WATERLOO, ON – Verizon is adding BlackBerry Cylance's AI-driven antivirus security solutions to its Managed Security Services (MSS) portfolio.
The American wireless giant said Wednesday that CylanceProtect and CylanceOptics endpoint security products are now available for licensing and management through its MSS. CylanceProtect prevents ransomware, fileless attacks, and other unknown threats from executing on the endpoint before they can do harm, significantly reducing the number of alerts and amount of security data passed on to other security controls. CylanceOptics is the industry's first AI driven endpoint detection and response product, delivering on-demand threat hunting and automated response capabilities.
"Businesses of all sizes are suffering alert-fatigue generated by other endpoint solutions”, said co-founder of Cylance and president of BlackBerry Cylance, Stuart McClure, in the news release. “Many are turning to managed security services to gain holistic, expert-level management across their endpoints, gateways and networks on a round the clock basis. By offering BlackBerry Cylance's AI-powered endpoint protection, Verizon's MSS customers will now have access to a powerful antivirus technology with the ability to prevent known and unknown threats, reducing the strain on other security controls, and alerts that must be tracked, processed and audited."
In addition, BlackBerry Cylance's endpoint security intelligence is also used to power the Verizon Risk Report security assessment framework. The framework enables companies to make data-driven security decisions, identify security gaps and prioritize improvement actions, and focus security spend where it will have the most impact.
BlackBerry acquired California-based Cylance in November for $1.4 billion.
