Nowadays, you need to be able to detect when someone – internal or external – is accessing your data. This is not only critical for audit purposes, but access can also be the initial indication of trouble. Untrusted access or strange data access patterns are often associated with the initial stages of Ransomeware or Exfiltration. As an example, a couple months ago, Royal Mail was hit with
LockBit. As their files were being encrypted, it created a pattern – this pattern is recognizable. At Superna, our software detects several hundred unusual patterns, and we are constantly adding capabilities around virus strains and emerging threats. When it comes to our customers, we frequently will detect when a burrowing event or activity suggestive of ransomware is taking place. More specifically, if we were to observe an attack like LockBit, we would detect the anomaly and, can trigger an air-gap of data and loc- out the IP address that posed the threat. This is the next level of security, and it runs specifically at
the data layer.
Sometimes, the threat you face is an internal bad actor who already has access to your network. Because we have an AI
learning layer that’s looking at data access patterns, we can detect when a person operating at the data layer is behaving in a way that’s “outside of the norm.” So, when someone who normally accesses certain data environments is now touching seven
other shares, maybe making copies of them, or conducting what looks like mass deletes, their access can be frozen and they can be locked-out. We’re in the process of evolving this capability to trigger action via a SOAR security automation framework. One of the first integrations we’re launching is with ServiceNow. In many cases, our security presence at the data layer is the last line of defense, but in some cases, we might be the
first line of defense, detecting what could – if left unchecked – become worse… much worse.