Telecom Lead America: Damballa has launched Damballa CSP
1.7, a cyber threat solution for Internet service providers (ISPs) and
telecommunications providers.
The new solution is capable of detecting subscriber
malware infections by monitoring DNS traffic in the carrier’s network.
Damballa said this version of Damballa CSP incorporates
first-ever detection capabilities and support for IPV6.
Service providers are facing increasing pressure to
provide -clean pipes’ and to protect their subscribers from cyber crime that
threatens to steal customer credentials, commit fraudulent transactions, or
commandeer the subscriber device to launch DDoS or other cyber attacks,” said
Kirk Appelman, vice president, service provider solutions for Damballa.
Damballa claims that it is the only out-of-the-box
solution capable of detecting subscriber infections and threats by monitoring
DNS traffic.
By monitoring a carrier’s DNS traffic as a means to
detect criminal behavior, Damballa CSP represents a lightweight solution that
can protect millions of subscribers with a single appliance while posing no
risk of exposing any personally identifiable information (PII).
Damballa CSP identifies cyber threat activity on any type
of subscriber device including PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android and all mobile
and smartphone platforms.
Damballa CSP 1.7 offers important new threat detection
capabilities, which help communication service providers detect emerging cyber
threats weeks or months before the malware samples are first seen by the rest
of the security industry and long before traditional preventative security
solutions will have the signatures or blacklists they would need to detect the
infection.
With mounting consumer and government pressure to fight
cyber crime and develop an industry mitigation standard, representatives from
the FCC and leading ISPs jointly developed a voluntary code of conduct, which
provides a framework to help service providers address these threats and
ultimately protect U.S. consumers.
