Carbon Black, developer of next-generation endpoint security products, has acquired Confer, a next-generation antivirus (NGAV) company. Confer’s software solution will be renamed “Cb Defense.”
“With the acquisition of Confer, organizations of every size can now address their endpoint- security requirements through a single platform,” said Patrick Morley, chief executive officer of Carbon Black. “This extension of the Carbon Black platform is a significant step forward in our vision to create a world safe from cyber-attacks.”
Today’s cyber security war is waged at the endpoint. Incumbent AV providers regularly miss critical malware threats, as noted by Gartner in its 2016 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms: “44% of reference customers for EPP solutions have been successfully compromised.”
In the wake of traditional AV proving to be ineffective, emerging endpoint players have entered the market. However, these players offer incomplete, point solutions that miss entire classes of cyber-attacks. These omissions create a false sense of security and leave enterprises vulnerable.
“The emerging next generation endpoint security market is about more than prevention. Security vendors who offer a comprehensive security platform comprised of prevention, detection and response capabilities will lead the transition from prior generation solutions,” said Doug Cahill, senior analyst at ESG. “With the addition of Confer, Carbon Black is offering such a next-gen platform to address the ever evolving threat landscape.”
Cb Defense Redefines Next Gen AV
“NGAV solutions need to take a far more innovative approach in stopping attacks and be much more effective than legacy AV” said Mark Quinlivan, co-founder and chief executive officer at Confer. “We built Confer to provide a sophisticated, lightweight yet simple solution that includes groundbreaking prevention, detection and incident response.”
Cb Defense uniquely combines behavioral-based prevention techniques with integrated detection and response capabilities to stop cyber-attacks. Its cloud-based, deep-analytics approach blocks both malware and increasingly common malware-less attacks that exploit memory and scripting languages such as PowerShell. Once malware is blocked, Cb Defense gives organizations visibility into how the attack happened, which enables them to proactively fix security problems.
Cb Defense uses a lightweight sensor that installs in less than a minute and consumes less than one percent of the CPU, disk and network. Once installed, Cb Defense can be completely managed from the cloud through an easy-to-use, web-based interface.