Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing Detects Secrets and Keys for Applications Embedded in Unstructured Data in Data Repositories and Email/Messaging Applications
Concentric AI, a leading vendor of intelligent AI-based solutions for autonomous data security posture management (DSPM), announced the industry’s first deep-learning driven detection capabilities to find any type of hardcoded secrets and key credentials (e.g. API keys, encryption keys, tokens, passwords, etc.) in today’s most popular enterprise on-premise and cloud data repositories, as well as email and messaging applications.
As a result, these updates to Concentric AI’s Semantic Intelligence™ DSPM solution enable security teams to address risks to sensitive data by deleting this information and reducing the threat of malware attacks that can result in lateral movement and potential loss of sensitive data.
New capabilities such as Generative AI have made spear phishing attacks more sophisticated by making it easier to trick employees into clicking on harmful links or downloading malicious attachments, leaving enterprises more vulnerable to a compromise. Once malware and attackers successfully compromise a network, they can search for and discover secrets and keys for access to applications in vast amounts of unstructured data. Gaining access to secrets and keys to repositories including SharePoint, Google Drive, Github, SSH, S3, Box, BiTBucket, and Windows File Systems gives attackers access to sensitive IP such as source code, private client information, and critical financial data.
Uniquely utilizing Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP), Concentric AI’s Semantic Intelligence detects secrets and keys for a wide variety of applications embedded in unstructured data within today’s most popular on-premise and enterprise cloud data repositories, as well as email and messaging applications. This unique capability of being able to scan repositories and use NLP to identify secrets and keys without using static rules or fixed regex patterns is an industry first – organizations lack this ability today because detection of these secrets and keys embedded within data repositories is extremely difficult and it’s impossible to write rules or regex patterns to address this threat without significant false positives and negatives. The use of Deep Learning and NLP from Concentric AI allows for high fidelity detection with minimal false positives and negatives.
“Today Concentric AI is introducing a critical data security capability that is unmatched in the industry and important for all organizations as they work to prevent more advanced cybersecurity threats,” said Karthik Krishnan, Founder and CEO, Concentric AI. “Being the only company to leverage Deep Learning and NLP to address security issues of secrets and keys hidden in unstructured data gives Concentric AI the advantage in enabling organizations to prevent lateral movement of attackers and malware and ensure that sensitive data is protected. This is a huge win for all organizations with sensitive data in the battle to protect information from loss against sophisticated attacks.”
