BELMONT, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GreatHorn, the cybersecurity solution for cloud communication platforms, today announced GreatHorn Collaboration and Chat Security, expanding security controls for cloud systems such as Google Apps and Office 365 to also provide security operations, analytics, and reporting for Slack deployments.
The explosion of enterprise Slack adoptions has driven increased efficiency and collaboration for enterprises around the globe, but can also create a blind spot for security teams and an opportunity for enterprising attackers to expand their social engineering attacks from traditional spear phishing to the new frontier of highly collaborative chat programs. GreatHorn utilizes a massive data cloud comprised of hundreds of millions of uniquely identified threats to predict, prevent, detect and respond to highly-targeted, low-volume attacks.
“Hackers rarely target only one environment and GreatHorn empowers our team to secure our entire communication infrastructure with a powerful, flexible and automated solution,” noted Scott Schultz, Head of IT for Hired. “We are excited that GreatHorn will now protect against data loss, fraudulent financial transactions, or data loss through various third-party integrations and applications that integrate with Slack.”
Slack is the largest enterprise chat platform in the world today with more than 2.7 million daily active users that spend an average of 140 minutes per weekday on it. GreatHorn enables security teams to gain a holistic view of what Slack bots and apps are being utilized by employees, extend user and entity behavioral analytics and geographical login analysis to highlight internal accounts that may have been compromised and enforce corporate communication policies across both corporate chat and email accounts from a single unified dashboard. In conjunction with GreatHorn’s Inbound Email Security and Continuous Credential Monitoring solutions, this new offering natively integrates with Slack thereby offering enhanced security and visibility without impacting the use of any existing authentication or SSO Technology.
“Employees from almost every large enterprise are using collaborative chat software and it’s vitally important that the same foundational controls that we see put in place to safeguard other cloud communications platforms be extended to this new ecosystem,” said GreatHorn CEO and Co-Founder Kevin O’Brien. “GreatHorn can find even the most advanced threats, analyzing threat data around inbound message transmission routes, attack content and context, and advanced persistent threats that no other solution can see. As we’ve continued to experience explosive growth through the first half of 2016, the GreatHorn Data Cloud has become the premier resource for threat identification and, combined with the security automation workflows built into the platform, is able to protect a company’s employees and sensitive information in real time.”
GreatHorn is the only solution that can automatically detect and remediate targeted social engineering attacks from leading cloud-based communications systems including Microsoft 365, Google Apps and more. The cloud-native solution is up and running in under 10 minutes, and operates without any changes to mail routing, making it fully compatible with existing Security Email Gateways (SEGs) and Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solutions. Unlike training-focused programs or systems requiring users to self-report suspicious communications, GreatHorn finds and removes attacks without any change to end user behavior.
About GreatHorn
GreatHorn is the cybersecurity solution for cloud communication platforms. The company’s flagship product is the only solution that can automatically detect and remediate targeted social engineering attacks in today’s leading communication systems including Google Apps, Office 365 and Slack. With its proprietary dataset built from hundreds of millions of uniquely analyzed threats, GreatHorn combines the intelligence, fidelity, and precision necessary to prevent attacks from becoming breaches. For more information on the company, visit www.GreatHorn.com or you can follow GreatHorn on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
