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Case Study

Executive Summary

Industry Mass Media

Company A national media company serving a global audience

Description Media organization focused on providing business news

Challenge Provide protection against advanced threats that elude standard virusprotection systems

Solution Lastline Enterprise Hosted

Results Fill void in security portfolio and protect both company and user base from advanced persistent threats, zero-day attacks, and evasive malware

Lastline truly distinguished themselves from other vendors in the market with their forward-thinking approach to malware protection.

Media Conglomerate Chooses Lastline For Advanced Malware Protection

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www.lastline.com

Copyright © 2014 Lastline, Inc.Media Case Study —7/7/14

Corporate Headquarters203 Redwood Shores Parkway, Suite 620Redwood City, CA 94065

Americas: +1 (805) 456 7075EMEA: +44 (0) 207 749 5156APAC: +65 6829 2207 2 of 2

The Challenge

“Our biggest security challenge is finding the right balance between freedom of access and total lock-down. As a large media and technology company our user base expects complete freedom, so providing them access to the Internet of Things safely is a big and evolving challenge.”

When leadership began to realize that standard virus protection was no longer a strong enough solution to protect their corporate network and user devices from zero-day exploits, polymorphic viruses, and evasive malware, they began searching for an advanced malware protection solution.

The Solution

“Lastline truly distinguished themselves from other vendors in the market with their forward-thinking approach to malware protection. They’ve provided a non-obvious solution to an obvious threat, by embracing that most attacks are socially engineered and no solution should rely on signature detection.”

Security teams at this organization considered a number of options, including FireEye, before selecting Lastline’s software platform. They chose Lastline because it exceeded all of the strict requirements that had been decided upon for network protection:

• The Freedom of Software Lastline’s flexible software-based architecture uniquely enables organizations to implement anti-malware protection in a way that makes sense given existing security infrastructures. This organization needed a solution that was not only simple to install and maintain — it also had to enable them to scale protection without incurring the prohibitive cost of additional proprietary hardware. Deployed on commodity hardware or in virtual environments and priced per user, Lastline’s solution afforded the ability to cover the total network footprint.

• Actionable Threat Intelligence Detection is only half the battle — what happens in the critical moments following makes the difference between successful remediation or a disastrous breach. Our customer was adamant about finding the solution that best enabled their internal security team to act swiftly in the event of an attack. Lastline’s solution uniquely provides the ability to link together the various steps involved in the compromise of an internal endpoint. This actionable intelligence results in lower incident response times and a hugely reduced risk of disaster scenarios.

“The administrative user interface is clear and responsive. The Dashboard view provides an immediate snapshot of the sensors status while the Console and Events features provide as much or as little information as the operator needs.”

• Full-System Emulation for Superior Detection The feature they liked most about the product was its ability to extract objects on-the-fly from web traffic/downloads and e-mail attachments, install them in a virtual sandbox, and accelerate the lifecycle of the object.

“This method identifies in seconds what may take place over weeks in real-time, what that object would do to the local filesystem, and to which any command-control hosts it would eventually attempt to communicate.”

The Results

Within hours of operation, Lastline alerted the media organization’s corporate IT team of at-risk hosts that were active on the network. The team was able to respond to the threats before they were able to do any damage. The company can now rest assured knowing their users and their own corporate assets have another layer of defense shielding them from advanced persistent threats, zero-day attacks, and evasive malware.

Superior Protection, Simple to Try OutWhen choosing Lastline, you gain access to a sophisticated set of tools designed specifically to combat today and tomorrow’s most advanced threats.

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