Balbix enables organizations to transform their cybersecurity posture and quantifiably reduce their breach risk

The enterprise attack surface is massive and growing rapidly. There are practically unlimited permutations and combinations of ways by which the adversary can attack and compromise Balbix networks. Analyzing and improving cybersecurity posture is not a human-scale problem anymore.

The firm’s goal is to provide every organization with a comprehensive and real-time view into their breach risk along with specific prioritized insights and integrations to enable them to transform their cybersecurity posture. Balbix says, “We envision a world where cyber-defenders are able to use the power of advanced AI to build a cyber-resilient enterprise and stay ahead of attackers. We call this journey of getting from now to this future AI-powered cybersecurity posture transformation.”

Why Choose Balbix?

Security teams are pulled in many directions– vulnerability management, incidence response, deployment and tuning of security tools, application security, dashboarding and reporting, etc.

• Do you know if you are working on the right projects?
• Where are the riskiest areas of your attack surface?
• Can you quantify the progress you are making?

Balbix enables you to address these challenges and make the right decisions in order to transform your cybersecurity posture and reduce breach risk.

Balbix BreachControlTM

Balbix uses specialized AI algorithms to discover and analyze the enterprise attack surface to give a 100x more accurate view of breach risk.

Balbix also provides a prioritized set of actions that you can take to transform your cybersecurity posture and reduce cyber-risk by 95% or more, while making your security team 10x more efficient.

24x7 Analysis

Balbix continuously discovers your attack surface and understands your defenses to provide you with comprehensive cybersecurity visibility. This 24×7 analysis covers on-prem, cloud and mobile assets including unmanaged systems and non-traditional assets.

Risk insights

Each asset is continuously analyzed for risk across 100+ attack vectors. With this level of visibility, you gain insights on the weaknesses in your defenses which can help you prioritize and drive remediation actions.

100x better visibility into your cybersecurity posture than traditional methods

All types of assets

The most important building block of any visibility program is an accurate inventory of what you are defending. Unfortunately, it is quite hard to keep track of the various devices, applications, and services used by enterprise users. As a result, it is difficult to correctly target vulnerability scans and risk assessments. It is particularly problematic to cover non-traditional assets such as bring-your-own devices, IoT, mobile assets, and cloud services.

Balbix automatically and continuously discovers and categorizes your assets and provides you with a real-time asset inventory. After deploying Balbix for the first time, Fortune 1000 customers typically discover between 15% and 35% more assets than they think they have.

All types of vulnerabilities

Breaches in the last 5 years have shown that attackers use multiple attack vectors to compromise an enterprise. Legacy vulnerability scanners cover unpatched software, but you need visibility for all sorts of security issues.

Balbix analyzes each asset against 100+ attack vectors. For us the word “vulnerability” means something closer to the English definition of “vulnerability”, and not just a CVE. This includes other risk issues like password reuse, easily phishable users, encryption issues, misconfiguration, trust-relationships, and malicious insiders. With Balbix, you should expect to gain insights into 4x more real vulnerabilities in your extended network beyond unpatched software.

Visibility into business criticality of assets

Not everything in your network is equally important. Traditional methods either completely ignore or grossly simplify the role of asset criticality in cybersecurity visibility.

Balbix predicts business criticality for each asset based on an analysis of usage and network traffic. The Balbix user sees a partial rank-order of all assets in the network including infrastructure assets that the various business systems rely on. This information can then be further enhanced via input from risk owners. Balbix also supports business criticality attributes via search including queries like: “critical assets in Mountain View” and “most important web servers”.

Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

Cybersecurity posture improvement: With Balbix you can continuously observe and analyze your enterprise’s extended network, inside-out and outside-in, to discover and identify weaknesses in your defenses.

Risk insights and prioritization: Balbix system combines information about vulnerabilities, threats, exposure, business criticality and compensating controls across all assets and 100+ attack vectors to prioritize security issues based on risk.

Real time and continuous, with natural language search: Legacy vulnerability tools are cumbersome to operate, and are typically configured to perform periodic (often monthly) scans. As a result, the enterprise’s understanding of risk from vulnerabilities is typically several weeks out-of-date. You might recall the superhuman efforts required the last time you had an emergency patch situation, or when the CFO inquired about the risk from wannacry.

Balbix is real-time and operates continuously and automatically. The risk model surfaced by Balbix is usually seconds or less behind the actual on-network conditions, and you can answer questions about your cybersecurity posture and risk using google-like natural language search.

Meet the luminary

Gaurav Banga is the Founder and CEO of Balbix, and serves on the boards of several companies. Before Balbix, Gaurav was the Co-founder & CEO of Bromium and led the company from inception for over 5 years. Earlier in his career, he served in various executive roles at Phoenix Technologies and Intellisync Corporation, and was Co-founder and CEO of PDAapps, acquired by Intellisync in 2005. Dr. Banga started his industry career at NetApp. Gaurav has a PhD in CS from Rice University, and a B.Tech. in CS from IIT Delhi. He is a prolific inventor with over 60 patents.

“Balbix enables you to transform your cybersecurity posture and reduce breach risk by 95% or more.”