Software For Security Is Not Enough, Behavior-Based Defense Is Changing That

Rampart provides application security that learns, powered by artificial intelligence

An industry report recently was published. Its title, “Securities Struggle in Scaling with Modern Development,” highlights the consensus in the security field right now. 

Lee Krause, CEO of Rampart AI™, says his goal is to give organizations an upper hand through smart security.

“When you give an application the tools to know what is correct behavior and react accordingly, you are giving an application the ability to run as expected, to defend with gusto, and to do so at any time day or night,” Krause said.

When added to an application's CI/CD pipeline, Rampart™ starts working right away to defend.

Of the security professionals surveyed for the industry report , 50 percent said that “Maintaining a strong security posture at the rate of my company's deployment velocity is challenging.”

The key word there is challenging. The challenge of keeping up with future security needs is a topic  Rampart AI™ discusses with industry leaders. Over the past couple of months, some of those conversations were turned into recorded discussions called Fast Chats. The consensus from those discussions is that, if security does not find a way to optimize and innovate, then attacks will continue to have the upper hand.

Sam Curry, CSO of Cybereason, pointed out during his latest fast chat with Rampart AI™, that more time is an asset in the security sector -- not only in development but also in defense.

“Our job is to effectively stop the bad guys sooner and faster and more completely and eventually predictively … and then eventually being able to waste their time,” Curry said. “If these are races, let's make them spend theirs in a futile way.”

For the future of application security, the best way to waste attackers’ time is not just by creating a honey pot.  Applications need to learn from attacks that were blocked. More information on an adversaries' methods means more insight into ways to protect your application.

Another stark statistic: Almost 83 percent of the industry report's respondents agreed that the increased rate of deployment is leading to an increase in previously remediated vulnerabilities being reintroduced. Learning from previously blocked attacks with a security solution like Rampart-AI™ means that reintroduced vulnerabilities will be emphatically blocked, just like new ones.

If the biggest issue in the security industry today is staying ahead of malware, fishing, and injections, then the best solutions are ones that continue to learn -- which means smart software solutions, not static ones

.Source: “Security’s Struggle in Scaling with Modern Development.” Waratek, 13 May 2022, https://resources.waratek.com/hubfs/resources/reports/Waratek%20Report_Securitys-Struggle-in-Scaling-with-Modern-Development.pdf?hsLang=en3.