EDITOR’S AISA NATIONAL CONFERENCE TAKEAWAY’S This year’s AISA National Conference in Sydney presented a who’s who of vendors, and an international line-up of keynotes, including best-selling author and security expert, Bruce Schneier. It is no surprise that the event sold out. AISA has firmly planted itself as holding cyber security conferences not to be missed. Well done to Arno Brok and the team on an increasingly impressive event. Later this month we will be in Perth for the AISA WA Conference.
As our 2016 My Security Media lead partner, Huntsman was appropriately a centre piece outside the main theatre with a display of their safe automation and real time analytics platform. Huntsman’s focus over the last 12 months has been on promoting next generation SIEM technology. Michael Warnock, Director of Sales correctly pointed out that legacy systems just haven’t delivered on the promise of delivering a security eco-system to the necessary level. The challenge remains the emergence of the Internet of Things and the numerous solutions on offer, from the end point to SIEM, but there remains a lack of time and skilled resources on SOC teams, which are already being stretched. Huntsman’s SOC platform gives a greater correlation between events, removing any false positive alarm events and giving the customer the ability to automate. Moving from established manual controls to system automation is a big step but this platform promises to take a detected or suspected threat straight to a safe place and for sandboxing. Threats could be a piece of malware or it could be an internal person’s mischievous behaviour. The Huntsman system allows the SOC team
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AISA Opening Presentation with Adrian Turner, Cyber Security Growth Centre
to start hunting in proactive investigations against targeted and highest priority attacks, as opposed to just being reactive. The evolution has been towards high speed processing and automation. The platform also incorporates machine learning traditional SIEM, real time threat intelligence module, in the form of behaviour anomaly detection (BAD), which has been applying an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based patent for the last 8 years. Huntsman has two products, one for the Managed Security Service Provider (MSS) and a Cloud Edition. As Sales Director, Michael’s focus is expanding enterprise awareness, “we find that a majority of the large enterprise clients, such as the top 50 -100 Australian organisations are quite ‘cyber-security’ mature but those below this level are definitely behind and we see as being our commercial sweet spot.” Huntsman is experiencing year on year growth, not just in Australia but throughout Asia. With responsibilities across Asia, Michael Warnock has also managed the growth across APAC, with deals such as with SMART Communications, a leading telco in the Philippines and reports in Japan of massive sales growth. Huntsman’s UK Operations are soon to be announcing a key partnership with a very large MSSP to take the product to Europe and this activity is also
opening doors into the US market. Singapore is also a key APAC location for the company and they are working closely with the likes of Microsoft and Cisco on further developing the Cloud platform and have been selected by Microsoft to participate in the Smart Cities Road Show, rolling out later this month. As an Australian based company, established in 1999 Huntsman remains proud to have serviced their first customer, the Department of Defence since 2003. Huntsman has progressed to have a leading positon in the market and is now enabling customers to consume security as a pure service. The Huntsman platform is moving from a subscription based model to a utility model, being a pricing model based on per terabyte of log data. As Michael proudly proclaims, “we’re highly competitive and this technology is our own”. You’ll have a chance to check out the Huntsman platform at the upcoming Microsoft Smart Cities Road Show and AISA’s Perth Conference, 25 November 2016.
TANIUM Tanium was making a debut at AISA with its single server, patented technology platform which creates a linear chain of computers across the network. Using a system agnostic tool to extract all network data points