Atos launches 'world-first' prescriptive SOC

SI claims detection times can be cut from 190 days to less than one minute

Systems integrator Atos has launched what it claims is the world's first prescriptive security operations centre (SOC).

The SOC, which is available as a solution in Atos' 14 SOCs globally, combines big data analytics and machine learning with McAfee security technology to bring down threat detection times from 190 days on average to less than a minute, according to Atos.

Atos first announced the McAfee partnership in November, explaining that the alliance will see it offer threat detection and remediation in the form of a managed security service.

Pierre Barnabé, chief operating officer of big data and security at Atos, said: "By combining big data, security analytics and supercomputing, Atos offers its customers the opportunity to be one step ahead of cyber attacks.

"The deep data analytics and monitoring in real time allow a unique and continuous prescriptive security.

"Our customers can now predict and neutralise threats before they reach their goal."

The prescriptive SOC is built on Atos machine-learning technology and uses McAfee threat defence to learn from previous threats and automate responses in real time.

Atos claims that total response and recovery times can be reduced from two months to just "a few minutes".