RSA Live July 2014 Content Announcement

[ChristinaJasins]

We are pleased to announce the release of our July Content pack for RSA Live! This release continues last month’s focus on providing “at-a-glance” situational awareness.  It also expands on our ability to detect both sensitive data leaving the network and potentially dangerous executable payload.

Reporting capabilities are introduced focusing on enabling our customers to detect suspicious mail traffic patterns commonly associated with Phishing attempts. And lastly we have a released a new parser designed to identify common HTML-based threat indicators. 

The above is a subset of the threat detection content were are quietly building behind the scenes to accompany our upcoming 10.4 release of Security Analytics and helps set the stage for providing the most advanced threat detection capability on the market today.

Detection of Data Exfiltration

• New application rules for detecting sensitive data leaving the network via unknown protocols as well as common protocols not normally associated with files transfers.

  Expanded Reporting

• Introduction of the Phishing Profile report. This report summarizes data relevant to identifying phishing attempts in the customer environment. In particular it summarizes HREF header mismatches, mail traffic from top countries by frequency, top email subjects, top email addresses by frequency, and top file extension of attachments by frequency.
• Enhancing situational awareness are new two reports:
  • Top Communicants Report:  allows the customer to immediately see the top talkers on their network by country, domain, inbound protocol and outbound protocol.
  • Executables Report: presents instances of all executables detected on wire. This report is broken into four sections: Executables by Domain, Country, Abnormal executables - Suspicious and Abnormal executables -Warning.

  Enhanced Threat Detection

• A new LUA parser called “HTML_threat”. This parser is designed to detect common HTML threat indicators like hidden frames and embedded objects within a web page.  

Additional Log Support

• We’ve created support for two new log sources as well as provided updates to 30 of our existing log sources.