Centrify and Cloudera Extend Open Data Model for Cybersecurity

Centrify and Cloudera Extend Open
Data Model for Cybersecurity

Growing Community Continues to Meet Enterprise

Demand for Apache Hadoop-Based Cybersecurity Solutions

Singapore, August
1, 2016 — Cloudera, the global
provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management and analytics
platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source technologies, and
Centrify, the leader in securing enterprise identities, today announced that Centrify
has joined the Open Network Insight (ONI) project. ONI is an open source,
Apache 2.0 licensed cybersecurity project that leverages big data and
machine learning to detect advanced threats. ONI provides an open data model
for Network and with the addition of Centrify to the project will be extended
to include identity.  By extending ONI’s open data model into identity,
Centrify is allowing users to centralize identity and account credential data,
integrate it into cybersecurity applications that leverage ONI, and to share
related threat analytics and intelligence among industry peers.

“Centrify’s participation marks a major milestone for ONI,” said Tom
Reilly, chief executive officer of Cloudera. “By adding the ability to
integrate information about user identities alongside of data about network
traffic and endpoints, the project is fulfilling on its promise to support a
broad range of cybersecurity data sources that can be used to identify advanced
threats and cyberattacks.”

Insights into how identities are being used are critical, as hijacked
credentials have led to some of the largest compromises in history.
Furthermore, the 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)[1] states that stolen and misused
credentials continue to play a major role in most data breaches. With Centrify,
ONI will provide on-demand analytics needed to understand how user accounts and
activities are impacting security and compliance across users’ environments.  

“We are excited
to join the ONI community to further expand the underlying open data model to identity-based security,” said
Bill Mann, Chief Product Officer for Centrify. “Our approach to cybersecurity needs a rethink, and ONI is an example
of that.  Community-driven efforts will play a major role in the future of
cybersecurity since this project is leveraging machine learning and big data
analytics in ways that are addressing risk with speed, efficiency and accuracy.

Centrify joins a growing community comprised of Cloudera cybersecurity
partners and customers. Among them are Anomali, Cloudwick, Intel, Jask,
Cybraics, and Webroot. To learn more about the ONI visit: http://open-network-insight.org/

[1] http://www.verizonenterprise.com/verizon-insights-lab/dbir/2016/