For over 25 years, Haystax has been the provider of world-class commercial software products for direct use by individuals in the agencies charged with protecting our communities, cities, and country. Thus, our product is one of the most widely deployed risk management software solutions, used by school, law enforcement, fire, emergency management, and other government agencies across the United States.

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Haystax for School Safety

Haystax meets the constantly evolving challenges of providing safe learning environments for students, faculty, staff, and local security partners by integrating all vital incident and school facility information into a single, online platform.  Physical assessments and behavioral assessments along with the ability to report and monitor incidents on or near campus are hallmarks of Haystax for School Safety.  Know your threats sooner, respond faster, and effectively coordinate actions for all stakeholders.

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Haystax for Public Safety

Law enforcement professionals are called upon daily to perform a broad range of tasks—from routine patrols, intelligence gathering and investigations to major crime and incident responses. Their challenge is to ensure public safety despite incomplete intelligence, limited cross-jurisdictional information sharing, and tight budgets. Haystax helps law enforcement agencies prepare for and respond to any crisis with a dynamic picture of emerging threats, rapid  intelligence-collection and incident-reporting tools, and a seamlessly integrated user environment that  ensures maximum collaboration and analytically sound command decisions for rapid response.

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Haystax for Enterprise Security

Haystax has developed a suite of applications designed specifically to help corporate security decision-makers and analysts navigate this challenging environment. Haystax alerts corporate leaders to their most likely threats and natural hazards, provides critical security and operational information about each physical facility, regardless of its size or geographic location, and allows risk managers to identify and mitigate their biggest vulnerabilities. Moreover, the Haystax platform enables security teams to manage incidents and major events—from the ops center or out in the field.

Equipped with these insights, CSOs can better anticipate their risks, communicate with leadership and limit their company’s exposure to financial, legal and reputational liabilities.

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Six Steps Companies Can Take to Improve Insider Threat Mitigation

September 25, 2017
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Companies across a wide spectrum of industries continue to wrestle with how to implement a well-designed insider threat program. The US government has provided guidelines that help but, as we’ve reported before, don’t go far enough, leaving the companies to fill in many of the blanks on their own.

This problem has been well known for many years now, but it was brought home to us again recently in a SANS Institute survey, co-sponsored by Haystax Technology, of information security professionals around the US. Forty percent of respondents to the SANS 2017 Insider Threat Study: Defending Against the Wrong Enemy agreed that malicious insiders — those who inflict major harm thanks to their privileged access and intricate knowledge of the organization’s systems — were the most damaging threat vector they faced. Despite that, almost 40 percent of the organizations surveyed said they currently have no effective ways to deter these types of attacks.

For the nearly 50 percent of organizations that said they were developing formal incident response plans with provisions for insider attacks, Haystax recommends the following six steps to reducing risks from malicious insiders:

  1. Know the common modus operandi of malicious insiders.
  2. Reduce false positives to avoid analyst alert fatigue.
  3. Note unusual deviations from the peer group’s baseline.
  4. Use trustworthiness scores to prioritize investigations.
  5. Verify that data collected complies with the organization’s privacy regulations.
  6. Proactively collaborate and act across the enterprise to mitigate risk.

This six-step plan has been proven effective at all types and sizes of enterprises, thanks to our patented approach that uses probabilistic Bayesian models to assess individual trustworthiness. Haystax’s Haystax for Insider Threat product runs diverse data sets through its Carbon ‘whole person’ model, which has encoded hundreds of different human behaviors based on the judgments of diverse experts. The model establishes a ‘pattern of life’ and then continuously analyzes new information to quickly discern when individuals deviate from the norm or trend in a negative direction. Haystax for Insider Threat scores and prioritizes these individuals and presents the results to analysts and decision-makers for further investigation and response.

Click here to view and download an infographic that describes the six-step process in greater detail. For more information about Haystax’s approach to insider threat mitigation, click here.

 

 

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