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Instart Logic Announces Helios
April 2017 by Marc Jacob
In ancient mythology, Helios was the Greek god of the sun streaking across the heavens in a chariot shining much-needed light onto a dark and dangerous world. That’s exactly what Instart Logic, the leading company helping brands around the world make their digital initiatives faster, more reliable, and more secure, is doing with today’s announcement of Helios — using artificial intelligence to illuminate and solve today’s most challenging digital security issues.
Web application attacks are on the rise. A 2012 study found the average company’s cost for every minute of downtime during a DDoS attack was $22,000. Helios, part of Instart Logic’s AppShield family of end-to-end security solutions, uses artificial intelligence, interpretable machine learning, and automation to discover subtle web breaches hidden in billions of applications logs that have been nearly impossible for humans to detect using traditional security technologies.
Helios learns from experience, gets better over time, needs no training to get started and provides security experts with fast discovery of anomalies they would not otherwise have found using traditional methods. Most importantly, Helios takes a "no one size fits all" approach, evaluating logs from all incoming site traffic and continuously searching for the “unknown of unknowns.”
In application security, a key challenge is finding anomalies. A traditional system relies on predefined rules to catch attacks. However, previously unknown and subtle attacks cannot be caught by rules. Helios was built expressly to discover previously unknown anomalies and subtle attacks in systems operating at cloud-scale.
The second challenge Helios addresses is the size and scale of today’s log files. Existing security technologies simply cannot keep up with the immense volume of log data. When attacks are found, discovery time can be so long that the attacks can cause great harm by the time they’re discovered. Helios automates and speeds up the attack discovery process by using artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Helios is capable of analyzing billions of log messages in minutes.
The third challenge is that both web application code and attacks change every day, and new vulnerabilities are constantly emerging. Whatever solution an enterprise uses must accommodate constant change and keep security policies up to date. With so much change, there is minimal room for error. So supervised machine learning algorithms that rely on training datasets fail to solve this problem. Helios uses advanced algorithms that are able to discover anomalies without the need for training.
About the Instart Logic Application Services Platform
Instart Logic’s Application Services Platform is the world’s first endpoint-aware application delivery solution. It’s a disruptive way to accelerate and secure web and mobile applications delivering vastly improved performance, security and control. The core technology innovations, driven by 80+ patents, include artificial intelligence, machine learning, application awareness and client-control via a thin JavaScript virtualization layer called the Nanovisor.
Instart Logic’s “Application Services Platform” modules include:
• CDN, a full-featured global content delivery network that enables scale, uptime, and superior user experience through caching, network level optimizations, and support for standards.
• AppSpeed, guarantees at least a 20% improvement in web, mobile web and mobile native app performance by accelerating all code, content, and third-party elements inside an application.
• AppShield, protects revenue by preserving the security and integrity of applications along the entire delivery path, and includes features like next-generation Web Application Firewall, DDoS attack mitigation, and Bot detection/mitigation. The AppShield module includes Ad Integrity, a breakthrough approach for unblocking the ad blockers to regain lost revenue.
• AppFlex, empowers enterprises to move at the speed of business by providing a highly responsive service enabled by a DevOps approach, public APIs, self-service portal and real-time analytics.
