FEATURE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Furthermore, an overstretched workforce can’t
afford to waste time on unimportant issues,
that’s why companies require surveillance
systems that identify threats with precision,
minimising false alarms. In a situation
where only a limited number of security
staff are allowed at the premises, filtering
out unnecessary alerts means resources
are optimised and businesses safeguarded,
without putting employees at risk.
As security threats change and businesses
adjust to a new norm, video surveillance must
evolve accordingly – and what better way to
power this evolution than with a disruptive
technology like AI? If businesses look beyond
the flashy facade, real advantage can be
obtained by enhancing video management
systems with AI elements, and now – with
the world facing an unprecedented crisis and
companies battling new challenges – is the
time to take the leap.
and frequent deployments of rules-based
detection systems designed around
well-known attack patterns, cybersecurity
analysts also need to detect previously
unknown threats, detect attacks more
quickly and save time in conducting
investigation analysis once a system has
been compromised.
Thales has developed Cybels Analytics,
a comprehensive and advanced attack
detection solution, to meet these needs.
The innovative platform combines realtime
threat detection based on analysis of
(network data, end-point analysis, OT logging,
etc.), helping to identify attack patterns and
discover previously unknown threats.
These algorithms, based on the principles of
Thales TruE AI, can be tailored to the specific
needs of each business sector of activity by
customers themselves via an easy-to-use
graphical interface.
Cybels Analytics can be integrated with
an on-premise Security Operations Centre
(SOC) or provided as a service in the cloud,
enabling all the user’s detection systems
WHAT BETTER WAY TO POWER THIS
EVOLUTION THAN WITH A DISRUPTIVE
TECHNOLOGY LIKE AI?
Thales unveils AI platform
Thales, a service provider for transportation
and security markets, appears to be taking the
leap by unveiling its new AI-based platform to
detect the most complex cyberattacks.
Thales’ new Cybels Analytics platform
combines several approaches to attack
detection and forensics in a single tool for
real-time detection and hunting of the most
complex cyberattacks, including previously
unknown threats, thanks to AI algorithms
applying the principles of Thales True AI.
At the 2020 edition of the International
Cybersecurity Forum (FIC) at the start of
the year, Thales successfully unveiled Cybels
Analytics, an innovative cybersecurity
platform relying on advanced AI and Big
Data analytics technologies.
The platform provides faster, sharper, more
exhaustive detection of the most complex
attacks in real time or proactively in differed
time (hunting). It meets the needs of the
most demanding customers, operating as
a single, simple platform that even allows
individual users to adapt the AI algorithms to
the specific operational context of each sector.
The cyberattack techniques that have
emerged in recent years are increasingly
complex and hard to detect. Despite growing
awareness on the part of organisations,
Laurent Maury, Vice President, Cybersecurity
and Critical Information Systems, Thales
existing threats (Cyberthreat Intelligence)
and proactive search for advanced and
unprecedented cyberattacks (‘cold’
investigation or hunting), thanks to AI and
graphic visualisation modules.
These capabilities significantly reduce the
time taken to detect advanced persistent
threats, from three months on average to
just a few days, according to test results.
Cybels Analytics uses Machine Learning
algorithms developed by Thales to detect
abnormal situations based on huge volumes
of heterogeneous data from multiple sources
(SIEM, EDR, NIDS, etc.) to work together and
complement one another.
The platform is an important addition to
Thales’s cybersecurity offering, rounding
out the range of managed services provided
through its SOC network and supporting
the Cybels Sensor trusted probe, which is
accredited by France’s National Agency for
Information System Security (ANSSI).
While it often takes weeks to build a
complete picture of an organisation’s
information system using standard
investigation products, Cybels Analytics
shortens this process to just a few hours.
Laurent Maury, Vice President, Cybersecurity
and Critical Information Systems, Thales,
said: “We developed Cybels Analytics to
help cybersecurity analysts overcome
the challenges they face on a daily basis:
growing data volumes, long detection
times and investigation procedures and
the difficult task of qualifying previously
unknown situations.
“Cybels Analytics is a trusted solution that
delivers more efficient results, more simply
and in a significantly shorter timeframe so
that users can focus on value-added tasks in
an area where talent is scarce and needs are
constantly rising.” •
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