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INTRUSION Completes Beta Testing of Shield Cybersecurity Solution

Cybersecurity solutions firm INTRUSION has wrapped up beta testing of its Shield offering, a real-time, AI-based cybersecurity solution that utilizes a cloud of databases to track and research cybercrime activities.

The offering — whose AI uses the databases to kill known threats and learn the behaviors of both safe and malicious network traffic — is now available for purchase.

During testing, Shield stopped a total of 77.5 million,801 cyberthreats from 805,110 uniquely malicious entities, attempting to breach 13 companies that participated in the 90-day beta program, INTRUSION said.

“With the high-risk patterns we’ve incorporated into the rule set that feeds our AI, along with the reputation and suspicious activity that it searches for while monitoring all traffic in and out of a network, we can confidently say Shield would have protected our customers where clearly other security approaches failed,” said Jack B. Blount, president and CEO of INTRUSION. “The malware had been living on the SolarWinds network for at least nine months undetected – it got past firewalls and many other cybersecurity products.

“This is all the more reason companies need a multi-layered approach to cybersecurity, and specifically one that stops threats in real-time to protect them from the damage cybercriminals can cause over time.”

Shield works by automatically identifying all attempted malware connections coming into, living on, and going out of any network, and stops them without human intervention, the company said. INTRUSION touts Shield as the first solution for the enterprise that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to not only identify malicious activity within a network but to kill the connection, thus stopping those threats in their tracks, protecting companies from debilitating cybercrime.”

“This product just does not exist in the market today and is sorely needed,” said Aaron Goodwin, CISCO for B. Riley Financial, one of the companies that participated in beta testing.

During beta testing, Shield continuously protect involved companies from ransomware, denial of service attacks, malware, data theft, phishing and more, INTRUSION said, which concluded that Shield would have defended against the Sunburst malware that was at the center of recent cyberattacks involving SolarWinds and FireEye, impacting government agencies and approximately 18,000 SolarWinds customers.

INTRUSION said all the companies that participated in the beta program will move forward with Shield in production.

“Businesses simply can’t afford to keep using the same cybersecurity solutions that aren’t adequately protecting them,” Blount said. “As shown by our beta testing results, Shield offers the best new layer of protection to keep businesses of all sizes safe from the cybercrime that causes hundreds of them to go out of business completely.”