Carbon Black Innovations Set Industry Standard for Next-Generation Antivirus With Streaming Ransomware Prevention and Live Response

SINGAPORE (September
12, 2017) – Carbon
Black, the leader in next-generation endpoint security, today
announced the Q3 2017 release of Cb Defense, the company’s next-generation
antivirus (NGAV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution. Powered by
“Streaming Ransomware Prevention” technology, Cb Defense is the market’s first
NGAV plus EDR solution to protect organizations from ransomware by detecting
and preventing against fileless attacks or unknown tactics. The latest version
of Cb Defense also incorporates Carbon Black’s popular “Live Response”
capability from Cb Response, leveraged by 1,700 enterprise customers globally.
With Live Response, enterprises can remediate an attack within minutes and
immediately quarantine an endpoint to limit damage, fix the issue, and restore
service.

“After conducting an
extensive evaluation of anti-malware solutions, Samsung found that only Cb
Defense could stop all the attacks we threw its way,” said Steven Lentz, CSO at
Samsung Research America. “The ransomware threatscape will continue to evolve
and the technology in the latest release of Cb Defense is exactly what
enterprises need to maintain business continuity in the face of today’s biggest
cyber threats.”

The newest release of
Cb Defense uses “Streaming Ransomware Prevention,” expanding on Carbon Black’s
breakthrough “Streaming Prevention” technology. This innovation leverages
event-stream processing, the same technology that revolutionized algorithmic
day-trading, to continuously update risk profiles based on a stream of computer
activity. When multiple, potentially malicious events occur in a cluster, Cb
Defense blocks the attack, whether file-based or fileless. By building upon an
event-stream model, rather than the file-based signature approach used by
ineffective legacy antivirus solutions, Cb Defense is able to:

“Ransomware has
quickly evolved to become one of the most threatening attack methods used by
modern cybercriminals,” said Patrick Morley, Carbon Black’s president and chief
executive officer. “With the Q3 2017 release of Cb Defense, Carbon Black
empowers enterprises to leverage the full power of our cloud scalable
architecture and streaming prevention, equipping security teams with the
ability to detect, prevent and respond to evolving attacks.”

The latest version of
Cb Defense incorporates Carbon Black’s popular “Live Response” capability from
Cb Response. With this functionality, security professionals have a
centralized, high-powered remediation console empowering them to respond to
attacks in progress within minutes, minimizing business impact. Live Response
has become a mission-critical capability for Carbon Black customers and, now as
a part of Cb Defense.

With “Live Response,”
Cb Defense helps organizations take full control during the most critical
moments of an attack. Competing legacy solutions simply inform businesses about
security issues, and often require other systems or people to resolve them.
“Live Response” in Cb Defense benefits organizations by:

“As ransomware attacks
continue to plague Asia, governments and organizations need to up the ante on
their cybersecurity defences to protect themselves from the inevitable,” said
Kane Lightowler, Managing Director, Asia Pacific and Japan, Carbon Black. “The
Q3 2017 release of Cb Defense is a scalable, intelligent and efficient defence
against today’s sophisticated threat landscape and easily deployable for not
only big organizations but also the small-medium enterprises that contribute
significantly to the economies in the region.”

“Carbon Black Cb
Defense was able to block all attacks, from both in-the-wild Ransomware and POC
tool attacks, stopping traditional executables or fileless,”said Sveta
Miladinov, CEO of security research firm MRG-Effitas, which tested the latest
release. “Whether the ransomware tries to encrypt files or the boot sector, Cb
Defense provided exceptional protection.”

Recently, Cb Defense
won an Edison Award for innovation in cybersecurity and was named “Best
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Protection Solution” by SC Magazine Awards Europe 2017.
During a recent test, Cb Defense received a 5-star overall rating from
SC Media.

“Ransomware continues
to be a significant cyber security challenge enterprises face today,” said Jon
Oltsik, senior principal analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.  “With
this new release, Carbon Black can help resource-constrained organizations
address ransomware quickly and effectively.”

Carbon Black is the
leading provider of next-generation endpoint security. Carbon Black’s
Next-Generation Antivirus (NGAV) solution, Cb Defense, leverages breakthrough
prevention technology, “Streaming Prevention,” to instantly see and stop
cyberattacks before they execute. Cb Defense uniquely combines breakthrough
prevention with market-leading detection and response into a single,
lightweight agent delivered through the cloud. With more than 9 million endpoints
under management, Carbon Black has more than 3,000 customers, including 30 of
the Fortune 100. These customers use Carbon Black to replace legacy antivirus,
lock down critical systems, hunt threats, and protect their endpoints from the
most advanced cyberattacks, including non-malware attacks.