San Francisco, CA, 12 November 2024 – BlackFog, the leader in ransomware prevention and anti data exfiltration (ADX), today announced the launch of its next generation enterprise platform to deliver even more powerful ransomware and insider threat prevention.

BlackFog’s pioneering platform focuses specifically on anti data exfiltration to prevent unauthorized data from leaving a device, ensuring that an organization’s most sensitive information is protected.

The latest product enhancements in Version 5 are designed to provide enhanced data loss prevention without the need for data classification. This comes at a time when ransomware attacks continue to evolve and disrupt businesses worldwide, with 93% of incidents now involving data exfiltration.

Air Gap protection for sensitive data

The latest release features a significant new enhancement – air gapping – to ensure no data can leave without passing through its AI based threat detection engine. This feature acts like a bridge that all traffic passes through before connecting, stopping communication entirely rather than resetting an established connection.

This provides even more reassurance for customers that their intellectual property, customer and employee data cannot be shared outside the network.

Real-time geofencing for detecting bad actors

Leveraging BlackFog’s global network of servers to identify the destination of every packet, real time geofencing improves the accuracy with which the platform detects bad actors, prevents data exfiltration and lateral movement across the network. With intelligent data enrichment it not only geolocates the intended destination but also gathers important signals to assess the legitimacy of the packet itself.

Baseline activity monitoring

BlackFog’s AI based algorithms identify zero-day attacks in real time and monitor process behaviour, intent and data chain of custody to determine the legitimacy of every packet. A new layer of detection – baseline activity monitoring – helps detect dwell time, payload activation and insider threats. Enterprise customers can configure a threshold traffic volume so that once exfiltration exceeds this value it will trigger an activity alert within the main console. This further protects organizations from unusual activity, including rogue employees and other insider threats.

Commenting on the latest release, Dr. Darren Williams, CEO and Founder, BlackFog said, “We’ve introduced powerful new features to help those on the front line of the fight against costly, disruptive and, in some cases, devastating ransomware attacks. It’s the culmination of years of research and development and underlines our commitment to delivering the highest levels of cybersecurity protection.”

He continues, “With AI being leveraged by bad actors for deepfakes and other advanced phishing techniques, it is important organizations are equally armed with tools like BlackFog to fight back.”

Founded in 2015, BlackFog is a global cybersecurity company that has pioneered on-device anti data exfiltration (ADX) technology to protect companies from global security threats such as ransomware, spyware, malware, phishing, unauthorized data collection and profiling. Its software monitors enterprise compliance with global privacy regulations and prevents cyberattacks across all endpoints. BlackFog uses AI to preemptively prevent hackers from exploiting vulnerabilities in enterprise security systems and data structures.

BlackFog recently won the “Best Threat Intelligence Technology” in the 2024 Teiss Awards, “AI-based Cybersecurity Innovation of the Year” award in the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards, as well as a Gold award in the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for Best Virtual CISO Offering, a Silver award for Ransomware Protection and Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company in 2023. BlackFog also won a Globee award in 2023 for the State of Ransomware report which recognizes outstanding contributions in securing the digital landscape.

BlackFog’s preventative approach to security recognizes the limitations of existing perimeter defense techniques and neutralizes attacks before they happen at multiple points in their lifecycle. Trusted by corporations all over the world, BlackFog is redefining modern cyber security practices.