Cloud-based software reputation platform
Bit9 announces the first open, cloud-based reputation platform available to assess the trustworthiness of software. The Bit9 Global Software Registry (GSR) is now accessible via an open application programming interface (API) allowing the global cyber security community to easily integrate their solutions with the Bit9 GSR Platform.
The Bit9 Global Software Registry is the world’s largest and most complete authority on software, providing reputation ratings to help users identify, categorize, authenticate and trust software. The GSR, with its metadata for over 8 billion file records, delivers the threat and trust information needed to filter and stop the next generation of advanced threats.
The Bit9 GSR has become the foundation for a new stack of security technologies that are being deployed to defend against the Advanced Persistent Threat. New security sensors, Advanced Network Protection and Advanced Endpoint Protection, are being leveraged to identify infrastructure anomalies and generate contemporary security events that are then fed to a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution.
The SIEM combined with Bit9’s reputation service helps organizations correlate elusive threats on the network with stealth malware on the endpoint – correlating symptoms with root cause.
Many innovative organizations are currently utilizing the metadata provided by the Bit9 GSR including enterprise incident response teams, government agencies, antivirus threat research teams, security vendors, software asset management companies and forensic solutions providers.
Forensic companies are eager to integrate with the platform to shorten their investigation and incident response times by eliminating the known good software from their inquiries.
Threat research teams such as those at AVG employ the Bit9 GSR for proactive threat research.
“Open access to the Bit9 Global Software Registry helps us with our proactive threat research, allowing us to sift through large volumes of questionable software and concentrate on the malware, not the known good software,” said Karel Obluk, chief scientist at AVG.