Forcepoint fortifies cybersecurity solutions to suit IP, Government organizations

NEW DELHI: Global cybersecurity leader Forcepoint has fortified its cloud security portfolio to empower security teams with new behavior-driven controls that simplify protection of employees, critical business data and intellectual property (IP).

The press release said that new Forcepoint CASB behavior analytics help enterprise and government security teams reduce time to action by focusing on the business impact of highest risk users.

New capabilities now available across Forcepoint CASB, Forcepoint Web Security and Forcepoint Email Security ensure customers around the world can safely embrace, and continue to grow, their business in the cloud.

Forcepoint Web Security and Forcepoint Email Security can now deliver new cloud application controls and Advanced Malware Detection service enabling rapid, secure cloud adoption and management, indicates the statement.

“Approaching security through a human-centric lens helps organizations better understand indicators of normal cyber behavior and quickly identify activity and operations, such as shadow IT, that pose the biggest risk,” said Kris Lamb, vice president and general manager of the Cloud Security business at Forcepoint. “As enterprises and government agencies shift their applications to SaaS and cloud IT models, they require intelligent systems that quickly spot anomalies, assess risk and facilitate rapid resolution to protect users and their data in an increasingly zero perimeter world.”

Forcepoint’s new CASB capabilities that assess the risk posed by file sharing and other cloud applications and protect against the loss of critical business data and IP not stored on a corporate network. Forcepoint CASB now analyzes user behavior and characteristics of the application, such as the data, device and location being accessed. A new single-view User Risk Dashboard reports both employee behavior and, unique to Forcepoint CASB, the potential business impact based on the user’s account permissions within an organization.

The company further said that security teams can now access actionable insights faster with a full understanding of risk at-a-glance; and, when CASB is used with Forcepoint Advanced Malware Detection powered by Lastline, organizations can be assured their data is fully protected from both risky users and malware posing as a user.