REDWOOD CITY, CA — (Marketwired) — 05/03/16 — Advanced malware protection provider Lastline, Inc. has been named the winner of the 2016 Cybersecurity Excellence Award for Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Detection for its Lastline Enterprise solution.
As the advanced malware detection technology that allows organizations to see what malware authors are doing and how they are evading more traditional forms of signature based controls, Lastline Enterprise is enabling organizations to stay a step ahead of cyber threats.
Lastline–s technology is widely understood to be superior: its high-resolution malware analysis engine analyzes each line of code, and provides a greater level of granularity and visibility into malware activity. In addition to direct availability, Lastline–s solutions are also delivered through highly respected partners such as Carbon Black and Dell SecureWorks. Thirteen Gartner Magic Quadrant leaders in their respective categories entrust their customers– advanced malware defense to Lastline, including several top Managed Security Services Providers (MSSPs), Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Secure Email Gateway (SEG) vendors.
“Congratulations to Lastline this recognition as the industry–s winner in the Advanced Persistent Threat Detection category of the 2016 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards,” said Holger Schulze, founder of the Information Security Community. “With over 430 entries, the awards are highly competitive and our winners reflect the very best in product innovation and excellence in the cybersecurity space.”
The Cybersecurity Excellence Award — along with just-announced Leader honors as highest ranking in the Forrester Wave Automated Malware Analysis, Q2 2016 report — are the latest recognitions for Lastline. The Company has received numerous security industry honors over the last year, including the Grand Trophy and seven other awards at the 12th Annual Info Security Products Guide–s Global Excellence Awards, held in conjunction with the 2016 RSA Conference. Lastline also is also the top performer in NSS Labs– 2015 Breach Detection Study, receiving a Commended rating.
The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognize excellence, innovation and leadership in information security, and are produced in cooperation with the Information Security Community on LinkedIn, tapping into the experience of more than 300,000 cybersecurity professionals to recognize the world–s best cybersecurity products, individuals and organizations.
“We are deeply honored to be recognized as the winner of the 2016 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, particularly because LinkedIn–s 300,000-member Information Security Community participated in the voting,” said Brian Laing, Vice President of Products and Business Development for Lastline. “This reflects the unique depth of our solution, the result of Lastline–s exceptionally deep roots in cybersecurity research with decades of combined academic and industry experience.”
For more details on the winners and finalists, see .
Lastline is innovating the way companies detect active breaches caused by advanced persistent threats, targeted attacks and evasive malware. Lastline–s Deep Content Inspection goes beyond the legacy malware analysis used in most firewalls, UTM–s, IPS systems, and antimalware software. Lastline–s open architecture integrates advanced threat defenses and intelligence into existing operational workflows and security systems. Inspection of suspicious objects occurs at scale in real-time using a full-system emulation approach to sandboxing that is superior to virtual machine-based and OS emulation techniques. Lastline–s technology correlates network and object analysis to achieve timely breach confirmation and incident response. Lastline was built by Anubis and Wepawet researchers and industry veterans with decades of experience focused specifically on advanced breach weaponry and tactics.
Headquartered in Redwood City, California with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia, Lastline–s platform is used by global managed security service providers, Global 2000 enterprises and leading security vendors worldwide. To learn more, visit .
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