BAE Systems Detica is hoping to bring Government-level cyber defence to businesses, after launching a service with techniques used to protect nation states and fight organised crime.
Detica Treidan has been designed to protect against the highly sophisticated and targeted threats facing, or even created by, foreign governments.
A recent Symantec report indicated targeted attacks on businesses are likely to increase this year.
The Detica service, launched during the InfoSecurity 2011 conference being held in London this week, employs behavioural analysis based on large-scale compute cloud technology to help detect possible threats.
A team of Detica experts will look at threats for businesses to determine how to prevent a compromise, looking at attacker behaviour patterns.
Users will also be able to take advantage of remediation planning offered by Detica to address the vulnerabilities exploited during attacks to shore up the network.
Army tactics in business
Barry Hensley, senior director of Dell SecureWorks' counter threat unit and one-time employee of the US Department of Defence, said there were a number of similarities which could be drawn between the commercial and defence sectors when it comes to cyber security.
"The same processes exist between the two worlds," Hensley told IT PRO.
"The same constructs [are] associated with the need to protect, and when protection fails the ability to detect, respond, analyse and defend, exist. That lifecycle in both worlds [is very similar]."
He said it was vital organistions from both sectors understand what assets they own so they know the risk profile associated with them and can develop a strategy to focus on the most important areas first.
"That's no different in the Department of Defence," he added. "They're going to go through and understand the assets they need to protect, they're going to determine which ones are the most critical and then they're going to put the most resources associated with critical assets that are out there."
"So the constructs are almost identical."
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