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LMNTRIX was founded by Carlo Minassian, a cybersecurity entrepreneur with over twenty years in the industry. Carlo pioneered MSSP in Australia after seeing a need in the market that few did. He left a secure future with IBM to start a business in his bedroom. He and his team were so far ahead of the curve they struggled at first. Thirteen years later this company, earthwave, had become a Gartner magic quadrant leader and was sold to Dimension Data. Carlo embarked on the journey to globalize the service he had created.

What he discovered over the next three years amazed him. In fact, it really got him worried. On the front lines, engaging with hundreds of organizations worldwide, something was terribly wrong. Instead of getting more secure, companies and organizations were more vulnerable than ever.

What Carlo learned next is the reason LMNTRIX exists.

IT’S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY

Yahoo, Target, Sony, RSA, Ebay, Anthem, the US Military, Heartland, Dropbox, JP Morgan Chase, Home Depot, Linkedin, Adobe, the NSA, and a thousand others that shall remain un-named, were investing millions of dollars per annum on their cyber security programs. Many had security forces of hundreds of experts together with shiny SOC’s and the latest next generation sandboxes, firewalls, SIEM’s, EDR, you name it, but when it mattered . . . They. Just. Didn’t. Know.

TOO MANY ALARMS, TOO LITTLE TIME

How could this be? As Carlo travelled the world, he discovered that corporate cybersecurity teams were being defeated by a single enemy. It wasn’t the hackers — it was the noise.

All the companies reported one thing: alert fatigue. The shiny boxes and impressive solutions were great at producing alerts, but not so good at telling the signal from the static. Organization’s told Carlo they were receiving 300 or more alerts per month from their MSSP, but had no way to tell if the alerts were actual incidents. Their teams lacked the time or skills to respond. The result: alerts were ignored.

The boy had cried wolf too many times. Now the wolf was freely roaming these networks devouring whatever it wanted.

THE ACTION WAS ON THE INSIDE

But it wasn’t only alerts.

After a year of research that included surveying 350 companies across multiple regions and dozens of in-depth interviews, Carlo isolated three unmistakable facts at the heart of the problem:

1. Alert Fatigue. Only one percent of all attacks are detected through logs. This is an astounding number and SIEM has proven to be a particular failure. Interviews with IT teams delivered this frustrated indictment of SIEM: “Stupidly Irrelevant Electronic Messaging” (actually they called it something a whole lot worse, but we’re too polite to say that here). They said SIEMs produced too many alarms. MSSPs aren’t doing much better for those who depend on them. Even medium-sized organizations can receive as many as 200-300 alerts per month from their MSSP and are then left with no idea what to do with them. The result is that alarms drone on while hackers roam free.

2. Lack of Breach Validation. The hackers roam free because companies have no way to confirm if these alerts are actual incidents. It is too time consuming and costly to investigate, and their security teams lack skills to respond to advanced threats. Imagine being told by the police that someone may have broken into your house but it was up to you to investigate further that’s the situation most companies are in – it’s wrong and needs to be fixed.

3. Fortress Mentality. Even though it should be clear by now that hackers are in the inside, organizations cling to the illusion that cyber security means keeping bad things out. This is about cyber-purity not true cybersecurity. It is a dangerous fantasy that does not reflect the inevitability of cyber intrusion. By holding onto it organizations are unable to respond properly to threats. This mentality is why Gartner is correct in saying the current blocking and prevention techniques are failing, and cybersecurity spending is incorrectly skewed.

So what did these three facts really mean? They meant almost everyone had things inside out.

With the median number of days before a breach was detected at 229 and 67% of companies only learning of a breach when an external entity told them, it was obvious that organizations had to make a mental shift.

They needed to stop fixating on the perimeter and start looking at their network more like an obstacle course where hackers could be deceived, worn down, paralyzed and ultimately thwarted. You protect what matters; they go away empty handed. This was about changing the economics of hacking. Make the cost of the hack impossible for the hackers to justify and you win.

ACTIVE DEFENSE IS BORN

When you make this fundamental shift in thinking, you start to think differently about how to detect and respond to threats. So at LMNTRIX we shift your security mindset from “incident response” to “continuous response,” wherein systems are assumed to be compromised and require continuous monitoring and remediation.

By thinking like the attacker and hunting on your network and your systems, we allow you to move from being the prey to being the hunter. We then turn the tables on the attackers and change the economics of cyber defense by shifting the cost to the attacker by weaving a deceptive layer over your entire network – every endpoint, server and network component is coated with deceptions. From the instant an attacker penetrates your network, all they can see is an elusive mirage where every single data packet is unreliable. This deceptive environment immobilizes attackers as they are unable to make decisions if the data they’ve gathered is unreliable.

The LMNTRIX Active Defense is a validated and integrated threat detection and response architecture for addressing advanced and unknown threats that bypass an organizations perimeter controls.

We use a combination of advanced network and endpoint threat detection, deceptions everywhere, analytics and global threat intelligence technology. These are complemented with continuous monitoring together with threat hunting both internally as well as on the deep and dark web. It is a fully managed, security analyst delivered service that defends against zero-day attacks, and advanced persistent threats from our cyber defense center, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

GREAT SECURITY DOESN’T HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE

Sometimes cheaper really is better. Carlo realized the secret that the cybersecurity industry didn’t want anyone to hear is this: cybersecurity doesn’t need to be expensive to be effective. Vendors charge a lot because they can (how better to offset the huge marketing costs that promise the next cybersecurity silver bullet?).

Carlo didn’t want LMNTRIX to join that crowd, he wanted to sell cyber outcomes not cyber sizzle. That’s why LMNTRIX runs smart. We hunt where it’s quiet, we protect what matters, we use our wits not your pocketbook to deliver genuine protection. We believe you deserve better results, fewer excuses, and the right not to throw your money away because an industry said you must.

YOU ARE PART OF OUR MISSION

We do cybersecurity differently. We’re not vendors trying to upsell or consultants hocking advice, we are your cyber bodyguards, outfoxing your potential assailants and keeping what matters safe.

This is a mission that will not only help make you secure and save you money doing it, but will help make everyone safer because by working together we become stronger and more effective. We live in a digital world. What happens on our networks has consequences in our communities. Cyber is simply too important to do alone.

Join us on a journey beyond excuses and into true cybersecurity where the ones being worn down and defeated are the hackers, not us.

Yours In CyberCertainty,

Team LMNTRIX

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