AlienVault OTX now delivers alerts on communications related to known malicious hosts, enabling organisations to detect compromised systems and minimise data exfiltration. It also provides rapid insight via an interactive threat map that charts all of the countries an organisation’s systems are communicating with.
Security professionals can easily upload their raw logs into OTX and quickly and easily run log analysis without installing any new software or hardware. OTX also integrates with AlienVault Unified Security Management™(USM) platform and OSSIM to provide users with threat intelligence about known malicious IPs from outside their network, which is particularly useful in rapid incident response.
“In today’s evolving threat landscape, it has become more of a challenge for organisations, particularly those in the mid-market, to detect where the true threats lie without tapping into a broader and often already-stretched IT budget,” said AlienVault Vice President of Product Strategy, Russ Spitler. “By offering this capability as a free tool, AlienVault helps organisations gain greater visibility into their networks and makes existing IT resources more effective in rapidly detecting and responding to threats.”
Additional new features include:
· Updated Interactive Threat Map: enhanced look and feel of the interactive threat map and additional drill down capabilities providing more advanced threat investigation.
· Integrated Reputation Monitor Alerts: users can now access alerts from within the OTX application.
Since its release, AlienVault OTX has built up a presence of more than 8,000 contributors from 140 countries, and more than 17,000 threat data updates are made on the system every day. The diversity, analysis and quality of OTX make it the industry’s most robust, open crowd-sourced threat intelligence sharing system, with threat data sourced from private partnerships and public sources worldwide and a proven algorithm that helps validate sources and threats.