October 13, 2021
The Consulting Services team at BSI has announced a new partnership with WootCloud, providers of the HyperContext Device Security Platform, which will equip BSI clients with critical visibility into network operations and security with a focus on providing managed and unmanaged device and infrastructure behavioral context, and intelligent analysis for fine-grained alerting and remediation around indicators of compromise.
By leveraging emerging innovative technology alliances with next-generation platforms like WootCloud, BSI are expanding their service capabilities to support clients globally. With this new partnership, clients can avail of an advanced, award-winning AI/ML platform that provides device identification, classification, and modelling abilities that ensure 100 per cent device visibility, deep context, and automated threat remediation at scale. WootCloud’s HyperContext analyzes threats and implements active responses immediately that help eliminate information security threats.
Commenting on the partnership, Mark Brown, Global Managing Director - Cybersecurity and Information Resilience, Consulting Services at BSI, said: “Partnering with WootCloud, means that we are offering clients greater visibility of all devices trying to access their organization’s network. By using this system, BSI expert consultants are providing our clients with a solution that contextualizes behavior against baselines and provides accurate threat analysis and remediation. By implementing these solutions, organizations can easily discover gaps in their overall risk posture, act on the opportunity to close those gaps automatically, and tighten security controls around access and micro segmentation as they are identified with the support of our team.”
Amit Srivastav, CEO, WootCloud said: “We’re excited to partner with the team at BSI and we are looking forward to helping the company’s clients get ahead of network operations and security gaps to achieve a holistic security posture. Outside of this core use case, our joint customers will also be able to supercharge their asset management and network segmentation abilities. Today, customers across a wide range of industry verticals already leverage our HyperContext Platform. Together, BSI and WootCloud will deliver robust solutions that address complex operational and security challenges for BSI clients in light of IoT proliferation, prolonged work from home, and 5G growth.”
The Consulting Services team at BSI provides an expansive range of solutions to help organizations address challenges in cybersecurity, information management and privacy, security awareness and compliance. For more information visit Cybersecurity Information Resilience | BSI America (bsigroup.com).
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About BSI
BSI is the business improvement and standards company that enables organizations to turn standards of best practice into habits of excellence, ‘inspiring trust for a more resilient world’. For over a century BSI has driven best practice in organizations around the world. Working with over 77,500 clients across 195 countries, it is a truly global business with skills and experience across all sectors including automotive, aerospace, built environment, food and retail and healthcare. Through its expertise in Standards and Knowledge, Assurance Services, Regulatory Services and Consulting Services, BSI helps clients to improve their performance, grow sustainably, manage risk and ultimately become more resilient.
To learn more, please visit: www.bsigroup.com.
About BSI’s Consulting Services
BSI’s Consulting Services for Cybersecurity and Information Resilience manages and secures corporate information for BSI’s global clients.
About WootCloud’s HyperContext Security Platform
An AI based, agent-less solution, WootCloud’s award-winning Hyper-Context Security Platform provides contextualized visibility and analytics for all devices, and uses this intelligence to segment the network, correlate threats and vulnerability propagation across interfaces and automate access control. Capabilities include:
- Advanced device identification, classification, and modeling abilities to ensure 100% device visibility which leads to an accurate threat analysis and assessment of risks that a device poses to the organization. Accurate identification leads to improved efficiency in remediation.
- Greater device intelligence coupled with higher accuracy in threat and risk assessment to provide actionable intelligence for Incident and Problem management in the ITIL framework.
- The ability to supercharge network operations, delivering an integrated product offering with industry leading partners, to provide next-generation access control and network micro-segmentation capabilities.
About WootCloud
WootCloud is the only smart device security platform that uncovers unmanaged devices on both the radio and network spectrum and analyzes hundreds of device parameters to generate unique device risk scores. This helps organizations discover gaps in their overall risk posture and delivers the opportunity to close these gaps and tighten security controls.
A privately held company, WootCloud is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in India and Argentina. For more information, visit their website.
