Η Kaspersky Lab announced its global availability Kaspersky Threat Lookup – the intelligence service security aims to improve the handling of cyber breach incidents and forensic investigation of cyber security by businesses.
The Kaspersky Threat Lookup provides access to many petabytes world-wide security data, updated almost in real time. 
This always-on online service helps businesses properly analyze digital data in light of a cyber security breach and gain the insights they need to accelerate detection and restoring their system.
According to the survey results, with more 4.000 business representatives from around the world, conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, 2016, time is the most critical factor in detecting and responding to a security incident.
According to the research findings, if businesses are unable to detect a security breach immediately, they will pay more than 100% of the cost of remediating the damage compared to what they would have paid if the threat had been detected and addressed sooner. The average cost to remediate a breach that goes undetected for a week or more exceeds US$1 million, while mitigating incidents that are detected immediately can cost as much as US$400.000, nearly half of overall industry average. Detection and response are some of the most time-critical activities in the day layout of security operations centers (SOCs) in organizations worldwide and require both two reliable information security and information control.
Kaspersky Threat Lookup Accelerated incident handling
Kaspersky Threat Lookup is the ideal solution for IT departments that deal with corporate security to speed up incident handling and forensic internet control.
Once suspicious markers such as IP addresses, URLs, or file fragmentation are detected by an IT security officer, they can be imported into the service's web interface. In return, users have substantial and structured information about a potential threat, and their system offers them world-class ideas and solutions that help identify a targeted attack that is under way.
Kaspersky Lab security information is collected from various sources, including the Kaspersky Lab security net cloud, spam traps, botnet tracking initiatives, and web crawlers. More importantly, the data is continuously cross-referenced by the Kaspersky Lab research team itself and is automatically correlated.
The solution offers corporate security executives the ability to contextual intelligence. This allows them to quickly explore the source of the problem, to distinguish potential malicious actions from the non-dangerous, as well as to obtain data for the rapid and effective investigation of each incident. Overall, Kaspersky Threat Lookup allows SOC security system operators to set priorities and act effectively in the typical scenario of hundreds of thousands of alerts they receive daily.
Kaspersky Threat Lookup provides businesses with the same level of information that Kaspersky Lab experts use to analyze the most sophisticated threats and includes compromise indicators for these new attacks. The solution has the ability to match data obtained during the investigation, thanks to the vast knowledge of malicious objects, as well as access to one of the largest "clean" databases that are part of the service Kaspersky Whitelist. It is worth noting that one of the first organizations to have adopted Kaspersky Threat Lookup was INTERPOL. Kaspersky Lab provides timely and valid access to information about threats to an organization as defined by sharing know-how agreement in order to contribute to the investigation of cybercrime.
Veniamin Levtsov, Vice President, Enterprise Business of Kaspersky Lab, comments: "2016, we quickly expanded our range of Internet Threat Intelligence Services, including features Threat Data Feeds, to provide businesses with the "tangible" information needed to detect and respond to threats more quickly. However, in order to significantly reduce rehabilitation costs, businesses need to improve detection along with ways of dealing with and the possibilities of investigation against digital criminals. That is, they should understand the extent of the problem, identify the source of the security incident and gather the necessary information to mitigate the threat. The portal Kaspersky Threat Lookup is an important addition to the Family of Security Intelligence Services that is directly addressing these challenges. It provides instant access to threatening information Kaspersky Lab directly from sources cloud and contains detailed information about requests for recovering damaged files, address URL ή IP».
More information about services Threat Lookup of Kaspersky Lab you can find on the website Security market Services the company's. More details are available at a detailed description of the services (PDF).
