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Carbon Black is recognized for its market-leading application control, incident response, and threat hunting products that serve more than 2,000 organizations globally. By adding Confer’s NGAV product, Carbon Black delivers the industry’s most complete endpoint security platform. Confer’s software solution will be renamed “Cb Defense.”

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.

Cb Defense Redefines Next Gen AV

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.

Carbon Black Endpoint Security Platform

With the acquisition of Confer, customers will have access to a single platform designed to replace ineffective antivirus, lock down critical systems, and arm incident-response teams with the most advanced tools to proactively hunt down threats. The Cb Endpoint Security Platform is the only solution that provides the flexibility and security required to grow and evolve with an organization’s security needs.

The Cb Endpoint Security Platform is designed to:

• Stop the Most Attacks. Using a combination of endpoint data and the Cb Collective Defense Cloud, the Cb Endpoint Security Platform stops more attacks than both traditional AV and competing NGAV products. It blocks both malware and malware-less attacks.
• See Every Threat. The Cb Endpoint Security Platform continuously records all endpoint activity, giving organizations full visibility into how cyber-attacks happen. By capturing and analyzing behaviors, it pinpoints potential exploits and provides complete visibility into each threat.
• Close Every Gap. With complete threat visibility, the Cb Endpoint Security Platform enables organizations to proactively fix security problems in their environment by leveraging a full suite of remediation capabilities.

Cb Collective Defense Cloud

Confer’s cloud-based analytics engine will become part of the “Cb Collective Defense Cloud,” adding significant depth to the Cb Endpoint Security Platform. The Cb Collective Defense Cloud provides an assessment of what’s safe and what’s not, based on advanced-analytic techniques applied to data from millions of endpoints.

The Cb Collective Defense Cloud:

1. Continuously records data from more than seven million endpoints protected by Carbon Black products.
2. Enhances and enriches the data with threat intelligence from dozens of sources including Carbon Black’s Detection eXchange and partner feeds.
3. Applies rigorous analytic techniques including machine learning, artificial intelligence and behavioral analytics to massive datasets of attacks, threats, behaviors and anomalies.
4. Streams context and insight to Carbon Black’s offerings where attacks are blocked at the endpoint.

Continuous interactions between the Cb Collective Defense Cloud and Carbon Black’s offerings strengthen the system’s ability to identify malicious activity and become more resilient over time.

Confer Co-founders Paul Morville and Jeff Kraemer will be joining the Carbon Black product and engineering teams respectively. Confer employees will join the Carbon Black team. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.