considered normal, and what should be analyzed as
a behavioral abnormality.

The volume and velocity of data both internal and external

is too great for traditional security solutions to consume, correlate, apply context and analyze in real time at the necessary level
of sensitivity.

To get ahead of the growing cybersecurity problem and help

preserve your organizations bottom line and reputation,
SASCybersecurity can help you proactively identify threats and
drive action in real time. By enriching your network data with
business context information, and applying behavioral analytic techniques, SAS Cybersecurity allows you to detect complex patterns,
trends and anomalies in device interactions. And by knowing how
your network devices are supposed to operate, you can recognize
and prioritize potential security events for investigation. Advanced,
high-performance analytics is critical to quickly detect anomalies,
prioritize them and act on the most important areas first and fast!

Signature-based security technologies cant detect new,

advanced, targeted or evolving threats that havent already
been identified. By the time a signature has been developed
and deployed, an attacker can achieve a significant information
advantage about your networks operations.
Security operations centers (SOCs) are overwhelmed investigating what are often faulty or irrelevant alerts from the variety
of traditional security solutions already in place.
Skilled and experienced security talent is in high demand, and
the shortage of such individuals has reached critical levels. With
the frequency and severity of cyberattacks increasing, its more
important than ever to ensure your security teams stay engaged
and focused.

How SAS Can Help

To keep your organization running smoothly and help you prevent
losses, SAS Cybersecurity employs the power of big data and highperformance, predictive analytics to proactively assess security risks.
An underlying analytics platform integrated across your organization,
SAS Cybersecurity uses and complements your existing security
infrastructure investments.
Our solution enriches your network data with business context and
external intelligence, such as threat feeds and investigative results.
We apply behavioral analytics to generate a composite scorecard
of good and bad device connectedness in real time. The analyticsbased prioritization of risk and guidance we provide helps your
organization quickly make educated decisions about what course
of action to pursue.
By unleashing the security knowledge in your organizations data,
SAS Cybersecurity gives you answers without requiring you to know
the questions.

Safeguard systems and information

network behavior analysis with traditional threat intelligence and

other detection techniques to automatically prioritize the highest-risk
areas. Security teams can then take action to prevent financial and
data losses and ensure business continuity.

Gain situational awareness that empowers action

See the full scope of your cyberenvironment from a single source.
The powerful, high-performance analytics in SAS Cybersecurity can
reveal anomalies, connections and patterns in a timely manner that
may be missed in disconnected sources or from partial analyses of
your data.

Stay abreast of trends and adversaries

Increase your ability to spot threats, even as your adversaries get
more sophisticated. Visual data exploration and a self-learning
feedback loop keep the SAS Cybersecurity models up-to-date as
hackers change their methods to evade detection by your systems.
The models evolve continuously throughout the analytic life cycle,
from data collection to correlation, analysis and prioritization.

Identify device abnormalities that may indicate the presence of a

threat before it becomes significant. SAS Cybersecurity combines

The SAS Difference

Proven experience and expertise. Nearly 40 years ago, SAS
pioneered the use of behavioral analytics to solve complex
business problems. Today, our industry-leading big data
analytics and experience in real-time decision making can
help you anticipate and mitigate cyberevents to avoid
financial loss.
Unmatched data management capabilities. We can help you
resolve your big data concerns by correlating and optimizing
your cybersecurity data across the organization, enriching it
with contextual information and prioritizing the intelligence for
rapid consumption by those who need it.

The worlds most advanced analytics. SAS provides layered

analytics and machine learning techniques and delivers the
right analytic approach at the right time from real-time
decision making through ongoing monitoring across the
cyberrisk spectrum.
Pioneers in operationalizing analytics. Were one of the few
advanced analytics providers that can help you fully operationalize analytics into your cybersecurity efforts. Our analytic
and cybersecurity domain experts can help you maximize ROI
and improve TCO of existing security investments by bringing
advanced analytics into your everyday security workflows.

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