Morphisec Recognized as a Sample Vendor in Gartner® Emerging Tech: Security – Emergence Cycle for Automat – Benzinga

Automated Moving Target Defense Technology is Proven to Stop Unknown Attacks Missed by Antivirus and Detection and Response Technologies

BOSTON and BEER-SHEVA, Israel , June 12, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Morphisec, the world’s leading provider of prevention-first endpoint security software, today announced its recognition as a sample vendor in Gartner Emerging Tech: Security — Emergence Cycle for Automated Moving Target Defense[1]. Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD) technologies use polymorphism to move, change, obfuscate or morph attack surfaces to disrupt adversary cyber kill chains.

Threat actors have evolved and use complex and undetectable threat tactics like fileless, in-memory and zero-days, exploits and other evasive techniques to bypass traditional security controls and detection and response technologies, increasing breach risk and fuelling alert fatigue. Organizations rely on reactive detection and response for threat defense, however AMTD technologies are key to proactively combat advanced attacks and achieve breach prevention.

“Adversaries are constantly refining attack tools and techniques to evade popular defense technologies,” said Michael Gorelik, Chief Technology Officer at Morphisec. “True protection comes with a prevention-first mindset — hidden operating systems and application targets are more expensive, time intensive and challenging for attackers to exploit.”

Morphisec’s prevention-first security (powered by AMTD) uses a patented zero-trust at-execution technology to proactively block evasive attacks. As an application loads to memory space, the platform’s three-step prevention process uses its AMTD technology to morph and conceal process structures, protecting code memory and uses lightweight skeleton traps to deceive attackers. Unable to access original resources, malicious code injection fails, thereby stopping and logging attacks with full forensic details.

According to the Gartner report, “By utilizing polymorphism within code and within runtime or OS environments, a threat actor quickly loses its ability to predict stored memory variables and memory scanning techniques used for exploitation within memory structures (the heap or stack). This AMTD technique can be effective at thwarting the execution of common software vulnerabilities and exposures.”

“Static defenses, standard security controls and even Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) can’t catch today’s evasive threats, especially if lateral movement within a business network has been established,” said Gorelik. “Morphisec AMTD technology complements the tools that teams use today — it boosts capabilities and hardens the overall attack surface using defense-in-depth capabilities that stop unknown attacks that existing technologies can’t. And Morphisec’s endpoint security solution deploys easily, without requiring additional headcount and with minimal impact on system performance.”

Gartner states that: “Product and service integrations with existing detection and response solutions are essential ingredients for building the AMTD-enabled security solutions of the future. (AMTD does not replace threat detection and response technologies; it enhances them.)”

According to Morphisec findings, 30 percent of attacks bypass EDR and next-generation anti-virus solutions. Morphisec is trusted by 5,000+ companies and prevents more than 30,000 attacks daily across more than nine million protected endpoints, resulting in up to 95 percent fewer false positives.

Security professionals and industry analysts can experience Morphisec AMTD and access case studies by visiting: www.morphisec.com/demo.

[1] Gartner Emerging Tech: Security — Emergence Cycle for Automated Moving Target Defense, Lawrence Pingree, Carl Manion, Mark Pohto, Travis Lee, Rustam Malik, Ruggero Contu, Dan Ayoub, Dave Messett, 01 May 2023

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About Morphisec:

Morphisec provides prevention-first security against the most advanced threats to stop the

attacks that others don’t, from endpoint to the cloud. Morphisec’s software is powered by

Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD) technology, the next evolution of cybersecurity.

AMTD stops ransomware, supply chain attacks, zero-days, and other advanced attacks. Leading analysts indicate that AMTD is the future of cyber. AMTD provides an ultra-lightweight, Defense-in-Depth security layer to augment solutions like NGAV, EPP and EDR/XDR. We close their runtime memory security gap against the undetectable cyberattacks with no performance impact or extra staff needed. Over 5,000 organizations trust Morphisec to protect nine million Windows and Linux servers, workloads, and endpoints. Morphisec stops thousands of advanced attacks daily at Lenovo/Motorola, TruGreen, Covenant Health, Citizens Medical Center, and many more. Learn more at www.morphisec.com.

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Morphisec AMTD technology complements the tools that teams use today — it boosts capabilities and hardens the overall attack surface using defense-in-depth capabilities that stop unknown attacks that existing technologies can’t.

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Michael Gerard, Morphisec, 1 617-826-1212, michael.gerard@morphisec.com, www.morphisec.com

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