Unpacking CloudCover's "Solution Differentiators" Part One: Our Ethos & Technology

In the first of a five-part blog series, we’ll introduce you to CloudCover’s solution differentiators — starting with our beliefs around the future of cybersecurity and how we’ve designed our X/NDR (extended network detection response) SOAR (security orchestration, automation and response) technology to match them.

As we close out National Cybersecurity Awareness Month — a time when cybersecurity professionals around the world are taking stock of their cybersecurity strategies and working to intentionally inform their organizations about proactive cybersecurity hygiene and measures — we suggest that what’s really needed is for companies to truly Reimagine CyberSecurity.

To that end, we want to introduce you to CloudCover’s “solution differentiators” — a look into how we’re thinking and doing things differently than others in our industry.

In this first of a five-part series, we’ll introduce you to:

• Our ethos around what we believe is the new era of cybersecurity, and
• How we’ve designed our technology to complement this new era.

Our cybersecurity ethos: why the future is risk aware, risk control, and risk transfer

Remember the days when the internet was safe? If you can’t, that’s because the last time internet safety existed was approximately 30 years ago — at its inception.

We believe it can be safe again. However, to ensure we can realize the internet as it was initially conceived, we need to recognize we’re in a new era of cybersecurity. Here are the three core elements we believe this new era entails:

• Risk Awareness: Organizations need to have a continuous, analytical understanding of the fluid risks their network is facing. Risk is not static, it ebbs and flows, and getting to know this movement is essential for building actuarial models that can update dynamically on a cybersecurity platform.
• Risk Control: A cybersecurity platform needs to be able to identify an attack and block it automatically, at the header or handshake, before an attack can spread through the network.
• Risk Transfer: After the risk gets controlled, it should be shifted from a company to a cybersecurity insurance provider through a contract — just like an insurance policy specifies a risk of loss that’s passed from the policyholder to the insurer. A company’s data at risk is underwritten at its dynamic value at the packet level, with each policy event recorded for audit and claims purposes.

We’ll go into more detail on each of these three components in future blogs, so stay tuned.

Our technology: using automation, not people, to stop threats

Our CyberSafety CC/B1 Platform™ is a joining of these three components — a solution for cyber insecurity rather than cybersecurity. It’s a marriage of automated technology combined with cybersecurity insurance to holistically protect your network, your devices, and your data.

In most cybersecurity strategies, there’s still a major dependence on “human tuning.” This is a vulnerability — highly skilled cybersecurity experts are already in short supply, which means that security operation centers (SOCs) don’t have time to concentrate on stopping threats — they can only hunt them.

Any strategy that requires human interaction or manual intervention is not the way forward. Think of cybersecurity as an evolution — from reactive tools, to managed detection, to “proactive” programs that still depend on human interaction to address issues as they arise. Much of the industry sits in that proactive-but-manual middle of the road.

CloudCover designed for the far end of that evolution — automated operation. Our CC/B1 Platform is an X/NDR, SOAR platform that detects and mitigates attacks automatically, repels them by inspecting the packet for malicious payload before it’s allowed to pass into your network, and records the information from those threats so the platform’s statistical scoring is refined every time it encounters suspicious network activity. We’re also network-centric — we protect the network and its security issues as well as the data in transit.

In the second part of this series, we’ll zero in on risk awareness and how the CC/B1 Platform is able to orchestrate risk into a single view — mitigating attacks automatically.

Can’t wait for the next blog in this series? Head to our platform page to see why the CC/B1 Platform is the right cyber-safer step for your organization.