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Advanced Persistent Threat(APT) Protection - Market
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An Analysis of the Market for
APT Protection Solutions
Revealing Top Players, Trail Blazers,
Specialists and Mature Players.
March 2020

Radicati Market QuadrantSM is copyrighted March 2020 by The Radicati Group, Inc. This
report has been licensed for distribution. Only licensee may post/distribute. Vendors andproducts depicted in Radicati Market QuadrantsSM should not be considered an endorsement,
but rather a measure of The Radicati Group’s opinion, based on product reviews, primaryresearch studies, vendor interviews, historical data, and other metrics. The Radicati Groupintends its Market Quadrants to be one of many information sources that readers use to form
opinions and make decisions. Radicati Market QuadrantsSM are time sensitive, designed to
depict the landscape of a particular market at a given point in time. The Radicati Group
disclaims all warranties as to the accuracy or completeness of such information. The Radicati
Group shall have no liability for errors, omissions, or inadequacies in the information
contained herein or for interpretations thereof.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
RADICATI MARKET QUADRANTS EXPLAINED .............................................................................. 3
MARKET SEGMENTATION – ADVANCED PERSISTENT THREAT (APT) PROTECTION ..................... 5
EVALUATION CRITERIA ............................................................................................................... 7
MARKET QUADRANT – APT PROTECTION ................................................................................. 10
KEY MARKET QUADRANT HIGHLIGHTS .................................................................................... 11
APT PROTECTION - VENDOR ANALYSIS .................................................................................... 11
TOP PLAYERS .......................................................................................................................... 11
TRAIL BLAZERS ....................................................................................................................... 27
SPECIALISTS ............................................................................................................................ 30
MATURE PLAYERS ................................................................................................................... 47===============================================================
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RADICATI MARKET QUADRANTS EXPLAINEDRadicati Market Quadrants are designed to illustrate how individual vendors fit within specifictechnology markets at any given point in time. All Radicati Market Quadrants are composed offour sections, as shown in the example quadrant (Figure 1).
1. Top Players – These are the current market leaders with products that offer, bothbreadth and depth of functionality, as well as posses a solid vision for the future. Top
Players shape the market with their technology and strategic vision. Vendors don’t
become Top Players overnight. Most of the companies in this quadrant were firstSpecialists or Trail Blazers (some were both). As companies reach this stage, they mustfight complacency and continue to innovate.
2. Trail Blazers – These vendors offer advanced, best of breed technology, in some areas of
their solutions, but don’t necessarily have all the features and functionality that would
position them as Top Players. Trail Blazers, however, have the potential for “disrupting”
the market with new technology or new delivery models. In time, these vendors are most
likely to grow into Top Players.
3. Specialists – This group is made up of two types of companies:
a. Emerging players that are new to the industry and still have to develop some
aspects of their solutions. These companies are still developing their strategy andtechnology.
b. Established vendors that offer very good solutions for their customer base, andhave a loyal customer base that is totally satisfied with the functionality they are
deploying.
4. Mature Players – These vendors are large, established vendors that may offer strong
features and functionality, but have slowed down innovation and are no longer
considered “movers and shakers” in this market as they once were.
a. In some cases, this is by design. If a vendor has made a strategic decision to movein a new direction, they may choose to slow development on existing products.

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b. In other cases, a vendor may simply have become complacent and be outdeveloped by hungrier, more innovative Trail Blazers or Top Players.
c. Companies in this stage will either find new life, reviving their R&D efforts andmove back into the Top Players segment, or else they slowly fade away as legacy
technology.
Figure 1, below, shows a sample Radicati Market Quadrant. As a vendor continues to develop its
product solutions adding features and functionality, it will move vertically along the “y”
functionality axis.
The horizontal “x” strategic vision axis reflects a vendor’s understanding of the market and theirstrategic direction plans. It is common for vendors to move in the quadrant, as their products
evolve and market needs change.

High

Radicati Market QuadrantSM
Mature Players

Top Players•
Company L

Functionality•
Company Z•
Company Y•
Company J•
Company H

Low•

Company D••• Company B
Company C
Company A

Specialists
Low•
Company E••
Company F
Company G

Trail Blazers

Strategic VisionHigh

Figure 1: Sample Radicati Market Quadrant

INCLUSION CRITERIA
We include vendors based on the number of customer inquiries we receive throughout the year.
We normally try to cap the number of vendors we include to about 10-12 vendors. Sometimes,
however, in highly crowded markets we need to include a larger number of vendors.

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MARKET SEGMENTATION – ADVANCED PERSISTENT THREAT (APT) PROTECTION
This edition of Radicati Market QuadrantsSM covers the “Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
Protection” segment of the Security Market, which is defined as follows:•

Advanced Persistent Threat Protection – are a set of integrated solutions for thedetection, prevention and possible remediation of zero-day threats and persistentmalicious attacks. APT solutions may include but are not limited to: sandboxing, EDR,
CASB, reputation networks, threat intelligence management and reporting, forensic
analysis and more. Some of the leading players in this market are Cisco, ESET, FireEye,
Forcepoint, Fortinet, Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Sophos,
Symantec, and VMware Carbon Black.

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This report only looks at vendor APT protection solutions aimed at the needs of enterprisebusinesses. It does not include solutions that target primarily service providers (i.e. carriers,
ISPs, etc.).

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APT protection solutions can be deployed in multiple form factors, including software,
appliances (physical or virtual), private or public cloud, and hybrid models. Virtualizationand hybrid solutions are increasingly available through most APT security vendors.

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APT solutions are seeing rapid adoption across organization of all business sizes and industry
segments, as all organizations are increasingly concerned about zero-day threats and highly
targeted malicious attacks.

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The worldwide revenue for APT Protection solutions is expected to grow from nearly $5.2
billion in 2020, to over $10.5 billion by 2024.

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APT Protection - Revenue Forecast, 2020-2024$12,000$10,598$10,000$8,831$7,359$8,000$6,184$6,000$5,197$4,000$2,000
$0
2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Figure 2: APT Protection Market Revenue Forecast, 2020 – 2024

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EVALUATION CRITERIA
Vendors are positioned in the quadrant according to two criteria: Functionality and Strategic
Vision.
Functionality is assessed based on the breadth and depth of features of each vendor’s solution.
All features and functionality do not necessarily have to be the vendor’s own originaltechnology, but they should be integrated and available for deployment when the solution ispurchased.
Strategic Vision refers to the vendor’s strategic direction, which comprises: a thoroughunderstanding of customer needs, ability to deliver through attractive pricing and channel
models, solid customer support, and strong on-going innovation.
Vendors in the APT Protection space are evaluated according to the following key features andcapabilities:•

Deployment Options – availability of the solution in different form factors, such as onpremises solutions, cloud-based services, hybrid, appliances and/or virtual appliances.

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Platform Support – support for threat protection across a variety of platforms including:Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.

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Malware detection – usually based on behavior analysis, reputation filtering, advanced
heuristics, and more.

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Firewall & URL – filtering for attack behavior analysis.

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Web and Email Security – serve to block malware that originates from Web browsing or
emails with malicious intent.

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SSL scanning – traffic over an SSL connection is also commonly monitored to enforce
corporate policies.

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Encrypted traffic analysis – provides monitoring of behavior of encrypted traffic to detect
potential attacks.

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Forensics and Analysis of zero-day and advanced threats – provide heuristics and behavior
analysis to detect advanced and zero-day attacks.

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Sandboxing and Quarantining – offer detection and isolation of potential threats.

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Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) – is the ability to continuously monitor endpoints
and network events, in order to detect internal or external attacks and enable rapid response.
EDR systems feed information into a centralized database where it can be further analyzed
and combined with advanced threat intelligence feeds for a full understanding of emerging
threats. Some EDR systems also integrate with sandboxing technologies for real-time threat
emulation. Most EDR systems integrate with forensic solutions for deeper attack analysis.

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Directory Integration – integration with Active Directory or LDAP, to help manage andenforce user policies.

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Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) – are on-premises or cloud-based solutions that sit
between users and cloud applications to monitor all cloud activity and enforce security
policies. CASB solutions can monitor user activity, enforce security policies and detecthazardous behavior, thus extending an organization’s security policies to cloud services.

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Data Loss Prevention (DLP) – allows organizations to define policies to prevent loss of
sensitive electronic information.

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Mobile Device Protection – the inclusion of Mobile Device Management (MDM) or
Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) features to help protect mobile endpoints.

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Administration – easy, single pane of glass management across all users and network
resources.

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Real-time updates – to rapidly block, quarantine and defend against newly identified threats
or attacks across all network resources.

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Environment threat analysis – to detect existing threat exposure and potential threat sources.

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Remediation – refers to the ability to contain incidents, automatically remove malware, andrestore endpoints and all affected resources to a pre-incident working state, as well as the

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ability to issue software updates. Many vendors define remediation as just blocking and/or
quarantining threats without re-imaging of compromised devices. While this is an importantfirst step, it is not sufficient and remediation should also include re-imaging or restoring all
devices to their pre-compromised state, or at least the provision of workflows and integration
with tools and mechanisms to achieve that.
In addition, for all vendors we consider the following aspects:•

Pricing – what is the pricing model for their solution, is it easy to understand and allows
customers to budget properly for the solution, as well as is it in line with the level offunctionality being offered, and does it represent a “good value”.

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Customer Support – is customer support adequate and in line with customer needs andresponse requirements.

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Professional Services – does the vendor provide the right level of professional services forplanning, design and deployment, either through their own internal teams, or throughpartners.

Note: On occasion, we may place a vendor in the Top Player or Trail Blazer category even if
they are missing one or more features listed above, if we feel that some other aspect(s) of theirsolution is particularly unique and innovative.

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MARKET QUADRANT – APT PROTECTION

Radicati Market QuadrantSM
High

Mature Players

Top Players
Symantec •Cisco •

McAfee •Kaspersky •Functionality

ESET •

Fortinet •Sophos •Forcepoint •FireEye •Carbon Black •Microsoft •Palo Alto Networks •Low

Specialists
Low

Trail Blazers

Strategic VisionHigh

Figure 3: APT Protection Market Quadrant, 2020**

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been licensed for distribution. Only licensee may post/distribute. Vendors and products depicted in
Radicati Market QuadrantsSM should not be considered an endorsement, but rather a measure of The
Radicati Group’s opinion, based on product reviews, primary research studies, vendor interviews,
historical data, and other metrics. The Radicati Group intends its Market Quadrants to be one ofmany information sources that readers use to form opinions and make decisions. Radicati Market
QuadrantsSM are time sensitive, designed to depict the landscape of a particular market at a given
point in time. The Radicati Group disclaims all warranties as to the accuracy or completeness of suchinformation. The Radicati Group shall have no liability for errors, omissions, or inadequacies in theinformation contained herein or for interpretations thereof.
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KEY MARKET QUADRANT HIGHLIGHTS•The Top Players in the market are Symantec, Cisco, Kaspersky, and ESET.

•The Trail Blazers quadrant includes Sophos.

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The Specialists quadrant includes Fortinet, Forcepoint, FireEye, VMware Carbon Black,
Microsoft, and Palo Alto Networks.

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The Mature Players quadrant includes McAfee.

APT PROTECTION - VENDOR ANALYSISTOP PLAYERSSYMANTEC, A DIVISION OF BROADCOM
1320 Ridder Park Drive
San Jose, CA 95131
www.symantec.com
Founded in 1982, Symantec has grown to be one of the largest providers of enterprise security
technology. Symantec’s security solutions are powered by its Global Intelligence Network, which
offers real-time threat intelligence. Symantec is a division of Broadcom, a publicly traded company.
SOLUTIONS
Symantec provides on-premises, hybrid and cloud-based solutions for advanced threat protection tosafeguard against advanced persistent threats and targeted attacks, detect both known and unknown
malware, and automate the containment and resolution of incidents. Symantec’s security portfolio
comprises the following components:•

Symantec Endpoint Security Complete (SESC) – is Symantec’s new endpoint security
offering which provides full endpoint protection, including anti-malware, formerly delivered

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by Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP), plus Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
capabilities in a single package. SESC exposes advanced attacks through machine learningand global threat intelligence. It utilizes advanced attack detections at the endpoint andcloud-based analytics to detect targeted attacks such as breach detection, command andcontrol beaconing, lateral movement and suspicious power shell executions. It allows
incident responders to quickly search, identify and contain all impacted endpoints while
investigating threats using a choice of on-premises and cloud-based sandboxing. In addition,
continuous and on-demand recording of system activity supports full endpoint visibility.
SESC also includes application control, breach detection, application isolation, breachassessment, and Active Directory defense.
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Symantec Email Threat Detection and Response (TDR) – protects against email-borne targeted
attacks and advanced threats, such as spear-phishing. It leverages a cloud-based sandbox anddetonation capability and Symantec Email Security.cloud to expose threat data from malicious
emails. Email TDR sends events to Symantec EDR for correlation with endpoint and network
events.

•Symantec Critical Attack Discovery and Intelligence (CADI) – utilizes rich telemetry,cyber-attack experience, and machine learning (ML) to hunt for and discover high-fidelity
incidents, alerting customers and identifying the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs)
used by adversaries. This capability is delivered as an integral part of SESC.

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Symantec Threat Hunting Center (STHC) – automates threat hunting and uses anintelligence-driven workflow that associates indicators with threat models (actors, threatbulletins, campaigns, TTP, and vulnerabilities) using integrated threat intelligence from open
source, commercial, and Symantec intelligence and matches observables with indicators.
STHC is able to apply millions of indicators to billions of events and perform retrospective
analysis in seconds. It connects to SIEM solutions (e.g. Splunk, Qradar, ArcSight, andothers) to help automate threat hunting.

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Symantec ProxySG appliance, Secure Web Gateway Virtual Appliance, or Cloud delivered Web
Security Service – are solutions that serve to block known threats, malicious sources, risky sites,
unknown content categories, and malware delivery networks at the gateway in real-time.
Symantec Content Analysis integrates with the ProxySG appliance to orchestrate malware
scanning and application blacklisting, while Symantec SSL Visibility provides additional
visibility into SSL/TLS encrypted threats across network security appliances, including third-

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party tools. Symantec Web Isolation also integrates with ProxySG Appliances and Cloud Service
to protect end-users from zero day, unknown and risky sites by executing code, and potential
malware, from websites remotely.
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Symantec Content Analysis – analyzes and mitigates unknown content by automaticallyinspecting files from ProxySG, Symantec Messaging Gateway, Symantec Endpoint Protection orother sources using multiple layers of inspection technology (reputation, dual anti-malware
engines, static code analysis, advanced machine learning, and more). It then brokers suspicious
content to the Symantec sandbox or other sandboxes. Content Analysis is available as an onpremises, hybrid or cloud-hosted solution. Intelligence is shared through the Symantec Global
Intelligence Network, providing enhanced protection across the entire security infrastructure.

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Symantec Web Isolation – executes web sessions away from endpoints, sending only safe
rendering of information to users’ browsers thereby preventing any website-delivered, zero-day
malware from reaching devices. When combined with Secure Web Gateways, policies allow
isolating traffic from uncategorized sites or URLs with suspicious or unsafe risk profiles. Web
Isolation also isolates links in email to prevent phishing threats and credential attacks.

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Symantec Security Analytics – utilizes high-speed full-packet capture, indexing, deep packet
inspection (DPI) and anomaly detection to enable incident response and eradicate threats that may
have penetrated the network, even in Industrial Control or SCADA environments. It can be
deployed as an appliance, virtual appliance or in the cloud, providing full visibility and forensics
for cloud workloads. It can also examine encrypted traffic when coupled with the Symantec SSL
Visibility solution. Intelligence is used to investigate and remediate the full scope of the attack.
Integrations with EDR solutions, including Symantec EDR provide network to endpoint visibility
and response. Intelligence is shared across the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to automate
detection and protection against newly identified threats, for all Symantec customers.

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Symantec Global Intelligence Network (GIN) – provides a centralized, cloud-based, threat
indicator repository and analysis platform. It enables the discovery, analysis, and granularclassification and risk-level rating of threats from multiple vectors (e.g. endpoint, network, web,email, application, IoT, and others) and proactively protects other vectors of ingress without theneed to re-evaluate the threat. GIN distributes critical threat indicators derived from a
combination of human and AI (artificial intelligence) research processes, including file hashes,
URLs, IP addresses, and application fingerprints.

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STRENGTHS•

Symantec offers on-premises, cloud, and hybrid options across most of its solutions, which
deliver an integrated product portfolio that defends against threats across all vectors,
including endpoint, network, web, email, mobile, cloud applications, and more.

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Symantec uses a wide array of technologies to provide multi-layered protection, including
heuristics scanning, file and URL reputation and behavioral analysis, dynamic code analysis,
blacklists, machine learning, exploit prevention, web isolation, mobile protection, CASB andapplication control. Symantec also utilizes static code analysis, customized sandboxing andpayload detonation technologies to uncover zero-day threats.

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Symantec offers its own DLP solution that integrates with endpoints, gateways, and cloud
applications to prevent data leaks and help achieve industry and regulatory compliance. The
acquisition of Bay Dynamics should strengthen Symantec’s DLP solution with the additionof UEBA.

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Following Broadcom’s acquisition of Symantec, CA’s Identity and Access Management andPrivileged Access Management solutions have been merged into Broadcom’s Symantec
Enterprise Division. This gives customers the opportunity to include identity protection andmanagement as part of their purchase of the Symantec security portfolio. Integration of
Identity Security into the Symantec Integrated Cyber Defense Platform (ICDx) also is on theroadmap.

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Symantec Security Analytics, coupled with Symantec SSLV Visibility solution, delivers
enriched packet capture for network security visibility, advanced network forensics, anomaly
detection and real-time content inspection, even in encrypted traffic.

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Symantec delivers dedicated mobile device protection and analyzes mobile device traffic todetect mobile-based APTs, even when users are off the corporate network. The Symantec
sandbox includes support for Android files.

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Symantec EDR provides a single pane of glass across all its modules, providing real-time
visibility into attacks, as well as the ability to remediate threats across endpoints.

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WEAKNESSES● Symantec solutions are typically a good fit for larger enterprises with complex needs and an
experienced security team. However, some of Symantec’s cloud solutions offer streamlined
protection for smaller customers.
● Symantec SECS supports workflows for patch management and remediation, however, it
does not currently integrate with Symantec’s IMTS (Altiris) product, which is a missed
opportunity. The vendor has this on its roadmap.
● Symantec is still working to add UEBA capabilities (from its Bay Dynamics acquisition) to
its DLP solution.
● Symantec’s recent acquisition by Broadcom has caused it to lose some mindshare amongcustomers. However, the company is addressing this through a number of product and sales
channel enhancements.

CISCO
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose, CA 95134
www.cisco.com
Cisco is a leading vendor of Internet communication and security technology. Cisco has invested
in a number of acquisitions, including Duo, OpenDNS, Cloudlock, Sourcefire, Cognitive andThreatGrid. Cisco’s Security Solutions are powered by the Cisco Talos Security Intelligence andResearch Group (Talos), made up of leading threat researchers. Cisco is publicly traded.
SOLUTIONS
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) is a cloud-based anti-malware solution that
includes AMP for Endpoints and integrations to an AMP Ecosystem consisting of
network/gateway security devices and other cloud-based security solutions. It works using acollective security intelligence cloud to detect, contain, and remediate advanced threats. Cisco
AMP for Endpoints agents extend anti-malware capabilities with a protection lattice of nextgeneration endpoint security capabilities which can be deployed to protect Windows, Macs,
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Linux, mobile devices and virtual systems. AMP uses global threat intelligence from Talos and
AMP Threat Grid to prevent breaches before they occur. It also uses a telemetry model to takeadvantage of big data, continuous analysis, and advanced analytics.
AMP for Endpoints delivers the following functionality:
o Prevention – AMP for Endpoints combines Global Threat Intelligence, NGAV malware
blocking, file sandboxing and offers proactive protection by closing attack pathways before
they can be exploited. An exploit prevention engine detects and blocks file-less exploitation
techniques that are commonly used to exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities in common
applications. Additional capabilities include system process and malicious activity
protection, behavior based detection, and protection against ransomware. Using Cloud-based
Collective Security Intelligence, AMP’s global outbreak control capability ensures thatprevention enforced on a malicious file is automatically enforced on the other policy
enforcement points in the AMP Ecosystem.
o Detection – AMP for Endpoints continually monitors all activity on endpoints to identify
malicious behavior, and detect indicators of compromise. Once a file lands on the endpoint,
AMP for Endpoints continues to monitor and record all file activity. In addition, AMP
detection gives visibility into what command line arguments are used to launch executables
to determine if legitimate applications, including Window utilities, are being used formalicious purposes. If malicious behavior is detected, AMP can automatically block the fileacross all endpoints and show the security team the entire recorded history of the file’s
behavior. AMP for Endpoints delivers agentless detection, which serves to detect
compromise even when a host does not have an agent installed. Using Cisco’s Cognitive
Intelligence technology, AMP for Endpoints offers agentless detection when deployed
alongside compatible web proxies (e.g. Cisco WSA, Symantec ProxySG, or other third
parties). It helps uncover file-less or memory-only malware, web browser only infections,and stop malware before it compromises the OS-level.
o Response – AMP for Endpoints provides a suite of response capabilities to quickly containand eliminate threats across all endpoints before damage is done. AMP for Endpoints offers
surgical, automated remediation where once a threat is uncovered it is automatically
remediated across all endpoints and other policy enforcement points in the AMP Ecosystem
without the need to wait for a content update. The Threat Response capability aggregatessecurity telemetry across the AMP Ecosystem architecture: endpoints, network, web, email
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APT Protection - Market Quadrant 2020and DNS to provide threat context enrichment for proactive threat hunting, incident
investigation and response. Endpoint Isolation capability further allows an incident
investigator/analyst to isolate the compromised host from network access while retaining acustomer configurable list of whitelisted systems, alongside the AMP console, for access totriage or remediate the host.
o Advanced Search – AMP provides Threat Hunters, SOC Analysts and Incident Responders
efficient information about the endpoints they manage. Security personnel have the ability to
run complex queries on any or all endpoints for threat indicators. Advanced search provides
deep visibility into what happened on any endpoint at any given time by taking a snapshot of
its current state. For ease of use, an endpoint forensic snapshot and/or a catalog of advanced
endpoint search queries is mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
o File Sandboxing – Threat Grid console and API access allows security teams to perform
in-depth static and advanced dynamic file analysis in order to identify malware quickly ina safe and secure environment. Enhanced capabilities provide Cisco curated playbooks
for sandbox runtime and a glove book feature that allows security analysts to interact
with the malware in the sandbox during detonation.
o Zero Trust Security – AMP integrates with Cisco’s DUO to deliver risk-based identity andaccess. AMP for Endpoints can alert DUO of device compromise. DUO can thenautomatically block the compromised device from being used for multi-factor authentication.
o Malware protection – is provided through a combination of file reputation, cloud-based
sandboxing, and intelligence driven detection. Cisco’s Talos Security Intelligence provides
the ability to identify and filter/block traffic from known malicious IP addresses and sites,
including spam, phishing, Bot, open relay, open proxy, Tor Exit Node, Global Blacklist IPs
and Malware sites in addition to domains and categorized, risk-ranked URLs.
o Email and Web security – all file disposition and dynamic analysis information is sharedacross AMP Ecosystem products via collective intelligence. If a file is determined to bemalicious via AMP for Email or Web Security the information is immediately shared acrossall AMP-enabled platforms, both for future detection of the malicious file and retrospectively
if the file was encountered by any other AMP platforms.

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o Firewall and NGIPS – AMP for Endpoints integrates with AMP for Networks. All detection
information is sent to the Firepower management platform and can be used to correlate
against other network threat activity for automatic global outbreak control and trajectory.
o Patch Assessment – AMP for Endpoints uses a feature called Vulnerable Software that
identifies if installed software across all endpoints has an installed version with exploitable
vulnerability.
o Reporting – AMP for Endpoints offers static, dynamic, and historical reports. These include
reporting on high-risk computers, overall security health, threat root cause activity tracking,identification of various APTs, and mobile-specific root cause analysis.
o Management – AMP for Endpoints comes with its own management console and can also
integrate with the Firepower console for tighter management across all deployed Cisco
security solutions. Cisco added an Inbox to provide users a workflow for incident responsemanagement and redesigned the dashboard to make it easier for users to access informationand options from a central place in the portal.
The Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client offers VPN access through Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL), endpoint posture enforcement and integration with Cisco Web Security, Umbrella
DNS roaming protection and Splunk for comprehensive secure mobility. AnyConnect assists
with the deployment of AMP for Endpoints and expands endpoint threat protection to VPNenabled endpoints, as well as other Cisco AnyConnect services. The Web Security and Umbrella
modules prevent the endpoint from accessing and downloading content from known malicious
URLs and domains. Integration with Splunk allows AnyConnect’s network visibility module tosend network flow telemetry for analytics and anomalous network activity detection.
Cisco also has a dedicated MSSP offering for endpoint security that includes: a dedicated portal
to manage MSSP customers, a multi-tenant console, and OpEx-based pricing.
Cisco AMP supports open APIs, and an ecosystem of thrid party APT solution integrations.

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STRENGTHS•

Cisco offers a broad security portfolio, which encompasses threat intelligence, heuristics,
behavioral analysis and sandboxing to predict and prevent threats from edge to endpoint.

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AMP tracks all file activity. With continuous monitoring, organizations can look back in time
and trace processes, file activities, and communications to understand the full extent of an
infection, establish root causes, and perform remediation.

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AMP has the ability to roll back time on attacks to detect, alert, and quarantine files that
become malicious after the initial point of entry.

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AMP for Endpoints offers protection across PCs, Macs, mobile devices, Linux, virtualenvironments, as well as an on-premises private cloud option.

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Cisco AMP for Endpoints can be fully integrated with the Cisco AMP for Networks solution
to further increase visibility and control across an organization. AMP capabilities can be
added to Cisco Email and Web Security Appliances, Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention
Systems, Firewalls, Cisco Meraki MX, and Cisco Integrated Services Routers.

WEAKNESSES•

Cisco AMP for Endpoints does not provide features to help uninstall previous security
software.

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Cisco AMP for Endpoints currently offers third party software patch assessment, but does notoffer third party patch software remediation.

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Cisco AMP for Endpoints does not provide content-aware DLP functionality.

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Cisco AMP for Endpoints will appeal mostly to customers with adequate IT management
teams and complex endpoint protection needs, who are already vested in Cisco solutions.

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KASPERSKY
39A/3 Leningradskoe Shosse
Moscow 125212
Russian Federationwww.kaspersky.com
Kaspersky is an international group, which provides a wide range of security products andsolutions for consumers and enterprise business customers worldwide. The company’s businesssolutions are aimed at a broad range of customers including large enterprises, small and mediumsized businesses. Kaspersky is privately owned.
SOLUTIONS
Kaspersky’s Threat Management and Defense portfolio comprises the following solutions:•Kaspersky Anti-Targeted Attack (KATA) Platform – combines network-level advanced
threat discovery and Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) capabilities. It
covers multiple threat entry-points (Web, Mail, endpoint, server, virtual machines)delivering fully automated data collection, centralized data storage, and detection at both
network and endpoint levels. The platform is enriched through Kaspersky ThreatIntelligence and is managed through a single web console.

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Kaspersky EDR (KEDR) – can also work as standalone technology, enabling detection ofcomplex threats, deep investigation powered by Kaspersky Threat Intelligence and MITRE
ATT&CK mapping, as well as a range of response capabilities. Kaspersky EDR can work
alongside third party endpoint security solutions, and shares the same agent as Kaspersky
Endpoint Security for Business.

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Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business (KESB) – is a multi-layered endpoint
protection platform, that provides security for mixed environments.

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Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway (KSMG) – delivers email-based threat protection andprovides an automated response based on in-depth KATA Platform detections.

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Kaspersky Web Traffic Security (KWTS) – delivers web-based threat protection andprovides an automated response based on in-depth KATA Platform detections.

•Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal – offers a single access point to threat intelligence,
available in both machine-readable and human-readable formats.

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Kaspersky Private Security Network (KPSN) – a private threat intelligence database fororganizations with isolated networks, or stringent requirements regarding data-sharing andregulatory compliance.

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Cybersecurity Services – provide access to global threat intelligence, training programs for
specialists, managed detection and response services as well as security and compromise
assessments to close security gaps before their exploitation.

The Kaspersky Anti-Targeted Attack (KATA) Platform and Kaspersky EDR (KEDR) products
deliver the following functionality:o Network traffic analysis (NTA) – uses network sensors to detect activities in multiple
segments of the IT infrastructure, enabling the ‘near real-time’ detection of complex threats
in web and email environments. SMTP, POP3, POP3S, HTTP, HTTPS, ICAP, FTP and DNS
protocols are supported. The NTA module features behavior detection capabilities, andanalyzes traffic and objects through Intrusion Detection and URL reputation analysis.

o Sandboxing – KATA Platform Advanced Sandbox technology provides a safe environment
for the analysis of threat activity, helping identify unknown or tailored malware. Results are
mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK knowledgebase. The sandbox also provides techniques for
OS environment randomization, time acceleration in virtual machines, anti-evasion
techniques, user activity simulation, and others, which contribute to behavior-based
detection.
o Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) – is a global cloud infrastructure holding reputation
verdicts and other information about objects processed by the KATA Platform (files,
domains, URLs, IP addresses and more). A private cloud based solution, Kaspersky Private
Security Network (KPSN), is available for organizations unable to send their data to theglobal KSN cloud but still wishing to benefit a global reputation database.

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APT Protection - Market Quadrant 2020o Targeted Attack Analyzer (TAA) – discovers suspicious actions based on anomaly heuristics,
provisioning real-time automated threat hunting capabilities. It supports the automatic
analysis of events, and their correlation with a unique set of Indicators of Attack (IoAs)
generated by Kaspersky’s Threat Hunters. All IoAs are mapped to MITRE ATT&CK toprovide detailed information including the ATT&CK-defined technique used, a description
and mitigation strategies. Databases of custom IoAs appropriate to the specific infrastructureor the industry sector, can also be created.
o Anti-malware engine – working on a central node, with more aggressive settings than areenabled on endpoint configuration, the engine scans objects for malicious or potentially
dangerous code, as well as sends objects with potentially malicious contents to the sandbox.
o Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) scanning – the KATA Platform allows centralized IoCs
loading from threat data sources and supports automatic scheduled IoCs scanning,streamlining the analysts’ work.
o Detection with YARA rules – supports complex matching rules to search files with specificcharacteristics and metadata. It also allows the creation and uploading of customized YARA
rules in order to analyze objects for threats specific to the organization.
o Retrospective analysis – allows retrospective analysis to be conducted while investigating
multi-stage attacks, even in situations where compromised endpoints are inaccessible orwhen data has been encrypted. In addition, saved files from mail and web traffic can be
automatically rescanned periodically, applying updated detection rules.
o Query builder for proactive threat hunting – Analysts can build complex queries in searchingfor atypical behavior, suspicious events and threats specific to the infrastructure.
o Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal – supports manual threat queries to the ThreatIntelligence knowledgebase to give IT security analysts’ additional context for threat hunting
and effective investigation.
o Third party integration – KATA Platform supports verdict sharing through CEF/Syslog withthe customer’s SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) system, or OpenAPI for
integration scenarios with Next Generation Firewall, Web Gateways and other security
systems.
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STRENGTHS•The Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack (KATA) Platform incorporates Kaspersky EDR tooffer an all-in-one APT Protection Platform based on a unified server architecture andcentralized management.

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The use of a single console and server architecture in the Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack(KATA) Platform and Kaspersky EDR (KEDR) provides security officers with efficient
workflows for improved incident response.

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Kaspersky offers flexible implementation (hardware-independent software appliances) withseparate network sensors and lightweight endpoint agents.

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The KATA Platform supports the automated comparison of internal investigation results with
global reputation data (i.e. through the Kaspersky Security Network), which automaticallychecks files, URLs, domains, and more, to accelerate the incident investigation process.

•For organizations with strict privacy policies, such as financial services or government
agencies, the KATA platform can work in a completely isolated mode, without transferring
any data outside the organization’s perimeter.

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Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response delivers protection from evasive threats that
tend to circumvent existing automatic prevention and detection technologies.

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Kaspersky provides MSSP deployment scenarios with the ability to manage network sensors
and thousands of endpoints within a single unified console, supporting both on-premises andhybrid cloud scenarios.

WEAKNESSES•The Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack (KATA) Platform is geared mainly to on-premises
deployment.

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Kaspersky does not offer Data Loss Prevention (DLP) - customers who feel they require thisfunctionality need to procure it through an additional vendor.

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An EDR agent for mobile platforms is not yet available.

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Kaspersky does not offer yet a CASB solution. However, it provides APIs for integration
with third party CASB solutions, and is developing a CASB solution aimed at mid-sizeorganizations.

ESET, SPOL. S.R.O.
Einsteinova 24
851 01 Bratislava
Slovak Republicwww.eset.com
ESET, founded in 1992, offers cybersecurity products and services for enterprises, small andmedium businesses and consumers. Headquartered in the Slovak Republic, ESET has research,sales and distribution centers worldwide and a presence in over 200 countries. The company isprivately held.
SOLUTIONSESET’s anti-APT product portfolio includes the following solutions:•

ESET Enterprise Inspector (EEI) – is ESET’s EDR solution. It combines ESET’s
detection and prevention technologies, threat intelligence and cloud malware protection
system with other advanced techniques to monitor and evaluate suspicious processes andbehaviors. It can detect policy violations, anomalies, and can provide detailed information
and response options in the event of security incidents. It provides multiple options to
respond to incidents or suspicious activities.

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ESET Dynamic Threat Defense (EDTD) – is ESET’s managed cloud sandboxing solution,
which provides another layer of protection for ESET Endpoint and Server security solutions.
It provides static and dynamic analysis and reputation data, to detect zero-day threats. It ismanaged by the ESET Security Management Center and integrates directly with ESETEnterprise Inspector, ESET Mail Security solutions and ESET Endpoint solutions.

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ESET’s Threat Intelligence Service – is ESET’s threat reputation network. It uses
information gathered from over 110 million sensors that is sent to ESET’s Cloud Malware
Protection System via ESET LiveGrid®. It shares actionable threat intelligence withcustomers. Additionally, it provides IOCs (IP, URL, file hash) and serves as an automatedmalware analysis portal.

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ESET Threat Hunting – is a security service delivered by ESET cybersecurity experts who
perform an on-demand investigation of data, events and alarms generated by the ESETEnterprise Inspector. This may include root cause analysis, forensic investigations, as well as
actionable mitigation advice.

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ESET Threat Monitoring – is a security service delivered by ESET cybersecurity experts
who continuously monitor customer network and endpoint security data to provide alerts inreal time if suspicious activity requires attention. It also provides actionable advice on risk
mitigation.

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ESET Manual Malware Analysis – is an ESET security service which provides full
examination and reverse engineering of submitted files. It also provides detailed reports on
malicious code behavior with recommendations for prevention, removal and mitigation of
attack impact.

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Forensic Analysis & Consulting – is a service which provides manual examination ofsubmitted hardware and investigation by ESET Malware Research experts to provide
mitigation suggestions and minimize breach aftermath.

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ESET Initial Assessment and Optimization – is a service designed for customers utilizing
ESET’s Enterprise Inspector (EEI) EDR solution, which further improves protection anddetection capabilities based on an initial assessment which results in the optimization ofsettings, rules and exclusions specifically tailored to a customer’s environment.

STRENGTHS•

ESET EEI is a natively on-premise solution, which can be alternatively deployed in AWS
and MS Azure instances.

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ESET EEI solution offers strong EDR capabilities which include collection of real time data,
including process execution, loading of DLLs, script execution, manipulation of files,
registry, network communication, process injections, and more.

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ESET solutions offer multi-language support and a large set of localized versions.

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ESET solutions are well known for ease of deployment and on-going use.

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ESET offers single pane of glass administration of all ESET solutions deployed in the
network and controls endpoint prevention, detection and response layers across desptops,
servers, agentless virtual machines, and mobile devices.

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ESMC offers remediation/response capabilities through command tasks which include:
network isolation, restoring files from backup, file quarantining, file removal, process
termination and behavior blocking.

WEAKNESSES•

Currently, some remediation actions require moving from the separate Enterprise Inspector(EEI) console back to the Security Management Center.

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ESET does not currently support macOS or Linux platforms. However, macOS EDR agent
integration is on the vendor’s roadmap for 2020, whereas Linux agent integration is on along-term roadmap.

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ESET does not provide its own DLP solution. However, it offers DLP through the ESETTechnology Alliance, its partner program.

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ESET does not offer a CASB solution or integrate with third party CASB providers.

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ESET lacks visibility in North America, however the vendor is working on to address this.

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TRAIL BLAZERSSOPHOS
The Pentagon
Abingdon Science Park
Abingdon OX14 3YP
United Kingdom
www.sophos.com
Sophos offers IT security solutions for businesses, which include encryption, endpoint, email,Web, next-generation firewall (NGFW), and more. All solutions integrate with Sophos Central,
Sophos's cloud-based management platform, and backed by SophosLabs, its global network of
threat intelligence centers. The company is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. In March 2020,
Sophos was acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, in a move that takes the company
private.
SOLUTIONS
Sophos offers a set of complementary solutions for APT, which comprise: Sophos SG UTM &XG Firewall, for network protection; Sophos Intercept X for next-gen Endpoint Protection
for workstations, servers and mobile devices; and SophosLabs which provides unified threat
intelligence across all platforms. Intercept X Advanced with EDR includes Endpoint Detection
and Response functionality.
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Sophos SG UTM – is an integrated network security system that combines a next-gen
firewall and IPS with web, email, remote access, and wireless security functionality. It
includes Advanced Threat Protection through:o Sandboxing – which analyzes and “detonates” suspicious content in a safe, cloud-based
environment to identify and block previously unseen threats.
o Suspicious traffic detection – which identifies when an endpoint is trying to communicate
with a malicious server. Once detected, the UTM blocks the traffic and notifies the

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administrator. This lets organizations detect the presence of compromised endpoints andprevent attacks from spreading, ex-filtrating data, or receiving commands.
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Sophos Intercept X Endpoint Protection – Sophos Intercept X employs a layered approachto endpoint protection, rather than simply relying on one primary security technique. It
combines foundational and modern techniques. Modern techniques include deep learning
malware detection, exploit prevention, and anti-ransomware specific features. Foundational
techniques include signature-based malware detection, behavior analysis, malicious traffic
detection, device control, application control, web filtering, data loss prevention, and more.

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Sophos Intercept X Advanced with EDR – integrates intelligent endpoint detection andresponse (EDR) with deep learning malware detection, exploit protection, and the features
included in Sophos Intercept X Endpoint Protection, into a single agent.

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SophosLabs – is the company’s global research network, which collects, correlates, andanalyzes endpoint, network, server, email, web, and mobile threat data across Sophos’ entire
customer base. It simplifies configuration by feeding advanced threat intelligence directly
into Sophos products in the form of preconfigured settings and rules. This allows systems to
be deployed quickly without the need for dedicated, trained security staff to update and test
the configuration over time.

Sophos also offers Sophos Firewall-OS (SF-OS) that runs on SG Series appliances and includes
synchronized security technology, which integrates endpoint and network security for protection
against advanced threats. For instance, SF-OS Sophos SG Series Appliances can link the nextgeneration firewall with Sophos Endpoint Protection through its Security Heartbeat synchronized
security technology which enables the network and endpoint to correlate health, threat, andsecurity indicators for prevention, detection, actionable alerting, and remediation. This provides
automated incident response that can restrict network access to endpoints on which malware has
been detected, or that have had their endpoint agent disabled. It also extends UTM Advanced
Threat Protection so that when it sees malicious traffic from an endpoint, it can engage Endpoint
Protection to verify and clean up the infection. The SF-OS comes preinstalled on Sophos XG
Firewall Series appliances.

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STRENGTHS•

Sophos synchronized security integrates Endpoint and Network security for protection
against APTs through automation of threat discovery, investigation, and response.

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Sophos APT solutions emphasize simplicity of configuration, deployment, and management
to minimize the time and expertise required to use the solutions.

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Sophos solutions can remove malware from compromised endpoints, where other vendors
may only issue an alert or temporarily block malicious code.

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Sophos offers real-time threat intelligence between the Sophos UTM and Sophos Endpoint
Protection solutions for faster, more cohesive APT protection.

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Sophos offers Sophos Sandstorm a cloud-based sandbox for the detonation of suspect files toconfirm malicious activity in the controlled environment. Sophos Sandstorm integrates with
the UTM/Firewall/Email and Web solutions.

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Sophos offers a full-featured EMM solution for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, alongwith integrated threat protection for Android. Sophos Mobile Control and Sophos UTM
combine to provide stronger security.

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Sophos UTM and endpoint protection solutions are attractively priced for the mid-market.

WEAKNESSES•

While Sophos APT solutions’ forensic analysis capabilities are used within the product for
automated detection and remediation, only customers of Intercept X Advanced with EDR
have access to the full available forensic information.

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In pursuit of simplicity, Sophos solutions sometimes favor features and rule sets that are
configured automatically by SophosLabs, over providing administrators with granular, do-ityourself controls.

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Currently, Sophos’ application whitelisting is limited to servers; the company does, however,offer category-based application control for workstations.

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Sophos offers only basic CASB capabilities.

SPECIALISTSFORTINET899 Kifer Road
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
www.fortinet.com
Founded in 2000, Fortinet develops security and networking solutions. The company offers
physical and virtual appliances, security subscription services, IaaS and SaaS offerings aimed at
the needs of carriers, data centers, enterprises, distributed offices, SMBs and MSSPs. Fortinet isa publicly traded company.
SOLUTIONS
Fortinet offers an integrated advanced threat protection (ATP) solution set empowered by global
threat intelligence, which includes technologies to prevent, detect and mitigate threats at
network, application and endpoint layers. Fortinet’s product portfolio includes:•

FortiGate Next Generation Firewall – consists of physical and virtual appliances, as wellas on-demand public cloud offerings (AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI), that provide a broadarray of security and networking functions, including firewall, VPN, anti-malware, intrusion
prevention, application control, Web filtering, DLP, SD-WAN, WLAN control and more.

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FortiMail Secure Email Gateway – provides a single solution to protect against inboundattacks, including advanced malware, as well as outbound threats and data loss. It includes:
anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-malware, content disarm and reconstruction, sandboxing, dataleakage prevention (DLP), identity based encryption (IBE), and message archiving. FortiMail

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is available in all form factors, including physical and virtual appliance, native public cloud(e.g. Azure, and AWS), and SaaS (hosted service).
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FortiWeb Web Application Firewall – protects web-based applications and Internet-facing
data from attack and data loss with bi-directional protection against malicious sources,
application layer DoS Attacks, and sophisticated threats such as SQL injection and cross-site
scripting. It blocks unknown application attacks through integrated behavioral-based AI.
FortiWeb is offered as a physical, virtual, and container appliance, public cloud (e.g. Azure,
AWS, Google, and Oracle) and SaaS (hosted service).

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FortiClient Endpoint Protection – offers a centrally managed endpoint client protection fordesktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones on a variety of OS such as Windows, macOS,
Linux, Chromebook, iOS, and Android. It includes a standard set of EPP capabilities withnext generation capabilities such as anti-exploit protection, UEBA/EDR, and sandbox
integration. In addition, it integrates with FortiGate to provide seamless network-endpoint
visibility, audit, one-click or automated remediation, and an end-to-end VPN solution.

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FortiSandbox – is a homegrown sandbox solution that sits at the core of Fortinet’s ATP
solution. Organizations can choose between built-in tested VMs or upload of custom VMs
for their simulated environment. There are also a number of forensic tools built-into the timedriven analysis reports, such as access to captured packets, samples, tracer logs, screenshots,
and interactive sandbox mode. FortiSandbox can be deployed standalone to sniff all traffic,
scan file repositories, allow on-demand submission, and accept blind carbon copy emails.
Organizations can integrate FortiSandbox with the Fortinet portfolio (i.e. FortiGate,
FortiMail, FortiWeb, FortiProxy, FortiADC, and FortiClient), Fortinet Fabric partners (e.g.
VMware/CarbonBlack, SentinelOne, Ziften, and others), as well as third party solutions via
JSON API and ICAP. Local threat intelligence generated from FortiSandbox is shared acrossthese integrated devices in real-time to automate protections against newly discovered
threats. Optionally, intelligence packages can be manually downloaded and are STIX
compatible.
Organizations can combine both FortiSandbox standalone and integrated modes to cover a
wider set of use-cases. FortiSandbox is offered as a hardware and virtual appliance, SaaS
(hosted) as well as natively in the public cloud (AWS and Azure).

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FortiGuard Labs – is Fortinet’s global threat intelligence team, which leverages in-housetools and technologies, develops new services and technologies (e.g. anti-exploit, virus
outbreak, content disarm and reconstruction, and more), publishes zero-day research, andplays an active role in various intelligence partnerships including the Cyber Threat Alliance,and several global and federal cyber security authorities.

STRENGTHS•

Fortinet solutions available in a wide variety of form factors, including physical and virtual
appliance, SaaS (hosted service) and natively in Public Cloud (e.g. AWS, Azure, and others),
which helps it address the complex deployment needs of a broad range of customers.

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Fortinet offers a broad portfolio to facilitate a coordinated and effective approach toadvanced threat protection, but also enjoys a broad set of Fabric Partners with certified
integrations.

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FortiSandbox delivers deep analysis of new threats, including their intended behavior andendpoints that may have been infected, and generates real-time threat intelligence that isshared in real-time with integrated Fortinet solutions, Fabric-Ready partners and third party
security solutions.

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Fortinet delivers custom security processors and hardware to deliver high performance, thus
enabling more scale with better price performance ratio at each inspection point.

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Most Fortinet products are developed in-house (without relying on OEM solutions), whichallows the vendor to deliver solutions that offer broad threat insight and seamless operation
across all products.

WEAKNESSES•

Fortinet only supports firewall-based capabilities to set/manage mobile device policies insupport of BYOD, however customers will have to add full MDM or EMM capabilities froma third party vendor. Fortinet works with certified Fabric-ready partners (e.g. Centrify) thatoffer this capability.

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Fortinet offers only basic API-based CASB functionality, through its own homegrown
FortiCASB solution.

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FortiSandbox integrated endpoint solutions will block and quarantine threats/endpoint
automatically. However, for full reimaging, FortiSandbox sends alerts to FortiSIEM so that aticket can be submitted to perform endpoint restoration.

FORCEPOINT
10900 Stonelake Blvd
3rd Floor
Austin, TX 78759
www.forcepoint.com
Forcepoint, is a Raytheon and Vista Equity Partners joint venture, formed in 2015 through themerger of Websense and Raytheon Cyber Products. Forcepoint offers a systems-oriented
approach to insider threat detection and analytics, cloud-based user and application protection,next-gen network protection, data security and systems visibility.
SOLUTIONS
Forcepoint’s APT solution, Forcepoint Advanced Malware Detection (AMD) is a scalable,easy-to-deploy, behavioral sandbox that identifies targeted attacks and integrates with Forcepoint
Web Security, Forcepoint Email Security, Forcepoint CASB, and Forcepoint Next Generation
Firewall products. Forcepoint partners with Lastline, a sandbox technology vendor, to provide its
Forcepoint AMD capability. Forcepoint AMD is available as a cloud-based solution, or as anappliance. It provides file and email URL sandboxing, detailing forensic reporting and phishingeducation.
There are currently two types of AMD offerings:•

AMD Cloud – is a SaaS solution that integrates out of the box with Forcepoint Web
Security, Email Security, CASB, and NGFW products.

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AMD On Premises – is an on-premises appliance-based solution that integrates out of thebox with Forcepoint Web Security, Email Security, and Next Generation Firewall products.

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Forcepoint’s product portfolio includes:•

Forcepoint Web Security – a Secure Web Gateway solution designed to deliver protection
to organizations embracing the cloud, as their users access the web from any location, on any
device.

•Forcepoint Email Security – a Secure email gateway solution designed to stop spam andphishing emails that may introduce ransomware and other advanced threats.

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Forcepoint CASB – allows organizations provides visibility and control of cloud
applications such as Office 365, Google G Suite, Salesforce, and others.

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Forcepoint NGFW – Next Generation Firewalls that connect and protect people and the data
they use throughout offices, branches, and the cloud.

•Forcepoint DLP – a full content-aware data loss prevention solution which includes OCR,
Drip-DLP, custom encryption detection, machine learning, and fingerprinting of data-inmotion, data-at-rest, or data-in-use.

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Forcepoint ThreatSeeker Intelligence – serves to collect potential indicators of emerging
threat activity daily on a worldwide basis, providing fast network-wide updates.

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Forcepoint Behavioral Analytics (BA) – enables security teams to proactively monitor forhigh risk behavior by leveraging structured and unstructured data to provide visibility into
human activity, patterns, and long-term trends that may comprise human risk.

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Forcepoint Insider Threat – is a user activity monitoring solution used to protectorganizations from data theft, fraud, and sabotage originating from employees and otherinsiders. It provides deep collection capabilities including keystrokes and video of high risk
activity providing security teams context and visibility into user intent.

The Forcepoint Security Manager Console allows integrated policy management, reporting
and logging for multiple on-premise gateways and/or cloud for hybrid customers. The unified
management and reporting functions streamline work for security teams, giving them the context
and insights they need to make better decisions, minimize the dwell time of attacks and preventthe exfiltration of sensitive data.
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STRENGTHS•

Forcepoint offers a broad set of integrated security solutions spanning Web, Email, DLP,
Insider Threat, Cloud Applications and firewalls, with threat intelligence that is shared andapplied across all channels.

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Forcepoint’s flexible packaging allows customers to purchase the product and features theyneed, and add more advanced capabilities over time as threats and needs evolve.

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Forcepoint Behavior Analytics (BA), enables security teams to proactively monitor for highrisk behavior inside the enterprise.

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Forcepoint offers its own context-aware DLP, which provides enterprise-class data theftprotection across endpoints, Web and Email gateways, as well as networked and cloudstorage.

WEAKNESSES•

For remediation, Forcepoint solutions currently provide identification, blocking and alerts ofcompromise, but do not provide malware removal or device re-imaging.

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Forcepoint does not provide an EDR solution. Forcepoint AMD can tie into third party EDR
solutions only through custom integrations.

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Forcepoint does not offer its own sandboxing technology, but delivers sandboxing through apartnership with Lastline, for best-in-class sandboxing technology.

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Forcepoint has lost market visibility, and is primarily focused on the North American
government market.

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FIREEYE
601 McCarthy Blvd.
Milpitas, CA 95035
www.fireeye.com
FireEye, founded in 2004, offers solutions to simplify, integrate and automate security
operations. The company's solutions consist of network security, web security, email security,
file security, endpoint security, malware analysis and security analytics. In addition, FireEyeoffers managed detection and response services, incident response services, threat intelligenceand deep security forensics. FireEye is a publicly traded company.
SOLUTIONS
FireEye’s solutions portfolio comprises the following components:•

FireEye Helix – FireEye Helix is a security operations platform that allows organizations totake control of any incident from alert to fix. FireEye Helix integrates disparate security tools
and augments them with advanced SIEM, orchestration and threat intelligence capabilities.

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FireEye Network Security & Forensics – helps organizations detect and block advanced,
targeted and other evasive attacks hiding in Internet traffic, as well as detect lateral
movement, data exfiltration, account abuse and user behavior anomalies. It uses a
combination of multi-stage virtual execution, intelligence from FireEye as well as third
parties, intrusion prevention, and callback analysis to detect and prevent commodity (e.g.
adware, spyware) as well as evasive and destructive threats (e.g. drive-by-downloads,
ransomware). It combines high performance network data capture and retrieval, withcentralized analysis and visualization. FireEye Network Security offers several different
deployment options including physical or virtual appliance, on-premises, FireEye hosted(Cloud MVX), or private cloud-based.

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FireEye Endpoint Security – brings front-line intelligence and experience to the endpoint,using multiple combined protection engines to block malware and exploits. The solution
detects advanced attacks that bypass protection and enables response with tools andtechniques developed by frontline responders. Included are four engines in one agent forprotection from common and advanced threats and visibility into the threats that havebreached protection with response capabilities for systems across the organization, both on

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FireEye Email Security – is a secure email gateway (cloud edition) that stops email-borne
threats with first-hand knowledge of attacks and attackers. Organizations can consolidate
their email security stack with a comprehensive, single-vendor solution that blocks malware
and suspicious URLs, as well as phishing, impersonation techniques and spam. It is alsoavailable as an on-premises solution.

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FireEye File Protect – enables scanning file shares (e.g. Sharepoint and One Drive) for
malicious content that may have been brought into the organization from outside sources,
such as online file shares and portable file storage devices.

FireEye Security suite bundles the Helix, Email Security, Endpoint Security and Network
Security components into a single offering aimed to ease adoption by mid-market customers.
FireEye also offer customized subscriptions and professional services (through its Mandiant andiSIGHT acquisitions) for threat intelligence, threat prevention, detection, analysis, and response.
FireEye Managed Defense offers a managed detection and response service that packages
various FireEye technologies along with expertise and threat intelligence.
STRENGTHS•

FireEye solutions can be deployed as on-premises appliances, virtual appliances, as well as in
the cloud (through Amazon AWS).

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FireEye offers protection across a broad attack surface: network, web, email, content, andendpoint.

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FireEye offers a security orchestration solution that supports the integration of detection andanalysis capabilities of FireEye and non-FireEye technology solutions, to reduce operational
overhead and increase productivity.

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Dynamic threat intelligence sharing, which includes callback coordinates and communication
characteristics, can be shared through the FireEye Dynamic Threat Intelligence (DTI) cloud
to notify all subscribers of new threats.

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FireEye Network, Email, and File Protect are easy-to-manage, clientless solutions that deploy
quickly and require no tuning. The solutions can be deployed out-of-band, for in-line
monitoring, or as in-line active blocking.

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FireEye Network with IPS consolidates advanced threat prevention with traditional security.
It automates alert validation, reduces false alerts and helps detect hidden attacks.

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FireEye Helix offers a single integrated console to simplify and manage the entire security
operations workflow by bringing together FireEye capabilities and third party technology,
with intelligence and automation.

WEAKNESSES•

FireEye Network Security offers attack prevention, containment, and orchestration, but not
automated remediation.

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FireEye has a comprehensive offering for APT protection. However, customers may find it
difficult to understand how to put together an effective APT deployment, without somedesign support by the vendor.

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FireEye does not offer a firewall solution, however, it leverages several capabilities,
including URL analysis and Intrusion Prevention (IPS), to detect malicious intent.

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FireEye does not offer a mobile security solution. However, FireEye partners with several
mobile device management providers to allow them to act on threats originating from mobile
devices.

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FireEye Network Security does not offer Data Loss Prevention (DLP). DLP is currently only
available as part of the FireEye Email Security solution.

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FireEye does not offer a CASB solution, however, it provides APIs for integration with third
party CASB solutions.

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VMWARE CARBON BLACK
1100 Winter St.
Waltham, MA 02451
www.carbonblack.com
Carbon Black is a provider of next-generation endpoint security. The company leverages its big
data and analytics cloud platform, the CB Predictive Security Cloud, to enable customers to
defend against advanced cyber threats, including malware, ransomware, and non-malware
attacks. In 2019, Carbon Black was acquired by VMware.
SOLUTIONSCB Predictive Security Cloud is a next generation endpoint protection platform that
consolidates security in the cloud, making it easy to prevent, investigate, remediate, and hunt for
threats from a single endpoint agent, console, and data set. It offers the following modules which
can be managed through the same user interface, with a single login:● CB Defense – delivers next-generation antivirus (NGAV) and endpoint detection andresponse (EDR) functionality.
● CB ThreatHunter – is a threat hunting and incident response solution delivering unfilteredvisibility for security operations center (SOC) and incident response (IR) teams. The CB
Predictive Security Cloud captures and stores all OS events across every individual endpoint.
Leveraging this unfiltered data, CB ThreatHunter provides immediate access to a complete
picture of an attack at all times, reducing investigation time. CB ThreatHunter enables teams
to proactively hunt for threats, as well as uncover suspicious and stealthy behavior, disrupt
active attacks and address potential defense gaps. It allows organizations to respond andremediate in real-time, stopping active attacks and quickly repairing damage.
● CB LiveOps – is a real-time security operations solution that enables organizations to ask
questions of all endpoints and take action to instantly remediate issues. It closes the gap
between security analysis and IT operations by giving administrators visibility into precise
details about the current state of all endpoints, enabling them to make fast decisions to reducerisk.
● CB ThreatSight – is a managed service for CB Defense that provides a team of Carbon

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APT Protection - Market Quadrant 2020Black security experts who work side-by-side with customer organizations to help validate
and prioritize alerts, uncover new threats, and accelerate investigations.
● CB Defense for VMware – is a cloud-delivered security solution for protecting applications
deployed in virtualized data centers.
Carbon Black solutions are delivered as cloud services, however, the vendor also offers solutions
for customers which may have on-premises needs. Carbon Black supports all leading OS
platforms, including Windows, macOS, and Linux.
STRENGTHS•

Carbon Black offers its solution through a multi-tenant cloud platform, which makes it easierfor customers to consume its services while benefiting from broad real-time threat analysis
across a wide number of endpoints.

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Carbon Black offers strong prevention based on streams of activity delivered via unfiltereddata collection, which enables the Predictive Security Cloud to perform well-informed
analysis to detect new attack patterns and deploy new logic to stop malicious activity.

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Carbon Black Predictive Security Cloud, allows customers to choose which product modules
are right for their organization. All modules are easily deployed through the same userinterface and agent.

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Carbon Black offers an extensible architecture based on open APIs, which allows partners
and customers to easily extend and integrate with existing security components.

WEAKNESSES•

Carbon Black Predictive Security Cloud does not currently offer some traditional endpoint
protection functionality, such as mobile security, or DLP. However, custom integrations are
possible through the platform’s open APIs.

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Carbon Black Predictive Security Cloud does not currently provide device control. This is on
the vendor’s roadmap.

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The Carbon Black Predictive Security Cloud platform does not yet provide application
whitelisting capabilities. Carbon Black currently offers this through its on-premises
application control product, CB Protection.

MICROSOFT
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
www.microsoft.com
Microsoft provides a broad range of products and services for businesses and consumers, througha portfolio of solutions for office productivity, messaging, collaboration, and more.
SOLUTIONS
Microsoft offers the following solutions in the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) protection
space:•

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (Office 365 ATP) – is a cloud-based email
filtering solution that provides protection against phishing, malware and spam attacks. It
offers near real-time protection against high-volume spam campaigns, with DKIM and
DMARC support. It also adds protection against “zero-day” attachments and harmful URL
links, through real-time behavioral analysis and sandboxing. It can be deployed as an add-on
to on-premises Microsoft Exchange Server deployments, Microsoft Exchange Online cloud
mailboxes, or hybrid environments. It is included in Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365
Education A5, and Microsoft 365 Business plans, or it can be added to other select Office
365 plans.
Microsoft ATP provides the following capabilities:
o Safe Links – protect users by blocking access to malicious URLs in emails.
o Safe Attachments – provides zero-day protection against unknown malware and viruses.
Suspicious messages and attachments are routed to a special environment where machine

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learning and analysis techniques are used to detect malicious intent. If no suspicious
activity is detected, the message is released for delivery to the mailbox.
o Spoof Intelligence – detects when a sender appears to be sending email on behalf of one
or more other users in an organization, and allows blocking of spoofed emails.
o Quarantining – allows messages identified as spam, phishing, or malware to bequarantined.
o Advanced anti-phishing – relies on machine learning capabilities to detect phishingemails.
o ATP for SharePoint, OneDrive and Microsoft Teams – can be turned on to help detectand block malicious files in team sites and document libraries.
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Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Microsoft Defender ATP) – is a cloudbased EDR analytics protection and response service designed to help detect, block andremediate zero-day threats. It provides protection against phishing, malware and spam
attacks. It can offer near real-time protection against high-volume spam campaigns, with
DKIM and DMARC support. It also adds protection against “zero-day” attachments andharmful URL links, through real-time behavioral analysis and sandboxing. It is available with
Windows 10 Enterprise E5, Windows 10 Education E5, or Microsoft 365 E5 plans. It uses
technology built into Windows 10 and Microsoft cloud services to provide:oEndpoint behavioral sensors – sensors embedded in Windows 10, collect and process
behavioral signals from the operating system and send sensor data to private, cloudinstances of Windows Defender ATP.

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Cloud security analytics – leverages machine-learning across the across the entire
Microsoft Windows ecosystem to deliver insight, detection, and recommended responses
to advanced threats.

oThreat intelligence – leverages threat intelligence collected by Microsoft, security teams,
and augmented by threat intelligence provided by partners, to enable Windows Defender
ATP to identify attacker tools, techniques, and procedures, and generate alerts when these

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APT Protection - Market Quadrant 2020are detected.
oManaged Detection and Response – as part of Microsoft Defender ATP, Microsoft alsooffers Microsoft Threat Experts, a managed detection and response (MDR) service
which combines targeted attack notification with on-demand SOC expert services. It isavailable as part of the Microsoft 365 E5 subscription plan.

Microsoft Defender ATP is also available for Mac platforms, while support for Linux
platforms is currently available only through partners.
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Azure Advanced Threat Protection (Azure ATP) – is a hybrid solution which offers
similar functionality to Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) and serves to protectorganization’s on-premises networks. It parses network traffic via on-premises ATP sensors,and sends all parsed data to the Azure cloud for analysis and reporting. All information ispresented in the cloud by the Azure ATP workspace portal. It is available with Enterprise +Mobility Suite E5.

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Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) – is an on-premises platform designed toprotect enterprises from advanced targeted attacks and insider threats through machinelearning techniques. ATA provides behavioral analytics, information on attack timelines,
SIEM integration, email alerts, and builds a security graph detailing interactions of users,
devices and resources.

Microsoft also offers its advanced threat protection technologies in a single package called
Microsoft 365 Identity & Threat Protection which combines Microsoft Threat Protection(comprising Azure ATP, Windows Defender ATP, and Office 365 ATP) with Microsoft’s CASB
offering Cloud App Security, and Azure Active Directory. The Identity & Threat Protection
package functionality is available as part of the Microsoft 365 E5 suite, or as an add-on package
to other suites.
STRENGTHS•

Microsoft ATP solutions come bundled free of charge with some Microsoft Office 365 plans,or are a low-cost add-on to most other plans. Likewise, Microsoft ATA is available free ofcharge to customers with Enterprise CAL licenses. Where an additional fee is required it istypically very small.

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Microsoft has been investing heavily to address growing concerns over spam, spoofing,phishing attacks, as well as blended attacks through attachments and harmful URLs.

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Microsoft ATP cloud-based solutions are easy to deploy, and manage for customers of all
sizes.

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Microsoft Defender ATP is a good first step for organizations looking for an entry-level EDR
solution.

WEAKNESSES•

While Microsoft has been investing heavily in its anti-malware, antispam, anti-phishing, andzero-day protection capabilities, customers still report high degrees of spam, malware andother forms of attack. Most Microsoft customers tend to also deploy additional email security
solutions from best-of-breed security vendors.

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Customers with hybrid (on-premise and cloud) environments often find it difficult tounderstand how to effectively layer and combine the many different Microsoft security
solutions.

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Microsoft offers many different plans at different price points, but it is sometimes difficult
for customers to understand exactly what security features are included with what plans.

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Microsoft Office 365 customers we spoke to as part of this research, continue to report that
Microsoft’s customer support organization is not sufficiently knowledgeable when it comesto security issues.

PALO ALTO NETWORKS
4401 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
www.paloaltonetworks.com
Palo Alto Networks, founded in 2005, is well known for its next-generation firewall solutions.
The company covers a wide range of network security functions, including advanced threat

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protection, firewall, IDS/IPS, and URL filtering. Palo Alto Networks is publicly traded.
SOLUTIONS
WildFire is Palo Alto Networks’ sandboxing anti-APT technology. It integrates with Palo Alto
Networks’ on-premises or cloud Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) product line. WildFire isavailable as a subscription cloud service, or as a private cloud solution through the WF-500
appliance. WildFire provides complete visibility into all traffic, including advanced threats,
across nearly 400 applications, including Web traffic, email protocols (SMTP, IMAP, POP), andFTP, regardless of ports or encryption (SSL). It uses a threat intelligence prioritization feature
called AutoFocus, which combines automated analysis with human intelligence from its Unit42
threat research team.
WildFire combines four independent techniques for threat discovery:o Dynamic analysis – observes files as they detonate in a purpose-built virtual environment,
which enables detection of zero-day exploits and malware using hundreds of behavioral
characteristics.
o Static analysis – enables detection of exploits and malware that attempt to evade dynamic
analysis, as well as identifies variants of existing malware.
o Machine learning – extracts unique features from each file, training a predictive machinelearning model to identify new malware.
o Bare metal analysis – allows threats to be sent to a real hardware environment for detonation,
removing the ability to deploy anti-VM analysis techniques.
WildFire executes suspicious content in Windows XP, Windows 7, Android and macOS
operating systems. It offers visibility into commonly exploited file formats, such as EXE, DLL,
ZIP, PDF, Microsoft Office documents, Java files, Android APKs, Adobe Flash applets and links
within emails.
Wildfire offers native integration with the Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Security Platform, aservice which brings advanced threat detection and prevention to all security platforms deployedthroughout the network, automatically sharing protections with all WildFire subscribers globally
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within minutes. It offers a unified, hybrid cloud architecture, which can be deployed either
through the public cloud, or via a private cloud appliance that maintains all data on the local
network.
WildFire offers integrated logging, reporting and forensics through a number of its own
management solutions, including: the PAN-OS management interface, Panorama network
security management, AutoFocus and the WildFire portal. An open API is available for
integration with third-party security tools, such as SIEM (Security Information and EventManagement) solutions.
STRENGTHS•

Palo Alto Networks was an early innovator in network security, and one of the early
developers of anti-APT technology.

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Wildfire is available in a variety of form factors including on-premises, cloud, or as a private
cloud solution. Hybrid deployments are also supported where sensitive files may beprocessed in the private cloud, whereas other content is analyzed in the cloud.

•Wildfire integrates across Palo Alto Networks’ entire product portfolio to offer full, rapid, up
to date threat intelligence.

WEAKNESSES•

Palo Alto Networks focuses on next generation firewalls and network security, this means its
APT protection tends to be aimed mainly at the network layer rather than at applications.

•

Palo Alto Networks focuses on detection and prevention, but does not offer incident
remediation (IR) capabilities.

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Palo Alto Networks solutions tend to be more costly when compared with other vendors inthe space.

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While Palo Alto Networks provides strong real-time analysis, forensics and static analysis
could be improved to ease investigations and reporting.

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Palo Alto Networks does not offer DLP functionality, customers which need thisfunctionality will need to look for third party solutions.

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MCAFEE
2821 Mission College BoulevardSanta Clara, CA 95054
www.mcafee.com
McAfee delivers security solutions and services for business organizations and consumers. The
company provides security solutions, threat intelligence and services that protect endpoints,
networks, servers, the Cloud and more.
SOLUTIONS
McAfee Advanced Threat Defense enables organizations to detect advanced targeted attacks
and convert threat information into immediate action and protection. McAfee offers physicalappliances, virtual appliances and cloud options.
Unlike traditional sandboxing, Advanced Threat Defense includes static code analysis andmachine learning, which provide additional inspection to broaden detection and expose evasive
threats. Tight integration between security solutions, from network and endpoint to investigationand support for open standards, enables instant sharing of threat information across anorganization including multi-vendor environments. Protection is enhanced as attempts toinfiltrate the organization are blocked. Indicators of compromised data are used to find andcorrect threat infiltrations, helping organizations recover post-attack.
Advanced Threat Defense comprises the following characteristics:•

Advanced analysis – ensures that dynamic analysis through sandboxing, static code analysis
and machine learning, together provide inspection and detection capabilities. Malicious
activity is observed in the sandbox environment and simultaneously examined with in-depth

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static code analysis and machine learning to broaden detection and identify evasive
maneuvers.
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Detailed reporting – provides critical information for investigation including MITRE
ATT&CK mapping, disassembly output, memory dumps, graphical function call diagrams,
embedded or dropped file information, user API logs, and PCAP information. Threat timelines help visualize attack execution steps•

Centralized deployment – allows customers to leverage shared resources across protocols andsupported products for malware analysis with a scalable appliance-based architecture.
Flexible deployment options include physical appliances, virtual appliances and cloud
options, including Azure.

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Integrated security framework – a McAfee-wide initiative, allows integrated solutions tomove organizations from analysis and conviction to protection and resolution. At the data
level, Advanced Threat Defense integrates with other solutions to make immediate decisions
about next steps from blocking traffic, executing an endpoint service, investigation and/or
detection of whether an organized attack is taking place against targeted individuals.

Advanced Threat Defense plugs in and integrates out-of-the-box with other McAfee solutions,
including:
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McAfee Network Security Platform (IPS)
McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (SIEM)
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO)
McAfee Endpoint Solutions
McAfee Active Response (EDR)
McAfee Web Gateway
McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange

These integrations operate directly or over the Data Exchange Layer (DXL), which serves as theinformation broker and middleware messaging layer for McAfee security products. McAfee Data
Exchange Layer (DXL) and REST APIs facilitate integration with third party products. McAfee
supports threat-sharing standards, such as Structured Threat Information eXpression (STIX) and
Trusted Automated eXchange of Indicator Information (TAXII) to enable further integration

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with third party solutions. Advanced Threat Defense also supports third party email gateways,
and integration with BRO-IDS, an open source network security monitor.
STRENGTHS•

McAfee offers deployment and purchasing flexibility through appliance, virtual applianceand cloud form factors with CapEx and OpEx purchase options. McAfee Advanced Threat
Defense is also available from the Azure Marketplace.

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Combination of in-depth static code, machine learning and dynamic analysis throughsandboxing, provide strong analysis and detection capabilities.

•

Tight integration between Advanced Threat Defense and security solutions directly, throughAPIs, open standards or the McAfee Data Exchange Layer (DXL), allows instant information
sharing and action across the network when malicious files are detected. McAfee Security
Innovation Alliance partners are also integrating to publish and subscribe to DXL threat
intelligence.

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Report and outputs include sharing of Indicators of Compromise (IOC) data through threat
sharing standards (STIX/TAXII) to better target investigations, or take action.

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McAfee offers full protection across endpoints, desktop computers and servers.

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Additional detection engines, including signatures, reputation, and real-time emulation
enhance analysis speed.

•Centralized analysis device acts as a shared resource between multiple security devices from
McAfee, as well as from other vendors.

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Advanced Threat Defense handles encrypted traffic analysis, and in addition uses a
proprietary technique, which allows for the unpacking, unprotecting, and unencrypting ofsamples so they can be analyzed.

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McAfee supports centralized, vector-agnostic deployments, where customers can purchase
based on volume of files analyzed, regardless of originating vector (e.g. web, endpoint, or
network).

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McAfee offers its own DLP technology, which is applied in-line to traffic by an integrated
Web Gateway.

WEAKNESSES•

McAfee does not offer its own email gateway solution. However, McAfee Advanced Threat
Defense does integrate with third party email solutions to provide file attachment analysis.

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Cloud deployment is not currently available on AWS.

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McAfee Advanced Threat Defense does not support Apple macOS, or Linux platforms.

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McAfee Advanced Threat Defense mobile malware inspection is only available for Android(.apk) applications. However, management and protection for iOS and Android devices isprovided through McAfee MVISION Mobile.

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For remediation, McAfee Active Response initiates several actions (e.g. blocking, cleaning
up malware, and quarantining endpoints), however, it does not rollback to a known goodstate. However, rollback remediation is provided through McAfee MVISION Endpoint.

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