HP Delivers Actionable Security Intelligence To Reduce Business Risk

HP has announced the formation of the HP Security Research (HPSR) organisation, a new group that will provide actionable security intelligence through published reports, threat briefings and enhancements to the HP security product portfolio.

The company also released findings from its annual Cyber Security Risk Report, providing insight into the vulnerability landscape, with a range of data covering technologies such as web and mobile.

As part of the HP Enterprise Security Products (ESP) business unit, HPSR will lead HP’s security research agenda, leveraging existing HP research groups, including HP DVLabs, a research organisation focused on vulnerability discovery and analysis, and HP Fortify Software Security Research, which is focused on developing software security practices. HPSR also will manage the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), which focuses on identifying software flaws that have led to cyberattacks and security breaches.

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Driving Security Intelligence Research Into Product Offerings

A core focus of HPSR is to provide research that directly influences the development of the HP ESP portfolio. As such, HP has enhanced its HP Reputation Security Monitor (RepSM) 1.5, which protects clients against advanced threats by leveraging data feeds directly from HPSR. These data feeds enhance the identification of peer-to-peer network use and improve detection of potential spear phishing and spam floods, while also recognising patterns over time, such as reconnaissance scans and abnormal activity levels.

The new HP RepSM enables clients to defend against sophisticated attacks by detecting dangerous interactions with ill-reputed sites to prevent a breach. After a breach occurs, the solution identifies the infected assets, communicating with ill-reputed command and control centres, before intellectual property is leaked.

For midmarket organisations with large volumes of data and limited resources, HP ArcSight Express 4.0 combines security information and event management (SIEM), log management and user activity monitoring in an out of the box solution, including connectors to HP ArcSIght IdentityView and HP RepSM. The solution simplifies the collection, analysis and management of security events quickly and cost-effectively.

Clients can be up and running in minutes, quickly gaining insight into potential security threats by pulling information from hundreds of data sources. The solution also monitors user and application activity for security anomalies, such as suspicious behaviour.

HP Research Identifies Security Risks, Helps Organisations Assess Security Posture

HP released the HP 2012 Cyber Security Risk Report. The annual report provides security intelligence to organisations so that they can best deploy their resources to minimise security risk.

Highlights From The Report Include:

“Organisations need the latest in security research to effectively prevent, detect and combat the growing number of sophisticated threats,” said Damanjit Singh Uberoi, Chief Solutions Architect & Evangelist, South Asia HP Enterprise Security Products. “HP empowers clients to address the most advanced threats by combining access to a global network of security experts and published research with the power of that expertise built directly into our products and services.”