BrightPoint's Sentinel Gives the Good Guys a Leg-Up in Cybersecurity

Cyber attacks have become an ever-increasing threat this year. It seems almost every month we would hear of another enterprise being breached. In fact, the F.B.I. now ranks cybercrime as one of its top law enforcement activities, with President Obama’s budget proposal for 2016 seeking $14 billion for cybersecurity efforts to better protect federal and private networks from hacking threats.

From the 37 million affected in the Ashley Madison hack to the millions of T-Mobile (News - Alert) customers affected by the Experian breach, organizations are on high alert when it comes to protecting their data. Something Anne Bonaparte, the President and CEO of BrightPoint Security has been battling for years.

Ms. Bonaparte recently sat down with TMC (News - Alert) at Silcon Valley Editor’s Day to share her insights, “Third party breaches in the digital supply chain are causing a whole number of breaches. We saw that recently with Experian and T-Mobile and Target (News - Alert), so when you think about any enterprise, they have a whole digital supply chain that they have business relationships with that they rely on everyday and unfortunately there aren’t effective security systems within the networks.”

That’s changing now thanks to BrightPoint’s latest product release, Sentinel, the industry’s first security platform to deliver threat intelligence sharing with granular policy controls to address the needs of security professionals overwhelmed with the deluge of threat data. With its enhanced Trusted Circles™, it extends controlled sharing to partner ecosystems, including business partners, supply chain and portfolio partners, in addition to ISACs and similar threat intelligence resources. This speeds identification of threats relevant to an organization and delivers actionable results and real benefits from sharing threat intelligence with business peers.

“People are recognizing, just like in your neighborhood with a neighborhood watch, together we can be safer,” said Ms. Bonaparte, and she believes what’s most compelling is that for the first time they’re able to get visibility behind the virtual perimeter of the supply chain, “Sentinel enables organizations to protect their digital supply chain and be able to not only raise the overall level of security but to also see the predictions, kind of a weather map, of how the threats are happening so you can take proactive, defensive measures.”