Authentic8 Blog Category: Corporate News

Authentic8 Completes FedRAMP ‘In Process’ Authorization Milestone

Posted by: A8 Team
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Authentic8, the maker of Silo, the leading web isolation platform for commercial and government organizations, announced today that it has completed all requisite steps and is formally “In Process” for FedRAMP authorization.

What Is FedRAMP?

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a government-wide certification program that standardizes the security, reliability, and integrity of cloud products and services. FedRAMP certification aims to ensure consistent compliance across all federal agencies and streamlines approval and procurement processes.

Authentic8 began working with government organizations in 2015. With more than 160 federal, state, and local agencies relying on Silo cloud browsing and web investigation solutions to execute their most important missions, Authentic8 is the largest provider of isolation technology to US government organizations.

“Something as simple as going online presents significant risk to any organization, and government data is a particularly sweet target for cybercriminals and nation states,” said Justin Cleveland, Head of Authentic8’s government business. “Achieving FedRAMP authorization will help us expand

Update on Meltdown and Spectre Exploits

Posted by: Kevin Lund
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Three months ago, the industry was on high alert due to the publication of two new security exploits: Meltdown and Spectre see my prior post on this topic.

Since then, Authentic8 has aggressively updated its software at both the system and application level, from kernel to browser (and every patch in between). We have been actively monitoring our systems for security issues, as we always have and will continue to do.

These attacks did not represent a qualitative change in the security landscape but were a reminder that threats are always present. Some are known; most are probably not.

The Meltdown and Spectre threat reminds us that monitoring and rapid response are vital to our security and, by extension, the security of our customers.

While we haven’t seen any in-the-wild exploits that take advantage of Meltdown and Spectre, security breaches attributed to the lack of basic IT hygiene continue unabated.

We encourage you to re-assess - continuously - your basic security

Silo Browser Beats Google Chrome, Georgetown Study Finds

Posted by: Scott Petry
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Security Without Compromise, Better for Enterprise Productivity

A new study by Georgetown University researchers confirms: Silo, the secure browser delivered as a cloud-based service by Authentic8, provides enterprise users with a higher level of protection against malware threats than Google’s Chrome browser.

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The tests were conducted at the Security and Software Engineering Research Center at Georgetown University (S2ERC). Their results, now published in the S2ERC Productive Browser Report [PDF], cast a new light on browser security in the enterprise space.

One of the most telling outcomes of the study concerns a fundamental difference between a local browser - in this case, Chrome, often considered the most secure among “regular” browsers - and a cloud browser like Silo.

When the S2ERC researchers exposed their testing environment running Chrome to 54 malicious files on the web, the machine running Chrome was infected by eight of them. The infection rate of the computer running Silo? Zero.

In short, approximately 1/7 of the malicious

Risk Management and Employee Cybersecurity

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Risk management will be a central topic at the 3rd annual ALM cyberSecure conference in New York City this year.

The cross-industry gathering of thought leaders on December 4-5 aims to facilitate a holistic approach to data security, risk management and data governance.

Influential business leaders from the cybersecurity industry and high-ranking law enforcement officials will be convening with corporate risk management, compliance and law department leaders at the conference, which features speakers from numerous Fortune 100 companies.

Authentic8 Co-Founder and CEO Scott Petry will moderate a discussion panel on “Revamping Employee Cybersecurity Policies and Training to Mitigate Legal Risks” on December 4th.

Scott Petry will be joined on stage by Daniel Pepper, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Comcast; Adam Rubin, General Counsel of PrizeLogic; and Allen Brandt, Executive Director, Associate General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.

Balancing IT security, data protection and privacy

Balancing IT security and data protection with the needs

When URL Filtering Fails, This Secure Browser Has Your Back

Posted by: Gerd Meissner
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Illustration: Infographic - Silo, the Remote Secure Enterprise Browser with Secure Web Gateway (SWG) IntegrationCORPORATE NEWS, SECURITY

Too frequently, URL filtering fails to catch malicious websites, or it blocks resources that employees need to do their job. With its new secure web gateway (SWG) integration Authentic8’s remote secure browser Silo now helps enterprises close this security gap.

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Secure web gateway (SWG) solutions provide a generally reliable way for the enterprise to handle users’ web requests, allowing some sites to be accessed and others to be blocked.

To maintain security and efficiency, “generally” reliable may not be enough. A web resource that an employee needs may not have been crawled and categorized by the SWG vendor yet. Another URL may have been cataloged, yet somehow ended up in the wrong category. Or a resource that was approved earlier has since been infected with malware.

If the SWG allows users to access a potentially dangerous web resource without protection or security backstop, the consequences to the company could be disastrous.

Because regular browsers fetch and process all