CylancePERSONA is an AI-based Identity Access Management (IAM) solution for continuous network authentication. It empowers organizations with security that travels and adapts based on changing work environments so employees can be productive—wherever they are, anytime, and on whatever device they’re using—while effectively eliminating insider threats.
Intelligent User Authentication
CylancePERSONA learns how your employees work—enabling their productivity while preventing unauthorized access.
Protect Against Evolving Threats
Every business is increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks, user impersonation, data theft—even insider threats. CylancePERSONA automatically eliminates the risks posed by compromised credentials and lateral movement behind the firewall—on the fly and in an instant.
Ease Getting to Work for Users
CylancePERSONA enables end users to use any device to connect to your organization’s data, tools, and apps seamlessly, securing access wherever they are, and easing security requirements when they are working from trusted locations performing their typical tasks.
Dynamically Adjust Security Policies
CylancePERSONA uses AI to continuously adapt and optimize your network’s security/policy posture, determining what level of access should be granted to any device or application at any given moment and adapting security requirements for devices and applications in real time.
AI-Based User and Location Recognition
The machine learning capability of CylancePERSONA enables it to identify behavioral and location patterns of multiple users to determine location risk. For example, if the system identifies repeated patterns of large clusters of employees in the same location, it can automatically determine that as an office or other known location.
Dynamic Zero Trust Architecture
The Zero Trust model trusts nothing and no one by default—including users inside the network perimeter: Every user, device, and network are assumed to be hostile until proven otherwise. CylancePERSONA applies analytics and AI as part of a Zero Trust Security model while still enabling authorized users instant access to resources.
Continuous Authentication
CylancePERSONA uses behavior analysis to recognize typical desktop software usage patterns to determine what behavior is high or low risk in real time. The usage-based patterns include time of day and how the user is using the software, forwarding internally vs. externally, etc.
Dynamic Action based on Risk Analysis
CylancePERSONA grants access and issues authentication challenges based on real-time risk analysis, enhancing end-user experience and productivity without sacrificing security.
Based on real-time risk score analysis, CylancePERSONA can:
- Grant Access
- Adapt a Policy
- Issue an Authentication Challenge
- Alert and Remediate
Faster Detection and Mitigation
In contrast to traditional solutions that must first send all data from the endpoint to the cloud for processing CylancePERSONA leverages and processes unencrypted, clean data from the point of truth—the endpoint. CylancePERSONA’s data and logic also reside at the endpoint, allowing for faster time to detection and proactive mitigation actions.
CylancePERSONA Use Cases
CylancePERSONA solves many security issues facing enterprises with remote employees. Here are a few.
Stolen Credentials
Protect your organization from damage done when employee credentials have been compromised. CylancePERSONA analyzes the user’s interaction with their device in real time to determine user risk. If the user exceeds the risk threshold, CylancePERSONA sends alerts to the cloud and automatically takes mitigation actions.
Insider Threats
Protect your organization from rogue employees by continuously analyzing their conduct and determining if their actions are malicious. If an employee’s normal conduct deviates from their standard behavior, such as downloading risky applications and data exfiltration, CylancePERSONA will identify this conduct as anomalous and take proactive action based on your security policies.
Physical Compromises
Protect your employees and organization against attacks where the device has been physically compromised or stolen. If unauthorized users gain access to the endpoint, the behavior analysis models can sense a new user and send alerts or lock the device automatically—no network or cloud connection necessary.
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CylancePERSONA FAQ
What is CylancePERSONA?
What is Identity and Access Management (IAM)?
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a framework of processes, policies, and technologies to manage digital identities. Organizations use IAM to control user access to networks and sensitive data.
What Is User and Entity Behavior Analytics?
User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) is an algorithmic approach to network monitoring that focuses on the activities of both human actors and entities such as hosts, software platforms, and endpoints.
Learn MoreWhat is Zero Trust Architecture?
Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) is an approach to cybersecurity that applies Zero Trust principles to an organization’s infrastructure and workflows. While traditional cybersecurity models assume that everything inside an organization’s network can be trusted, ZTA requires validations at every stage of a digital transaction when granting access to applications and data—whether users are accessing resources inside the organization’s network or remotely.
Learn MoreWhat are the benefits of CylancePERSONA?
CylancePERSONA enables organizations to support remote workforces securely. It helps businesses protect against cyber threats, easing or tightening security policies based on users’ risk profiles dynamically.
What are the use cases for CylancePERSONA?
CylancePERSONA addresses an organization’s needs for preventing damage and costs due to stolen user credentials, insider threats, and the compromise or theft of users’ devices.
Is CylancePERSONA the same as BlackBerry Persona?
BlackBerry® Persona was renamed CylancePERSONA in 2022 in recognition of our cybersecurity AI heritage.
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