Overview

In 2017, the amount of data an organization creates and sees is vastly larger and different compared to just a few years ago – so much so that it has changed how security must be done. No longer can organizations spend their way to being protected by addressing every alert, or continually growing its security operations team. Security must get smart.

Fluency’s patented Security Automation and Orchestration (SAO) solution provides a unique approach to data collection, correlation, fusion and analytics. It enables organizations to make far better security decisions. Better decisions empower better automation. Fluency addresses SAO by focusing on the decision process. Why? Automating bad decisions amplifies them. Fluency focuses on machine learning and analytics over centralized log management. This data-centric approach to SAO means more than just making correct decisions, but positions the decision to have the data needed for a better response.

Fluency’s fusion approach combines application, network administration logs and host information stored at different levels of network protocol and by dispersed services. Fusing this data provides application, users, and host analytics, while also providing the information needed to respond, not just detect an issue. Fluency knows that in today’s networks finding a system by an IP address is sometimes impossible. Fluency solves this and many other response problems.

Fluency can be deployed as a subscription appliance at an organization’s gateway, or as a pure cloud offering. Fluency is capable of absorbing large amounts of flow data, host logs, security logs and network control logs – and then scores each security event, correlates and scopes the related log information. The subscription approach ensures the number of security personnel does not increase due to health and maintenance, as the subscription maintains the health and performs updates of the system in maintenance windows.