Variti teams up with Kx for bot protection support worldwide
Variti – a global provider of user focused bot management solutions and Kx, the world’s fastest streaming analytics platform, have partnered to provide an enhanced offering to users seeking bot protection worldwide. Kx will underpin Variti’s platform, enabling the identification and mitigation of even the most sophisticated automated cyber threats in real time, without compromising user experience.
Variti provides support for businesses in a variety of industries through its services. Active Bot Protection– technology based on multi-dimensional traffic analysis in real time. Variti uses this approach to detect malicious activity and protect against cyber attacks, while allowing legitimate traffic to continue uninterrupted. Powered by the world’s fastest time-series database, kdb+, the Kx Streaming Analytics Platform will enable the processing of high levels of traffic data to accumulate behavioural patterns and statistics for Variti’s machine learning algorithms. This process provides high precision in identifying emulator signatures or bots.
Kdb+ has a reputation for speed, scalability, performance, and reliability across all industries. By integrating Kx with Variti’s Active Bot Protection technology, businesses can solve their security challenges with much higher speed and precision.Through this partnership, Kx strengthens Variti’s customers ability to prevent malicious bot activity as well as get a true picture of all their websites, mobile and IoT apps, and API transactions.
The UK’s National Crime Agency DDoS attacks were cited alongside ransomware as the most serious threat to businesses. According to a CheckPoint survey, 71% of security professionals noticed an increase in security threats and attacks since the COVID-19 epidemic. survey. The number of bot traffic Variti has filtered has increased 12 times in the period between February (the outbreak) and April 2020. Comparatively, a seasonal surge of bot traffic during Christmas (typically, the period when there is an overwhelming surge) was only 30%.
These trends have led to a steady growth in global botnet detection markets over the past few years. According to Data Bridge overviewThe market is expected to grow at a 43.6% CAGR until 2025 because of stiff competition from new players. Variti has launched Kx solutions to address this market. These cutting-edge cybersecurity tools allow businesses to quickly access real-time security solutions in any environment, even complex ones, and are competitive with other players.
Konstantin Kamenetsky, CEO at Variti, said: “Our customers have a strong demand for reliable and fast databases. Bot mitigation, based on intelligent solutions, plays a critical role for cybersecurity, and we are pleased to partner with Kx to power our technology with even more real-time capabilities.”
Paul Hollway, Global Head of Partnerships at Kx, commented: “The combination of the two real-time services creates a single solution that accelerates market players’ ability to enforce cybersecurity. Businesses deploying the Variti and Kx solutions together stand to gain unprecedented speed to prevent malicious bot activity.”
It combines the two real-time services to create a single solution that allows users and partners to develop sophisticated bot mitigation strategies. This is a significant benefit for both users and partners in dealing with fast-moving cybersecurity issues.
About Kx
Kx is a division of FD, a global technology provider with 20 years of experience working with some of the world’s largest finance, technology, automotive, manufacturing and energy institutions. Kx Streaming Analytics, built on the kdb+ time-series database, is an industry leading high-performance, in-memory computing, streaming analytics and operational intelligence platform. It provides the highest performance and flexibility for high volume, data-intensive applications and analytics across multiple industries. The Group employs more then 2,500 people worldwide and has 14 offices across Europe and North America.
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About Variti
Variti is a global provider in bot mitigation, fraud detection and DDoS attacks prevention. Variti’s revolutionary approach to identifying automated cyber threats and mitigating them is unique. Variti’s proprietary Active Bot Protection technology provides a next-generation defense. It combines real-time Intelligence and deep analytics to reduce attacks while preserving user experience.
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