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Anomalous Behavior Detection attracts Capgemini

For enterprises to take an adaptive approach to abnormal behavior, such as informing management, adjusting policies or reducing or removing access rights

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PARIS: Capgemini , a provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services has announced, with Pivotal, the company at the intersection of big data, PaaS, and agile development, the launch of an offer to help companies address advanced threats to the enterprise.

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It calls it Anomalous Behavior Detection that provides a reactive and predictive approach to help enterprises identify and respond appropriately to both internal and external threats. Using the architecture of a Business Data Lake1 to analyze vast amounts of structured and unstructured information, the offer brings together Capgemini’s big data and analytics capabilities with Pivotal’s data science services and software, they explain.

Companies are now more vulnerable to internal and external risks due to rising data volumes, the added complexity of the cloud, and the increasing amount of information companies share with third parties. Often the greatest threats come from employees operating within their approved authority and security permissions who either have their credentials compromised, or who go “rogue” and start to misuse internal systems, and this can expose companies to data leakage, critical Intellectual Property (IP) and financial breaches, and abuse of company systems.

Traditional signature-based security tools are not able to counter the threat of anomalous behavior from internal and trusted third parties, because they are not geared to detect people operating within their approved business role, as further stated.

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Pivotal and Capgemini’s new offer claims to provide a way to detect and even predict possible fraud, or theft of data and IP. "It goes beyond existing, traditional security tools to provide a behavior-centric approach allowing both “rogue” employees and compromised accounts or devices to be identified quickly. This approach also allows an enterprise to create insight, categorize risk and create alerts so that the enterprise can react swiftly and appropriately." the companies say.

Franck Greverie, Global Head of Cyber Security and Corporate Vice President for the Capgemini Group, said: “Companies are ever more aware that the primary threats are often from within the company systems – be it through social engineering attacks or ‘rogue’ employees – so detecting anomalous behaviors quickly is key. We have already seen a high level of interest in this new offer from multiple customers, particularly in the financial and utilities sectors, wishing to protect their internal data.”

Capgemini and Pivotal are already working together with a number of customers in this field such as financial services, utilities, retailers and manufacturing companies to provide a managed service capability. The launch is an extension of the Pivotal/Capgemini collaboration announced in December 2013, the announcement says.

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