Gurucul Security Analytics

and Operations Platform

A Flexible Platform for

Modernizing Security Operations

Security teams can trust in Gurucul to provide greater

visibility, reduce manual tasks, prioritize investigations,
detect threats out-of-the-box, and provide targeted risk-
driven response actions.
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Business Challenges

Implementing effective security programs has proven challenging to many organizations. Security operations are
continuously measured on their effectiveness to monitor, investigate, detect, and respond to not only current threats, but also
to adapt to an evolving threat landscape. Facing determined and focused professional threat actors, security teams are
increasingly overburdened. They must contend with limited telemetry for visibility, too many alerts, too many false positives,
security tool sprawl, staffing challenges, and overly ambitious vendor claims. All this results in manual tasks, lack of
prioritization, and inadequate response.

The inability of SIEM or XDR solutions to provide out-of-the-box detection and automation across the entire security
operations lifecycle lengthens the Mean-Time-To-Detect (MTTD) by weeks or months. The associated lack of context,
expensive analyst labor time, and poor precision fosters unnecessary extension of a team’s Mean-Time-To-Respond (MTTR)
into weeks. These issues are only exacerbated with digital transformation initiatives such as multi-cloud adoption.

Gurucul Unifies Security Tools and Analytics to Empower SOC Automation

Gurucul has created a purpose-built Cloud-Native Security Analytics and Operations Platform that goes beyond current XDR,
SIEM and other SOC solutions to empower security analysts. With a consolidated set of capabilities, the platform helps to
automate tasks beyond just collection and correlation and provides a full set of capabilities for threat detection, investigation,
and response (TDIR). The Gurucul Platform is powered by Gurucul Risk Analytics (GRA), our set of the most advanced and
comprehensive analytics and trained machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. While other solutions use
rule-based ML/AI, we are focused on ingesting as much data as possible, applying a wide area of analytics and using true
ML/AI to adapt and learn to newer threats.

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The Gurucul platform is a Cloud-Native SaaS offering that works seamless and simultaneously across any cloud environment
and uniquely supports poly-cloud security analytics, not just correlation. It is also the only platform to go beyond aggregate risk
scoring to support a full enterprise-class risk engine to help security teams prioritize events.

The Unique Power of Gurucul STUDIO™

Gurucul STUDIO™ enables customers to easily build advanced ML models in-house to detect anomalies for predictive risk
scoring or customize the fully transparent and open 2500+ out-of-the-box Gurucul ML models. Gurucul STUDIO™ provides:

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„„ Full transparency and viewability of our models and how they work to educate security team members of any skillset,
and to confirm and trust the model effectiveness
„„ An intuitive graphical interface that enables security professionals with no coding and a minimal knowledge of data
science to create custom models
„„ Gurucul ML model community sharing allows for customers to share their models, where our own research can test
and add them to our platform for all customers. In addition, customers can directly access the latest and greatest shared
models on emerging threats from their own peers for faster detection and response.

A Flexible Platform to Meet Your Security Operations Needs

Gurucul offers a platform that can be deployed with all our capabilities or be packaged into solutions that are best suited to
meet the needs of your security operations. We also have a large group of supported integrations across a full spectrum of
security operations tools for ease-of-deployment and immediate time-to-value.

The following sections feature the solutions we offer beyond the full platform.

Gurucul Next Generation SIEM

Gurucul Next Generation SIEM (NGSIEM) is a Cloud-Native SIEM focused on unburdening security teams from floods of
alerts and false positives, while optimizing and prioritizing their ability to find threats and manage day-to-day security
operations more effectively. Gurucul NGSIEM provides the necessary capabilities to achieve or exceed compliance
requirements and strongly maps to the MITRE Attack Framework.

„„ Maximum Data Ingestion: Gurucul can ingest and interpret data from any source out-of-the-box (endpoints, networks,
applications, devices, etc.) without penalizing organizations due to unpredictable and unscalable pricing models
„„ Real-time Threat Detection: Gurucul includes out-of-the-box threat content, that other vendors charge for, to
immediately start identifying threats upon deployment
„„ Cloud-Native Architecture: Full capabilities in any cloud environment, hybrid cloud support, not “lift and shift”
„„ Most Comprehensive Set of Analytics: Supports over 2500 open and customizable ML models that no other SIEM
platform can match for detecting threats, meeting compliance needs, accelerating investigations and automating
responses
„„ Consolidated Management: Unified visibility through a single console with all necessary context to speed investigation
times and help analysts through entire SOC lifecycle

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Gurucul Open XDR

Gurucul Open Extended Detection and Response (XDR) is Cloud-Native analytics-driven XDR platform that improves threat
detection and incident response with no vendor lock-in. It allows organizations to use best-of-breed security solutions and
offers a single interface for analytics, detection, investigation, and response.

Gurucul Open XDR automatically collects, correlates, links, and analyzes data from all your security components. It provides
contextual threat hunting for investigations and enables a variety of incident response actions. Powered by our risk-driven
analytics, it provides the following features:

„„ Data Interpretation Engine: Ingest any data source out-of-the-box with little to no customization
„„ Open Choice Data Lake: Works with your existing or our own Data Lake
„„ Out-of-The-Box Threat Content (included for free)
„„ Advanced Analytics to Automate Detection: UEBA, NTA, Cloud, Identity
„„ Enterprise Risk Engine: Prioritize threat hunting and investigations
„„ Security Orchestration, Automation and Response: Supports any SOAR vendor and includes Gurucul SOAR

Gurucul UEBA

Gurucul User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) can augment your existing security operations program by providing the
industry’s most advanced analytics and ML models. It baselines and monitors the activity of users and other entities (e.g.,
hosts, applications, network traffic and data repositories) to identify anomalous behavior indicative of security threats in
real-time.

Gurucul UEBA is critical to implementing an Insider Risk and Threat monitoring program. Key capabilities for helping security
teams improve their security operations include:

„„ Detect and stop insider threats

„„ Prevent data exfiltration
„„ Detect account compromise, hijacking and sharing
„„ Identify privileged access abuse
„„ Optimize cybersecurity resources and productivity with risk prioritized alerts for incident response
„„ Detect compromised hosts and endpoints

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Gurucul Identity & Access Analytics

Gurucul Identity & Access Analytics (IAA) is critical for detecting and preventing identity or credential-based attacks and
implementing successful zero-trust programs. For SOC teams, Gurucul IAA comprehensively manages and monitors identity-
based risks and threats across an organization’s siloed environments. Using big data, Gurucul provides a holistic 360-degree
view of identity, access, privileged access, and usage in the cloud, on mobile and on-premises.

For establishing Zero Trust programs, IAA removes access risks, access outliers, and orphan or dormant accounts. This
improves an organization’s security posture by significantly decreasing the number of accounts that can be compromised or
abused, a critical set of pre-work and ongoing assessment that is necessary for establishing a successful new Zero Trust
program.

IAA can even help IAM and PAM teams by leveraging ML models to define, review and confirm accounts and entitlements for
access. It uses dynamic risk scores and advanced analytics data as key indicators for provisioning, de-provisioning,
authentication, and privileged access management.

Additional Solutions and Add-ons

Gurucul Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)

Gurucul’s Risk-Driven SOAR delivers effective automated responses right out-of-the-box to mitigate identified threats. This
increases efficiency and significantly reduces incident response times for the security operations team, while fully customizable
playbooks let them tailor response actions to their specific environment. Security analysts can automate repetitive tasks, leverage
contextual case management, enhance collaboration, and improve reporting.

Gurucul Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

Gurucul NTA focuses on network behavior patterns attributed to all entities (i.e., machine ids, IP addresses, etc.) within the
network. It is particularly powerful for spotting new, unknown malware, zero-day exploits, and attacks that are slow to
develop, as well as identifying rogue behavior by insiders (or attackers using legitimate insider’s credentials).

Gurucul Open Choice Data Lake

At Gurucul, we do not require customers to stand up a proprietary data lake. We support an open choice of big data, enabling
you to use your existing data lake to reduce costs. If you don’t have a data lake, Gurucul will provide you with one for free to
use with any Gurucul product, built on platform agnostic architecture, to efficiently handle the security analytics of even the
largest enterprise environments.

The Underlying Platform: Gurucul Risk Analytics™

Gurucul Risk Analytics™ (GRA) is the underlying platform that powers the entire suite of Gurucul products. GRA offers the
most comprehensive set of advanced security analytics that goes beyond traditional rule-based and pattern-based detection.
Based on our big data and a trained ML and enterprise-class risk engine, GRA predicts, prioritizes, detects, and responds to
active attack campaigns with the following analytics:

„„ Log Analytics: Traditional SIEM-based log correlation and analytics

„„ Endpoint Analytics: Capture and analyze endpoint telemetry including from A/V and EDR
„„ Network Traffic Analysis: Identify network threats using machine learning on NetFlow and packet data
„„ Cloud Analytics: Visibility, automated correlation, and threat detection across multi-cloud environments
„„ IoT Analytics: Identify, correlate, and detect threats targeting IoT/ICS infrastructure
„„ Identity and Access Analytics: Monitor for and detect Zero-Trust privileged access risks, misuse, and credential theft
„„ User Behavior Analytics: Model the behavior of users on and highlights anonymous behavior that could be a
cyberattack (often combined with Entity Analytics for UEBA)
„„ Entity Behavior Analytics: Detect complex attacks across infrastructure devices (often combined with User Analytics
for UEBA)

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The Most Comprehensive and Advanced Set of Security Analytics In the Market

Identity Access
Monitor for and Detect Zero-Trust Privileged
Access risks, misuse, and credential theft

Cloud
Visibility, Automated Correlation IoT
and Threat Detection across Identify, Correlate and extract Security
Multi-Cloud Environments Metadata to identify Threats targeting
IoT/ICS Infrastructure

Log
Traditional SIEM-based Log
Gurucul User Behavior
Correlation and Analytics Risk Model the behavior of users on and
Analytics highlights anonymous behavior that
could be the sign of a cyberattack
(often combined with Entity Analytics
for UEBA)

Endpoint
Capture and analyze Entity Behavior
endpoint telemetry including
from A/V and EDR Detect complex attacks across
infrastructure devices (often combined
with User Analytics for UEBA)
Network Traffic
Identify Unknown Network Threats Using
Machine Learning on NetFlow and Packet Data

Why Choose Gurucul?

A Truly Cloud-Native SOC Platform that Scales with Your Business

„„ Eliminate tradeoffs between visibility and licensing costs by charging based Comprehensive MITRE
on user/entity, not data ingestion. ATT&CK Framework
Coverage
The Most Comprehensive Analytics and Self-Learning ML/AI
The Gurucul Platform
„„ Leverage out-of-the-box included Threat content, over 2500+ transparent and
aligns our ML models with
customizable ML Models, and widest-breadth of analytics.
the MITRE ATT&CK
Trusted and Transparent Automation Across Ingestion, Correlation, Detection, Frameworks to deliver
Prioritization, Investigation, and Response comprehensive coverage
(83%) across all three
„„ Reduce prolonged manual efforts and deliver risk-driven context that lowers frameworks: PreATT&CK,
MTTD and MTTR from weeks or months to minutes and hours. Enterprise, and Mobile.

In Conclusion

Gurucul is the platform of choice to modernize, consolidate, automate, and

optimize your security operations based on your digital transformation objectives.
The Gurucul Platform is powered by the most comprehensive set of open security
analytics, machine learning that provides complete visibility to security teams,
reduces noise and false positives, reduces MTTD, prioritizes investigations and accelerates MTTR. Through licensing that
meets your scalability requirements, complete data ingestion and adaptable machine learning analytical models, Gurucul
does not suffer the pitfalls of the majority of XDR and SIEM solutions. All our best-of-breed capabilities are built for the cloud
and have proven to reduce both capital and operational costs for our small, medium, enterprise and Managed Detection and
Response clients.

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How Does the Gurucul Platform Compare?

Gurucul has spent years building a platform focused on today’s customer needs, while constantly partnering with them to
build out the right set of capabilities that aligns with their business and security vision. We concentrate on digital
transformation trends and the overall threat landscape. Based on our leaning forward philosophy, we have created a set of
capabilities that meets and often exceeds the requirements of prospects and clients. Below is a high-level overview of how
we compare to other typical SOC solutions.

Gurucul
Capability SOC SIEM XDR Comment
Platform
Cloud-native, highly scalable, open Not lifted/shifted. Native support for
architecture AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.
Included Out-of-The-Box (OOTB) Powered by Threat Intel, analytics and
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Threat Content machine learning (ML)
Full library of 3rd-party integrations 400+, including threat intel feeds, user/
for data ingestion/enrichment accounts, etc.
Native support for AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.
Multi-cloud Analytics
Cross-Cloud Analytics
Identity Security and Privileged Complete analytics versus just Active
Access Analytics (for ITDR) Directory Correlation

Network Traffic Analytics (NTA) Focus on complete security stack vs. EDR

User and Entity Behavior Analytics Complete baselining, monitoring with

(UEBA) supporting ML models
Insider Risk and Threat Analytics and An Internal risk or threat often becomes
Monitoring Capable and external one
Full library of ML based models/ 2500+, mapped to industry, security
analytics frameworks, etc.
Open/customizable/trained ML Create, customize, crowdsourced ML-
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models/analytics based analytics
Risk engine/scoring vs. aggregated CVE/
Risk-prioritized alerting
CVSS scores
Full library of compliance reporting Dashboards, reports, queries, alerts

Full library of response playbooks Library of out-of-the-box playbooks

Customizable response playbooks Many SIEMS lack support

Full Multi-Tenancy, Policy Control Purpose-built versus just UI-driven

and Data Segregation changes
Full vs. partial support for RBAC (On-
RBAC & data masking capabilities
prem vs SaaS), data masking
Flexible but uniform deployment SaaS, on-prem, hybrid cloud, in-region
options cloud (loss of feature set
Consolidated views with optional Reduces investigation time and seamless
license for add-on features feature turn-up
Predictable and scalable licensing
By user/entity vs. data ingestion
model

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About Gurucul
Gurucul is a global cyber security company that is changing the way organizations protect their most valuable assets, data and
information from insider and external threats both on-premises and in the cloud. Gurucul’s real-time Cloud-NativeSecurity
Analytics and Operations Platform provides customers with Next Generation SIEM, XDR, UEBA, and Identity Analytics in a
single unified platform. It combines machine learning behavior profiling with predictive risk-scoring algorithms to predict, prevent,
and detect breaches. Gurucul technology is used by Global 1000 companies and government agencies to fight cybercrimes, IP
theft, insider threat and account compromise as well as for log aggregation, compliance and risk-based security orchestration
and automation for real-time extended detection and response. The company is based in Los Angeles. To learn more, visit
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