Fortscale is another security start-up that believes there’s a lot to learn from existing information by adding tools to do queries. For Israel-based Fortscale, which has an office in New York, the focus is on gaining visibility into what users, including employees and contractors allowed into the network, are typically doing in order to develop profiles. This can help determine if an attacker has hijacked user credentials or indicates an insider threat.“The major black hole is the endpoint, and there’s not enough visibility about the users,” says CEO Idan Tendler, who co-founded Fortscale with Yona Hollander in 2012. The Fortscale Hadoop-based approach is software that works with existing log management and SIEM products. Now being tested with products such as HP ArcSight, RSA enVision, Splunk and IBM’s QRadar SIEM, the Fortscale product is expected to be available around September.
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