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Symantec Targeted Attack Analytics Enables Customers to Uncover the Most Sophisticated and Dangerous Cyber Attacks

Apr 15, 2018 - Symantec, the world's leading cyber security company, announced today that the powerful threat detection technology used by its own world-class research teams to uncover some of the most notable cyber-attacks in history are now available to its Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) customers. The Symantec Targeted Attack Analytics (TAA) technology enables ATP customers to leverage advanced machine learning to automate the discovery of targeted attacks – the most dangerous intrusions in corporate networks.

Targeted attacks represent one of the most dangerous threats to enterprise security today. Yet they are often hidden from view under a mountain of alerts generated by security systems, giving attackers time to gain access to systems and seize valuable data. TAA removes this distraction by identifying truly targeted activity and prioritizing it in the form of a highly reliable incident report for the security team.

TAA is the result of an internal joint-effort between Symantec's Attack Investigation Team, responsible for uncovering Stuxnet , Regin , Lazarus as well as links to SWIFT and WannaCry attacks among others, and a team of Symantec's top security data scientists on the leading edge of machine learning research. Unlike traditional solutions, TAA takes the process, knowledge and capabilities of the world's leading security experts and turns it into artificial intelligence, providing companies with elite “virtual analysts,” to allow security experts to devote their limited time and resources to the most critical attacks, instead of spending time sifting through false positives.

“Symantec's team of cyber analysts has a long history of uncovering the world's most high-profile cyber-attacks and now their deep understanding of how these attacks unfold can be put to use by our customers without the need to employ a team of researchers,” said Greg Clark, Symantec CEO. “Targeted Attack Analytics uses advanced analytics and machine learning to help shorten the time to discovery on the most targeted and dangerous attacks and to help keep customers and their data safe.”

The TAA technology implements machine learning to analyze a broad range of data, including system and network telemetry from Symantec's global customer base which forms one of the largest threat data lakes in the world. Symantec's cloud-based approach to this technology also enables the frequent re-training and updating of analytics to adapt to new attack methods without the need for product updates. This new approach provides ATP customers with automated targeted threat detection, identifying sophisticated attacks where other solutions may fail.

TAA is now available as part of Symantec's Integrated Cyber Defense Platform for Symantec Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) customers.

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