American Security Today September Digital Magazine September 2016

Volume 7 Dark Reading Announces Winners of Best of Black Hat Awards September 2016 Edition Vectra addresses several of security professionals’ most persistent challenges, with solutions that are both inventive and practical. Their solution helps prioritize threats for your specific organization, can reduce attacker dwell time, and do so with a lightweight solution. Most importantly, Vectra’s tool allows security teams to identify their most important assets, by making sure those systems are identified at the top of the priority list. Finalists: SentinelOne and ZeroFOX Most Innovative Thought Leader: Paul Vixie, Farsight Security Information security leaders recognized during Black Hat USA, in Las Vegas Dark Reading announced the winners of the inaugural Best of Black Hat Awards, a new program recognizing innovative companies and business leaders in the Black HatUSA Business Hall. Awards spanned three categories, honoring technical developments within the security industry. Winners were recognized during an awards ceremony held in conjunction with Black Hat USA, running July 30 – August 4 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. And the winners are… Most Innovative Startup: Deep Instinct LTD Deep learning is the next stage of machine learning, mimicking the brain’s ability to learn and make decisions, and Deep Instinct is the first company to apply this type of artificial intelligence to cybersecurity, which made the company a top choice for the Award. In addition, benchmark tests of Deep Instinct’s technology indicate a high degree of accuracy in detecting malware, at 99.2%. And unlike some endpoint security approaches, it occurs locally and there’s no sandbox or kicking it to the cloud for additional analysis. Finalists: Phantom Cyber Corp. and SafeBreach Inc. Most Innovative Emerging Company: Vectra Inc. Paul enjoys working, researching and innovating in areas where few others are willing to go. In the last year, Paul has taken some of the lessons he’s learned about DNS and the way the internet works, and built Farsight Security, which collects and processes more than 200,000 observations per second to help security operations centers and incident response teams identify threats more quickly. In addition to his work with Farsight Security, he continues to participate in a variety of efforts, including source address validation; the OpSec Trust initiative, which is building a trusted, vetted security community for sharing information, and Internet governance, including the controversial discussion around route name service. Finalists: Krishna Narayanaswamy, Chief Scientist and Co-founder, Netskope, Inc.and Jeff Williams, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder, Contrast Security For more information about the Awards, visit http:// ubm.io/BestofBHWinners. Future Black Hat Dates and Events • Black Hat Europe 2016, Business Design Centre, London, England, November 1-4, 2016 • Black Hat Asia 2017, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, March 28-31, 2017 13

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