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Volume 22 GRA monitors user behaviors to detect threats that appear as “normal” activity to traditional security products, including stolen login credentials and ma- licious authorized insiders. April 2018 Edition GRA, which runs on Hadoop, supports an open choice of big data repositories and can be de- ployed flexibly on any leading big data infra- structure. It is a proven, mature UEBA platform that is success- This protects existing IT investments, eliminates fully deployed worldwide by enterprises and gov- data duplication, and reduces storage fees. ernment agencies. Customers can simply layer Gurucul’s advanced secu- While most UEBA solutions are on-premises only, or re- rity analytics engine on top of their existing or new quire another partner solution for cloud visibility, Gurucul Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR and Elastic/ GRA provides a cloud API-based solution for visibility into ELK deployments. SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and IDaaS solutions to uniquely span on-premise and the cloud. Unlike alternatives, GRA goes beyond rules, signa- Organizations with IT resources that span the data center tures and patterns with machine learning models and cloud struggle to detect and prevent data exfiltration that learn normal base lines and apply advanced se- curity intelligence and analytics to detect abnormal and privilege abuse. user behavior. Gurucul’s hybrid behavior analytics gives GRA 360 degree visibility to detect threats that evade cloud and data-center In addition to UEBA, GRA reduces the attack surface area of access through identity analytics (IdA). only security solutions. (Gurucul is transforming the enterprise security with user be- havior based machine learning and predictive analytics to mon- (How Important is Identity as a Threat Plane? Find out here.) itor for threats.) 11