LAS VEGAS and TEL-AVIV, Israel, Dec. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The City of Las Vegas has selected BitDam's Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) solution to support its ongoing endeavors in protecting its organization from cyber attacks. With 95% of content-borne cyber attacks being delivered via sharing and collaboration, the City of Las Vegas adopted BitDam's technology, which demonstrates unparalleled detection rates of email-borne attacks, to ensure the organization is secure.
"The Advanced Threat Detection solution enables us to significantly reduce our exposure to content-borne cyber attacks," said Michael Lee Sherwood, Director, Information Technologies, City of Las Vegas, "With attackers becoming more sophisticated, new approaches need to be undertaken to ensure cyber security. We deployed Advanced Threat Detection on top of other secure email gateway products that we have in place as it allows us to detect a wide range of threats."
"We are thrilled to work with the City of Las Vegas, which proves again that it takes proactive steps to ensure protection from cyber attacks. Current secure email gateway solutions detect malicious emails to some extent but are relatively easy to bypass. Based on a completely new approach, our solution blocks unknown and advanced attacks that would otherwise go undetected," said Liron Barak, BitDam's Co-Founder and CEO. "I am confident that the City of Las Vegas will be much more secure leveraging BitDam's unique technology."
BitDam's cloud-based solution proactively detects and blocks known and unknown content-borne attacks, pre-delivery. Its unique attack-agnostic technology increases detection rates by up to ten times compared with other solutions in the market.
The solution integrates with leading email platforms including Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, Google G Suite and all web-based emails.
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About BitDam
BitDam cyber security blocks advanced content-borne attacks across all enterprise communication channels, empowering organizations to collaborate safely. Our cloud-based solution proactively detects attacks, pre-delivery, preventing hardware and logical exploits, ransomware, spear-phishing and Zero-Day attacks contained in files and/or URLs. BitDam's detection rates are unmatched by other technologies.
Current cybersecurity products provide limited protection as they are based on knowledge of previous attacks. BitDam's unique attack-agnostic technology enables it to provide better protection. BitDam learns the normal code-level executions of business applications such as MS-Word and Acrobat Reader. Based on this whitelist, BitDam determines whether a given file or weblink is malicious or not, regardless of the specific attack it may contain.BitDam ATP for email is used by leading organizations in Europe and the US, with proven record of detecting threats that other security solutions fail to uncover.
The company was founded by veterans of an elite cyber unit of the Israeli Intelligence Forces with a strong background in the area of offensive cyber.
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