Bit9

This morning, Bit9 announced the launch of Bit9 Parity Suite 6.0 - the latest version of our award-winning application whitelisting solution. Bit9 Parity Suite 6.0 provides advanced threat protection against targeted and zero-day attacks.

As evidenced in the recent Operation Aurora attacks, the threats companies face now are much more organized, deliberate, and covert than seen in past years. With the evolving threat environment, there is no choice but to change a company's approach to security. We believe that Application Whitelisting is a central part of the answer, the "foundational" layer of the security pyramid as Gartner explains it.

In our recent Bit9 Unauthorized Threat Report, we found that 99 percent of polled companies noted that antivirus was running on their computers, but 46 percent noticed malicious software had passed through that antivirus security layer. These weaknesses are being targeted explicitly by cybercriminals in hopes of attaining companies' confidential information through the holes left open by antivirus.

The most evident problems that customers have identified as putting their business and government environments at risk are the lack of properly enforced IT policies and the inadequate management and protection of systems. To address these problems, new features found in Bit9 Parity Suite 6.0 include:

File Integrity Monitoring - Bit9 Parity 6.0 continuously monitors, controls and reports on all changes that occur to help prevent malware from making unauthorized changes to sensitive files. Bit9's FIM capabilities provide PCI DSS compliance.

Registry Protection - Bit9 Parity 6.0 comes with out-of-box policies to secure high risk and targeted registry objects. Bit9 protects specific registry objects from unauthorized and malicious changes and helps demonstrate compliance.

Operating System Integrity - Bit9 provides operating system tamper protection, which prevents malicious hackers from harming the OS.

Threat Identification - Using the Bit9 Global Software Registry^TM, the largest repository of software intelligence, Bit9 provides a live software inventory of all software on organizations' endpoints at any given time. Bit9 provides a Trust Factor on all software and identifies all malware attempting to execute including the Advanced Persistent Threat. Bit9's live reports provide IT professionals with the ability to demonstrate when an advanced attack bypasses antivirus and is stopped by Application Whitelisting.

To learn more about Bit9 Parity Suite 6.0, visit our website here. Or if you want a free trial, sign up here.