Cybersecurity company Symantec has entered into an agreement to acquire Israel-based Fireglass, a developer of an agentless isolation solution that eliminates ransomware, malware, and phishing threats in real time by preventing potentially harmful content from ever reaching user endpoints or the corporate network. With this acquisition, Symantec aims to further strengthen its secure web gateway and email protection delivered both on premises and in the cloud.
Fireglass’ approach to browser isolation is designed to substantially reduce the attack surface, strengthening a business’ security posture, and as a result, reduces the burden on the company’s security operation center (SOC) and IT help desk. According to the company, users are protected regardless of the links they click or the uncategorized websites they visit, as all potentially harmful website and email content and attachments are executed within a fully protected and separate environment. Delivered as a cloud service, on premises or in a hybrid model, Fireglass boasts a transparent and worry-free end user experience, with customers reporting a reduction in problem tickets and the resulting workload of the security team.
“Integrating Fireglass’ isolation technology with Symantec’s existing endpoint, email, and secure web gateway solutions could reduce security events by as much as 70 percent, while virtually eliminating advanced threats spread by web browsing or email content. Isolation will become a core component in the design of cyber defense architectures for the cloud generation who face the reality of an encrypted Internet and the crisis inherent in email and web-delivered attacks. The ability for the security team to take an aggressive stance on unknown websites and questionable attachments without causing chaos for a company’s users and IT help desk is now a reality. Isolation is a key element of securing the cloud generation and is even a productivity gain for both the end user and security operations center,” says Greg Clark, CEO Symantec.
Symantec expects to close the deal with Fireglass in Q3 2017.
