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Asgent Announces “SecurityPlus Automatic Blocking・Design/Configuration Service” for Public Institutions to Prevent Leakage of Information Assets in Emergency Situations

July 3, 2015
Asgent, Inc.
(JASDAQ: 4288)

Asgent, Inc. (President & CEO: Takahiro Sugimoto, located in Chuo-ku, Tokyo), a pioneer in network security and operations management solutions, announces the start of a new “SecurityPlus※1 Automatic Blocking・Design/Configuration Service” to prevent damage from leakage of information assets in emergency situations.

【Background】

As the number of advanced targeted attacks focused on public institutions increases rapidly, so organizations such as central government, regional municipalities, independent administrative agencies and special corporations that bear the responsibility for public safety must consider extensive defensive mechanisms. Quick response in case of attacks including fast decision making and response plan deployment is also required.

【Issues with Network Blocking】

When an advanced targeted attack is in play, measures such as early attack detection, capturing evidence and defending against information leaks are obviously important. However, even in cases where the organization may have sensors or monitoring equipment in place, it is a fact that in many cases there is a delay in judgment to perform network blocking on the information being targeted by the attack or quarantining of personal and other critical information due to concerns regarding suspension in operations or the effect on related supply chains.
Also, cases are also often seen where the base for decision making or traffic paths with the decision maker, decision making privileges are not organized, resulting in a large extension of damage due to late judgment by the decision maker.

【Solving the Issues with Automatic Blocking】

In order to resolve the aforementioned issues, it can be effective to minimize damage in an emergency with automatic blocking, performed by working together with a firewall solution that operates on automatic blocking rules specifically designed using the real-time monitoring results of the network security environment from the SIEM (Security Information and Event Management).
Moreover, it is necessary for automatic blocking to not block the entire network, just terminals and traffic pathways or servers related to the information leakage that must be prevented against, while keeping the effects on normal operations to a minimum. In other words, with regards to designing rules, when traffic detected as infected is blocked and there is suspicious access activities to personal or critical information, it is necessary to design a partial block to block the server where the information is stored.
In order to determine the automatic block rules, it is necessary to define in a detailed manner the objects to be blocked and their thresholds based on detailed formation of a rational diagnostic scenario that projects damage amounts, social, ethical and personal impact that takes into account (through analysis, assessment and determination) by risk assessment the importance of business processes and information assets for each organization.

【Asgent’s Automatic Blocking・Design/Configuration Service】

Asgent has deep experience in deploying security tools for public institutions, and was also among the first to begin risk assessment. Currently, Asgent has a strong track record in risk assessment for public institutions as well, and Asgent’s specialists who are well versed in government and bureaucratic operations as well as public safety are capable of utilizing risk assessment to perform automatic blocking・design that gives the highest priority to the effect on day to day operation.
Asgent’s risk assessment does a lot more than just giving an outsider’s view, with risk evaluations of information assets in line with the individual missions of each public institution, including government, and configuration of detailed automatic blocking rules for each SIEM※2. As a result, it is possible to minimize the effect on operational continuity while performing partial automatic blocks only on the traffic pathways, servers and terminals related to the information leakage that must be protected against.
Asgent will also make product and design proposals for security and network products that are not biased toward any vendor, in order to provide the most optimized automatic blocking while also maximizing the security products already in place within the organization.


The “SecurityPlus Automatic Blocking・Design/Configuration Service” with clearly defined scope for each type of organization based on risk assessment will start on July 15th. To handle the rapidly increasing number of cyber-attacks, Asgent’s “SecurityPlus Automatic Blocking・Design/Configuration Service” and security solutions will contribute to provide rapid response capabilities for public safety, and will protect valuable information assets.

※1 About SecurityPlus
The generic name for a group of services that provide the highest quality of security, including Asgent’s security knowhow gained over many years, at a reasonable price.
SecurityPlus provides all the necessary services that a company requires to maintain the highest level of security, including (1) Managed Security Services, (2) Security Diagnosis, (3) Forensic Security Investigations/Countermeasures, (4) ISMS and security audits, and countermeasures for (5) Social Engineering, which is common among all security breaches.

※2 Some cases may exist where SIEM cannot be used for automatic blocking. Please contact for further details.

【Sales Target】

■ Start of Sales:

July 15^th, 2015

■ Pricing:

\5,000,000〜　(1 core system, tax excl.)

■ Sales Target:

500 Million Yen/Initial Year

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