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Last year the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued a statement to notify financial institutions about the growing trend of cyber attacks designed to steal online credentials. While this is certainly a big issue for banks and credit unions, concern about stolen credentials extends far beyond the financial services industry. Basically any organization with valuable data is at risk of an attack initiated with seemingly legitimate credentials.
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Startup Cybric is working on a cloud-based platform to help businesses find out about breaches quickly and clean them up as fast as possible.
It will do that with its platform, Continuous Security Delivery Fabric that creates a clone of network elements in its cloud and runs tests against them looking for vulnerabilities. Because the work is done in the cloud, it doesn’t slow down or interfere with the business’s production network, the company says.
Because multiple tests can be run in parallel in the cloud, the time it takes to find vulnerabilities is reduced, the company says. Alternatively, customers can run the Continuous Security Delivery Fabric on premises.
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