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Volume 22
April 2018 Edition

Gurucul Competes in 2018 ‘ ASTORS ’ Homeland Security Awards

Gurucul Risk Analytics ( GRA ) is a multi-use UEBA platform with an open architecture that ingests virtually any dataset for desired attributes , and includes configurable out-of-the-box analytics .
Gurucul , a leader in user and entity behavior analytics ( UEBA ), identity analytics ( IdA ), and the 2016 Platinum ‘ ASTORS ’ Award Winner for Best Cyber Excellence Solution , is pleased to announce Gurucul Risk Analytics has been nominated to compete in the 2018 ‘ ASTORS ’ Homeland Security Awards Program .
Gurucul pioneered the cybersecurity category called user and entity behavior analytics ( UEBA ) and was the only vendor cited for meeting all five use cases outlined in the Market Guide for UEBA report by analyst firm Gartner :
• Security Management
• Insider Threats
• Data Exfiltration / DLP
• Identity Access Management
• SaaS Security
• plus Extra Qualifications for Compliance and Cyber Fraud
Gurucul Risk Analytics ( GRA ) is a multi-use UEBA platform with an open architecture that ingests virtually any dataset for desired attributes , and includes configurable out-of-the-box analytics .
GRA is changing the way government organizations and enterprises protect themselves against insider threats , account compromise , IP and data theft , external attacks , and data exfiltration on-premises and in the cloud .
The platform incorporates security intelligence , big data analytics , machine learning , anomaly detection and predictive risk-scoring algorithms to reduce the attack surface for accounts , remove unnecessary access rights and privileges , and to identify , predict and prevent breaches .
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