Media Conglomerate Chooses Lastline For Advanced Malware Protection Industry: Mass Media Company: A national media company serving a global audience Description: Media organization focused on providing business news Challenge: Provide protection against advanced threats that elude standard virus protection systems Solution: Lastline Enterprise Hosted Results: Fill void in security portfolio and protect both company and user base from advanced persistent threats, zero-day attacks, and evasive malware

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Case Study
Executive Summary
Industry Mass Media
Company A national media company serving a global audience
Description Media organization focused on providing business news
Challenge Provide protection against advanced threats that elude standard virus
protection systems
Solution Lastline Enterprise Hosted
Results Fill void in security portfolio and protect both company and user base from advanced
persistent threats, zero-day attacks, and evasive malware
Lastline truly distinguished themselves from
other vendors in the market with their forward-
thinking approach to malware protection.
Media Conglomerate Chooses Lastline
For Advanced Malware Protection
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2. www.lastline.com
Copyright © 2014 Lastline, Inc.
Media Case Study —7/7/14
Corporate Headquarters
203 Redwood Shores Parkway, Suite 620
Redwood City, CA 94065
Americas: +1 (805) 456 7075
EMEA: +44 (0) 207 749 5156
APAC: +65 6829 2207 2 of 2
The Challenge
“Our biggest security challenge is finding the right balance between freedom of access and total
lock-down. As a large media and technology company our user base expects complete freedom, so
providing them access to the Internet of Things safely is a big and evolving challenge.”
When leadership began to realize that standard virus protection was no longer a strong
enough solution to protect their corporate network and user devices from zero-day exploits,
polymorphic viruses, and evasive malware, they began searching for an advanced malware
protection solution.
The Solution
“Lastline truly distinguished themselves from other vendors in the market with their forward-
thinking approach to malware protection. They’ve provided a non-obvious solution to an obvious
threat, by embracing that most attacks are socially engineered and no solution should rely on
signature detection.”
Security teams at this organization considered a number of options, including FireEye,
before selecting Lastline’s software platform. They chose Lastline because it exceeded all of
the strict requirements that had been decided upon for network protection:
• The Freedom of Software
Lastline’s flexible software-based architecture uniquely enables organizations to
implement anti-malware protection in a way that makes sense given existing security
infrastructures. This organization needed a solution that was not only simple to install
and maintain — it also had to enable them to scale protection without incurring the
prohibitive cost of additional proprietary hardware. Deployed on commodity hardware
or in virtual environments and priced per user, Lastline’s solution afforded the ability to
cover the total network footprint.
• Actionable Threat Intelligence
Detection is only half the battle — what happens in the critical moments following
makes the difference between successful remediation or a disastrous breach. Our
customer was adamant about finding the solution that best enabled their internal
security team to act swiftly in the event of an attack. Lastline’s solution uniquely
provides the ability to link together the various steps involved in the compromise of an
internal endpoint. This actionable intelligence results in lower incident response times
and a hugely reduced risk of disaster scenarios.
“The administrative user interface is clear and responsive. The Dashboard view provides an
immediate snapshot of the sensors status while the Console and Events features provide as
much or as little information as the operator needs.”
• Full-System Emulation for Superior Detection
The feature they liked most about the product was its ability to extract objects on-
the-fly from web traffic/downloads and e-mail attachments, install them in a virtual
sandbox, and accelerate the lifecycle of the object.
“This method identifies in seconds what may take place over weeks in real-time, what that
object would do to the local filesystem, and to which any command-control hosts it would
eventually attempt to communicate.”
The Results
Within hours of operation, Lastline alerted the media organization’s corporate IT team of
at-risk hosts that were active on the network. The team was able to respond to the threats
before they were able to do any damage. The company can now rest assured knowing their
users and their own corporate assets have another layer of defense shielding them from
advanced persistent threats, zero-day attacks, and evasive malware.
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