IBM Unveils New Solution to Eliminate Insider Attacks

IBM Unveils New Solution to Eliminate Insider Attacks

IBM today announced a new fraud detection capability that monitors users’ online transactions for questionable activity. The new solution goes beyond today’s traditional identity verification procedures by analyzing users’ online behavior to help determine whether the actual use of the data is valid. This analysis can be done historically, tracking users’ past activity, or prospectively by comparing realtime behavior to normal patterns of activity.

According to the IBM Global Business Security Index released last month, “insider attacks” represent an emerging security threat for business. The CSI/FBI 2005 Computer Crime and Security Survey echoes these findings, indicating that 56 percent of organizations reported some level of security breach from within their organization.

The IBM Identity Risk and Identification Solution is designed to extend an organization’s online security measures beyond existing user verification processes to include session-based behavioral analysis. The solution combines the power of advanced analytics and visual data mining to assess deviations in behavior throughout a session by comparing access patterns exhibited by the user against prior sessions and against peer groups of similar users.

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