CloudCover Era: CC/B1 Zero Trust

Published: August 2, 2022 Author: Stephen Cardot

The notion of Zero Trust practice-as-a-policy — is a security model that inherently never trusts users or data. For a myriad of reasons, Zero Trust in the cybersecurity industry isn’t as cut and dried as the ultimate advance cyber risk model. It happens to be the flavor of the year “method of trust”. In our latest blog, we break down CloudCover’s Zero Trust methodology as an “embedded-security-network-risk-mitigation” solution and why our approach is today’s reinvention of cybersecurity within the “clouded” marketplace.

Important to note, the cloud service market is now the top attack target. It’s not a matter of if you’ll be attacked, but how often! You have to be fully readied, and know what and how to stop an attack before it takes hold and imposes it’s ransom. CloudCover Zero Trust (CC/B1) is designed to stop ransomware attacks before they can take hold.

In this blog, we’ll unpack how CloudCover CC/B1 Platform enables inline Zero Trust and what it means for the future of network level cybersecurity which is crucial for Zero Trust’s success.

CloudCover’s Zero Trust

Zero Trust as a practice is a security policy which never inherently trusts users or data. The CC/B1 verifies the safety of users and packets coming into the network using automation and statistical analysis. CCB1 has been utilizing a Zero Trust system, method and overall policy before the term was even coined.

Our process begins with analyzing and stopping threats to your network. It also applies statistical risk analysis and scoring of network events, and the data uncovered creates dynamic risk-aware baselines for risk transfer. The CC/B1 technology enforces zero trust at the network level by verifying and validating each-every network packet connection regardless of origin or destination.

CC/B1 Zero Trust vs. future of cybersecurity

The CC/B1 platform operates by continuously monitoring the network and responding at the TLS handshake to prevent malware entry by bad actors. The platform is an automated threat-stopping security platform that monitors traffic and drops incoming requests and packets that it deems dangerous. The platform uses behavioral analysis to verify users and flag or stop any packet suspicious behavior. The platform does not accept any packets until they are verified ‘cyber safe’.

The platform scans packets entering and exiting a network utilizing an automated method that determines and risk-mitigates packet traffic in transit. In addition, insurance companies really have no idea how good a company is at protecting its network security or infrastructure. As a result, it’s tough for insurers to know the risks, which in turn makes it tough to be proactive in setting the right-priced premiums, or applying effective cyber insurance coverage that isn’t full of exclusions.

The CC/B1 platform continuously monitors behavior to ensure that users are cyber safer, and that user’s data is not a victim of exfiltration, being misused or hijacked.

Our process of underwriting cyber risk is a transformational leap toward true cybersecurity — or as we prefer, CyberSafety Insurance — as it’s based on actual risk, not a “dartboard underwriting” guess. The X-NDR (extended network detection and response) and SOAR technology (security, orchestration, automation, response) of the CC/B1 is providing your company its own unique risk (underwritten-enabled) score, including its very own actuarial table(s), and the continuous risk assessment and risk monitoring of your company’s network that ensures all responsible parties fully understand their threat landscape.

Cyber insurance and cyber security shouldn’t be two separate capabilities, or alternatives to one another — they should work fused in unison, together. And with our solution, they do.

CloudCover practiced Zero Trust from inception.

At its center, the CloudCover CC/B1 Platform follows the rule “never trust, always verify”. The CC/B1 is a practical, more effective Zero Trust platform — at the network level.

One last note. The cloud is now the top attack target. It’s not a matter of if you’ll be attacked, but how often! You have to be fully readied, and know what and how to stop an attack before it takes hold and imposes it’s ransom.

In our next blog, we’ll summarize further the CC/B1 Zero Trust model and the outlook for the cybersecurity markets and cybersecurity insurance industry going forward. Learn more about CC/B1 by requesting a demo: cloudcover.cc/request-a-demo.

About Stephen Cardot

Veteran IT developer with 28 years’ experience in designing robust, scalable solutions. Patent author of real-time risk scoring and data insurance. Believes sub-second risk control and incremental risk transfer are the future of cyber safety and security.