Public Relations

Asgent Announces New Approach in Cyber Security -
Stopping Advanced Attacks via Deceptions Everywhere®

June 8, 2016
Asgent, Inc.
（JASDAQ: 4288）

Asgent, Inc. (JASDAQ: 4288, President & CEO: Takahiro Sugimoto, located in Chuo-ku, Tokyo), a pioneer in network security and operations management solutions, announces the start of sales for Deceptions Everywhere®, a cyber security solution from Illusive Networks Ltd. (CEO: Shlomo Touboul, headquartered in Tel Aviv). Illusive Networks’™ deception technology gained attention at the RSA Conference in the US, and is a new type of cyber-attack security solution that neutralizes targeted attacks and Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) by creating a deceptive layer across the entire network.

In recent years, large scale information leaks are occurring constantly. Damage from such leaks is occurring in various industries such as education, mail-order companies etc. regardless of the organizations’ business field, not to mention the Japan Pension Service leak which occurred in 2015. In the future, cyber-attacks are expected to increase in number, with the 202 Tokyo Olympics in sight, and so organizations and companies will require even greater security measures. However, due to the increased complexity of attack methods, traditional countermeasures such as firewalls and IPS devices can no longer prevent attacks, and it is becoming increasingly necessary to put countermeasures in place to deal with breaches that have already occurred.

Illusive Networks™ takes on the most challenging cybersecurity problem facing organizations today - targeted attacks. By covering a company's entire network - every endpoint, server and network component - with ever changing deceptions, illusive disrupts and detects breaches with real-time forensics and without disruption to business. Illusive Networks addresses the problem of false positive alerts - real users never interact with illusive's alternate reality. Anyone that does is an attacker. When attackers act on false information, illusive instantly detects them.

A network from the attacker’s perspective (left) and the actual network (right)

Illusive's Attacker View™ analyzes the current state of the network to expose unseen network paths between computers that advanced attackers use in lateral movement infiltration. Attack path visualizations enable security deceptions to be deployed by Illusive Networks to obfuscate the existing attack vectors. This creates an exponentially more complex network that the advanced attacker sees, to traverse without knowing what information is real, and what will trigger an actionable alert by illusive. The pre-deception and post-deception deployment views of each network are revolutionary in cybersecurity.

Asgent will be exhibiting Deceptions Everywhere® and Attacker View™ at Interop Tokyo 2016 from June 8 at Makuhari Messe (Booth No. 6W21 Security World).