<div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt" ><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt" ><div dir="ltr" ><div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >The IBM BigFix team are pleased to announce the release of<strong style="outline: none;" > Bigfix Detect.</strong></span></span></span></div>
<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" > </div>
<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >BigFix Detect extends the BigFix portfolio and aims to help security professionals of any company to quickly and effectively identify compromised devices or applications. You can also identify anomalous behaviors, analyze security exposures, and remediate them quickly.</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >The capabilities and value provided by IBM BigFix Detect can be grouped into the following main three categories:</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" ><strong style="outline: none;" ><span style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >Detect</span></span></span></strong></div>
<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >Leveraging behavioral anomaly detection, based on intelligence gathered from millions of endpoints worldwide, BigFix Detect identifies and alerts on advanced, evasive threats. In addition, BigFix Detect monitors for the existence of indicators of compromise (IOCs). </span></span></span></div>
<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >BigFix Detect supports importing external IOCs and IOC feeds in the following formats:</span></span></span></div>
<ul style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" > <li style="outline: none; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >Cyber Observable eXpression (CybOX)</span></span></li> <li style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX)</span></span></li></ul>
<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" ><strong style="outline: none;" ><span style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >Investigate</span></span></span></strong></div>
<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >To enable security professionals to understand the scope and context of a threat, BigFix Detect assists in the Incident Response process by providing recommendations for possible investigation paths.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >BigFix Detect records endpoint activity, providing search capabilities over the recorded data and traversing process trees.</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >In addition to historical search capabilities, BigFix Detect also enables the security professional to run ad hoc IOC evaluation queries.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" > </div>
<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" ><strong style="outline: none;" ><span style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >Respond</span></span></span></strong></div>
<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >BigFix Detect enables the user to contain and remediate attacks by suggesting relevant response actions in incident alerts and historical events. The user can then take an action directly from BigFix Detect.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >BigFix Detect supports the following response actions:</span></span></span></div>
<ul style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" > <li style="outline: none; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >Quarantine file: remove the selected file and place it in quarantine so that malicious activity is stopped.</span></span></li> <li style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >Kill process: kill a malicious process identified by BigFix Detect. </span></span></li> <li style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >Fix registry keys: update registry keys that have been modified by malicious activity identified by BigFix Detect .</span></span></li> <li style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >Apply patches: apply relevant available patches to selected devices or enterprise.</span></span></li> <li style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >Update software: update software packages for selected applications.</span></span></li> <li style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >Enable customized response to mitigate threat from patient zero and complete enterprise</span></span></li> <li style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background: white;" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >Ability to hunt with BigFix Query across enterprise in real time for key information and attributes on target endpoints</span></span></li></ul>
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<div style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background: white;" ><strong style="outline: none;" ><span style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" ><span style="outline: none; font-family: Arial;" ><span style="outline: none; font-size: 10.5pt;" >Documentation </span></span></span></strong></div>
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<div style="margin: 8px 0px;" ><b style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-size: 12pt;" ><span>Eamonn</span> <span>Larkin</span></b><br> <span style="font-size: 9pt;" >Software Development Manager, BigFix, Galway Lab, Ireland</span><br> <br> <span style="font-size: 9pt;" ><img alt="IBM" src="https://esl007.somerslab.ibm.com/img/gbs7.jpg" ></span></div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table>
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