Celerium: Speeding Up the Cyber Threat Response

According to IBM’s Cost of Data Breach 2023 report, the average time to detect and contain a data breach is alarmingly long, at 277 days. This means it typically takes about 204 days to identify a breach initially and an additional 73 days to bring it under control.

“Combining automation with advanced threat intelligence, we can speed up the time to detection and containment and help provide relief to overwhelmed and overloaded IT and cybersecurity teams,” says Tommy McDowell, general manager of Celerium, a computer and network security company providing cyber defense solutions to help protect organizations from increasing cyberattacks. “Clients can swiftly detect and thwart cyber threats using our solutions and a robust firewall.”

Celerium achieves this with the Cyber Defense Network™ (CDN). CDN Compromise Defender is a purpose-built solution designed to safeguard organizations and communities against the ever-growing threat of cyberattacks. It excels at identifying, disrupting, and deterring various compromise activities, including pre-attack reconnaissance, communication with command-and-control servers, brute-force attacks, and more. The company’s Network Defender solution is used by MSPs to protect their small and medium-sized business customers.

The Compromise Defender solution strengthens the public-facing perimeter of clients’ networks, a common entry point for cyberattacks. It harnesses cyber threat intelligence from diverse sources, including open-source feeds and private feeds. Unlike traditional methods that involve sifting through vast amounts of data to find threats, Celerium’s approach is more efficient. It updates its intelligence every 15 minutes to swiftly identify and match incoming and outgoing network traffic with known threats or malicious activities.

The solution operates seamlessly and autonomously, eliminating the need for complex integration with other security tools. Setting it up is a straightforward process that takes just 30 minutes. The process commences with network traffic being directed from the organization’s firewall to cloud infrastructure hosted on AWS. The system uses its intelligence data within this cloud environment to detect threats promptly. It instructs the firewall to block serious threats and sends the data to a portal for customer review.

This real-time visibility and trend analysis allows clients to automatically respond to threats, making it valuable for organizations lacking dedicated incident response teams – and for IT or cyber teams that are overwhelmed by the noise in the industry.

The entire process of monitoring, detecting, and responding to threats is made simpler by this streamlined approach.

While most firewalls on the market focus on blocking incoming threats, Celerium’s distinctive feature is its capacity to monitor and detect suspicious egress traffic— an essential element of comprehensive threat detection. It identifies these incidents and recognizes similar patterns across related communities, greatly strengthening its success in enhancing cybersecurity. By working closely with organizations in tandem with their incident response teams, Celerium ensures comprehensive resolutions to security incidents. This collaborative approach helps organizations effectively mitigate threats.

Instead of viewing security issues in isolation, Celerium takes a broader perspective of addressing community-wide or regional security threats. For example, when multiple counties face similar threats like targeted attacks on voter registration systems or supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) control systems for water distribution plants, Celerium can identify these patterns and coordinate a collective response. This combined approach enables a more robust and coordinated response, often essential when dealing with larger-scale security incidents affecting multiple entities.

Clients can swiftly detect and deter cyber threats using our advanced intelligence and a robust firewall

Over several years, Celerium has been actively involved in threat intelligence sharing programs, providing valuable support to esteemed organizations in key industries such as defense, retail, aviation, automotive, and financial services.

Celerium also provides training related to the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. This program seeks to ensure that defense contractors adhere to specific cybersecurity standards. Celerium plays a pivotal role in creating training materials and content for assessors responsible for auditing and certifying these contractors.

To further support stakeholders, Celerium has launched the CMMC Academy, an online portal dedicated to keeping everyone informed about CMMC-related developments. This resource provides updates on definitions, interpretations, and accreditation timelines. CMMC certification is critical for federal contractors entrusted with sensitive information. Approximately 300,000 defense contractors are in operation.

Celerium’s name, derived from the Latin words ‘celeritas’ for speed and ‘imperium’ for control, underscores the company’s mission and focus. It understands that cyber threats demand swift yet controlled and effective responses, and that’s precisely what Celerium delivers. Its speed, accuracy, and efficiency in threat detection and response set it apart in cybersecurity.