Expanded Carbon Black and IBM Partnership Delivers New Technology to Identify and Patch Most Critical Endpoint Vulnerabilities in Seconds

Expanded Carbon Black and IBM Partnership Delivers New Technology
to Identify and Patch Most Critical Endpoint Vulnerabilities in Seconds

IBM Security to Resell Carbon Black

SINGAPORE – October 10, 2016 — Carbon Black, the leader in next-generation endpoint security, today announced
an expansion of its partnership with IBM Security [NYSE: IBM].  The companies have collaborated to
deliver a unique technology, which empowers customers to patch, within seconds,
the most pervasive and critical vulnerabilities affecting an enterprise’s
security. IBM will also deliver Carbon Black directly to customers as part of
the expanded relationship.

According to Gartner’s
September 2016 Report, It’s Time to Align Your Vulnerability Management
Priorities With the Biggest Threats, “organizations are struggling to
figure out the delta between ‘what can I fix’ and ‘what will make the biggest
difference, with the pragmatic reality of the time and resources that I
actually have,’” making vulnerability management one of the biggest problems
plaguing the security industry. A lack of visibility into which endpoints are
being actively exploited across the enterprise often leads to non-directed,
broad-based patching of endpoints. This approach can leave endpoints vulnerable
to the most pressing attack vectors.

IBM and Carbon Black
have designed a new, integrated offering, which correlates Carbon Black’s
endpoint activity data with public Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
databases to deliver a prioritized list of actively exploited vulnerabilities
tailored to each organization. Designed to manage active attack remediation,
the new collaboration takes the guesswork out of which endpoint vulnerabilities
security professionals need to prioritize.

The combination of IBM
Big Fix and Carbon Black empowers security professionals to, within seconds,
identify and patch the endpoint exploits most threatening to their particular
organizations. This process increases enterprise-wide visibility and speeds
response time. The integration is further bolstered by IBM QRadar, which,
together with BigFix, provides threat prioritization of vulnerabilities at the
network level. The most pressing alerts can now be escalated for security
professionals to immediately remediate, delivering the most comprehensive
threat-based patching and remediation solution.

“From top to bottom,
security is in our company’s DNA,” said Carbon Black CEO, Patrick Morley. “Our
products were created by security experts who intimately know how difficult
managing alerts can be. This new, ground-breaking offering from Carbon Black
and IBM leapfrogs other management solutions on the market, which lack a
proactive, continuous approach to capturing critical endpoint data.”

As customers seek to
focus their security-tool portfolio, IBM will offer the integrated BigFix and
Carbon Black solution to its customers, enabling security professionals to:

· 
Find
it: See precisely
which endpoints are being actively exploited enterprise-wide and filter by a
specific vulnerability.

· 
Fix
it: Understand which patches
will have the biggest impact across the organization and then patch, within
seconds, the most actively exploited vulnerabilities.

· 
Secure
it: Stop an attack
dead in its tracks, and prevent future attacks of a similar nature.

With Carbon Black
endpoint data funneled into IBM BigFix, security professionals can act quickly and decisively to patch
devices enterprise-wide within seconds.  

Together, IBM BigFix and
Carbon Black create the only solution on the market that combines continuous
and centrally recorded endpoint data with the ability to enforce policies on
devices enterprise-wide to solve the pervasive patch-management problem
security teams are facing.

“IBM BigFix delivers the
industry’s best ability to detect non-compliant and vulnerable endpoints,” said
James Brennan, Director of Strategy and Offering Management, IBM
Security.  “Beyond detection, IBM BigFix also offers a complete
vulnerability remediation solution as part of its patch compliance
capabilities. The expanded partnership with Carbon Black leverages their
leading ‘Patterns of Attack’ technology, which detects suspicious behaviors on
the endpoint.  We’re now bringing that data together, with a patch/compliance
view, giving complete visibility into customers’ endpoints.”

In addition, IBM and
Carbon Black have finalized new global agreements that will allow customers to
purchase Carbon Black solutions directly from IBM, enabling IBM customers to quickly
take advantage of the new integrated BigFix and Cb Response solution. Joint
customers will experience a simple and streamlined way to adopt both products.