Channel-friendly cybersecurity specialist TrapX is accelerating its global expansion with the opening of a new Hong Kong office, which partners can leverage to deliver the TrapX deception-based security platform to a broader Asia Pacific audience.
“Global Fortune 1000 enterprises are spending a lot of money today on perimeter network security solutions, but the bad actors continue to infiltrate,” said Carl Wright, general manager with TrapX Security. “The massive escalation of data breaches is not limited to just the United States, this is a global issue and requires enterprises within every vertical to rethink existing cyber defense strategies. We are already seeing accelerated adoption for deception-based technologies in the U.S. and Latin America, and we believe Asia Pacific is the next region to benefit.”
Deception-based network security enables customers to rapidly isolate, fingerprint and disable new zero day attacks in real-time, via automated insight into malware and malicious activity. The technology works by using dummy computers and fake data to trick hackers into believing they are actually inside a corporate asset, when in reality they are far from it.
Unlike network security solutions today that monitor traffic in and out of a network, deception technology works inside the network by monitoring lateral traffic. When a hacker has actually penetrated a company’s main defenses, their next step is to figure out where they are in their target’s network and look for valuable corporate data. That is where deception technology?fake IT infrastructure commingled with real corporate IT assets on the same network?springs into action.
