Fortscale

Fortscale is the Israeli company which specializes in monitoring of network activity. The solutions Fortscale using algorithms of machine learning, predictive analytics and processing of Big Data look for in corporate network suspicious behavior (for example when the user becomes authorized in a system from the unexpected place or in unusual time) which can signal about cyber attack or insider threat.

Fortscale is founded in 2014 by the being officer of the Israeli  service  of cyberinvestigation Idan Tendler who by the beginning of April, 2018 holds a post of the CEO of the company and also the former top manager of McAfee Yonem Hollanderom (Yona Hollander; is the operating officer of Fortscale). By the beginning of 2017 the company attracted in total $23 million investments.

History

2018: RSA buys Fortscale

At the beginning of April, 2018 the decision maker for RSA Security information security support who is a part of Dell announced Fortscale purchase. The cost of the transaction of the company was decided not to be disclosed.

RSA is going to include Fortscale technologies in the new version of the flagman service RSA NetWitness Platform intended for identification of threats and rapid response. The platform will have new opportunities of behavioural analytics of the user and the organization (   User and EntityBehavioral Analytics, UEBA) and the AI tool for the orchestration allowing to automate response to threats in corporate networks.

RSA Security purchased software developer for identification of cyberthreats in network

The president of RSA  of Rohit Ghai says that Fortscale will allow RSA to accelerate development and an output to the market of products, will help clients to increase the speed and performance of work of their centers of information security monitoring (  Security Operation Center, SOC) and also will provide to partners a new solution which will add their systems.^[1]

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