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Militus Inc. |
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February 13, 2017 Issue |
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CEOCFO MAGAZINE |
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Unified Security Analytics Manager Platform, A System that seamlessly Integrates the Latest in Cyber Security capabilities in order to provide a complete network traffic situational awareness and help to Protect Organizations from Advanced Malware and Persistent Threats |
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Chief Executive Officer
Militus Inc.
Interview conducted by: Lynn Fosse, Senior Editor, CEOCFO Magazine, Published – February 13, 2017
CEOCFO: Mr. Manley, according to your site, Militus has a different approach to address cyber threats. What is your take on how to accomplish this? Mr. Manley: We bring together best of breed technologies and wrap them with our proprietary analytics and algorithms. There are a lot of cyber security companies out there and a lot of different products and solutions. A customer could go to FireEye or Palo Alto Networks and get a product tailored to what they do, a lot of which is good stuff, but it is not complete. We survey the industry to bring the best products together, the best solutions, and put them into an system called the USAM™ (Unified Security Analytics Manager), which is on our website. We integrate it with proprietary algorithms so all the components talk to each other. Then we inject it with some military/intelligence grade technology that we license; as you have seen on the press release. Together, we bring the best solution possible to the market to do things like finding stealthy malware and advanced persistent threats. But I think most importantly, it gives the customer a complete situational awareness of their network as to its vulnerabilities. You can wait until you are hacked or breached to try to mitigate it or you can find the holes in your network early and take care of them.
CEOCFO: Do many companies understand the need for a more comprehensive approach? Mr. Manley: When I talk to people in the industry, especially larger companies; they say they are suffering from vendor overload. In other words, you have ten, twenty, or I talked to one that had thirty-two different types of security vendors that either had software, hardware and even incident response training, and it gets to be overload. What we are trying to do is bring as much as possible to a distinct integrated solution. We can bring the best of what is out there and if something better comes along, we can integrate it.
CEOCFO: How do you integrate it? Mr. Manley: We have really good engineers with direct experience. We were all at Boeing and most of us in its cyber security business, including the commercial cyber security business. We licensed the nSystem technology and we took the best of the Boeing cyber engineers and brought them together. Boeing built cyber security solutions, but any big company, not just Boeing, is not a great place for fast innovation. In other words, you have a lot of young engineers who want to build the latest and greatest cyber security tools, and big defense companies are sometimes not the best place to do it. We have a certified ethical hacker. This is his passion. He lives and dreams information security. Many times, the big company is not a place for him. However, we cut him loose here to survey and build the absolute best solution in the business. Then you can also attack it and see where its vulnerabilities are. Many big companies do not have this capability. Any time something better comes along, we can integrate it. We have a 1.0 version out now and we will have an additional release in Q2. What the customer gets is constant upgrades.
CEOCFO: How would you monitor the technologies you are using, to see if they still are up to date? Do you continually look at the technologies you have decided are best in class to see if they still are? Mr. Manley: The staff are constantly out there surveying the technology. You survey the industry online, you go to trade shows. There is a big one coming up in San Francisco, RSA, where everyone will be. Then for our hackers, there is Black Hat and DEFCON, where all the hackers get together. You have to stay on the bleeding edge to keep ahead of the hackers.
CEOCFO: How would a company that realizes they need help find Militus? How do you stand out? Mr. Manley: That is the challenge with a thousand cyber security companies and we are new. We have only been in business a couple of months. We already have our first customer who is in the business of providing managed security services and has looked at our technology and seen that it is unique. When you are small, you have to get to that tipping point where you do a few big assessments and the word spreads. Our initial offering is pretty straightforward. We are not going to come in and put a hole in your budget. We come in with our USAM system and evaluate your network. Within a week, at the most two, we will give you a complete report about your network, where its vulnerabilities are, what its strengths are, what you have to plug in terms of ports or old applications for example. If John in accounting is downloading stuff he should not be, we will see it and offer to help you to correct that. Companies with lots of data should be paranoid. You can wait or you can get a really good look at your network right now, which is what we do. The assessment is not that expensive.
CEOCFO: How do you help companies with the simple, obvious stuff like better passwords and not clicking on links in emails? Mr. Manley: There are companies that bring the entire organization in and start teaching them proper internet behavior. What we do is very discreet but our assessment would find those few people that have bad habits, that are downloading stuff they should not or running applications that are old or not compliant. It’s better than dragging the entire company into the auditorium. We are much more discreet. If there is a problem, we do offer, and we are very good at it, computer security incident response team training. If you take some of the famous hacks like Target, they had indications that something was wrong for quite a while before they acknowledged it and did something about it. The cost to Target in the long run was horrendous.
CEOCFO: Do you see some companies being uncomfortable with the fact that you can get down to the guy in accounting clicking indiscriminately? Do you think the big brother aspect may be a concern or is the security threat so overriding that people are not worried about that? Mr. Manley: I do not think you see the big brother aspect because you are not monitoring what he does. There are companies that do that. Everything on the employee’s computer is subject to monitoring. That is a whole other subject. What we are looking for are things that can cause damage to the network, things that can make you lose your data. We do not care about who is watching ESPN when they are supposed to be working. We are concerned about Bob downloading something that asks him to open an attachment, that subjects the entire network to an attack.
CEOCFO: Are you funded for what you would like to do to get Militus on the map and are you seeking investment or partnerships? Mr. Manley: We are seeking additional partnerships. We are a service disabled, veteran owned, small business. We would like partnerships with maybe some of the big players in the government space such as Lockheed Martin, Leidos, Raytheon and organizations like that who have big cyber contacts and would like to partner with a service disabled, veteran owned small business that has really good technology.
CEOCFO: Why pay attention to Militus? Mr. Manley: We offer a unique, best of breed cyber security solution along with our own military grade intelligence. We combine it all in a solution that will not only find malware and advanced persistent threats but will really let you understand your network. |
“We offer a unique, best of breed cyber security solution along with our own military grade intelligence. We combine it all in a solution that will not only find malware and advanced persistent threats but will really let you understand your network.”- Paul Manley
Militus Inc.
Contact: Paul Manley 949-825-7029
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