Meta Grid Executive Overview

1. Advanced Threat Protection and Analytics
Solutions for Today’s Big Data World
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2. Red Lambda— A History of Innovation
Red Lambda is an award-winning technology company that has developed a next generation IT
security and analytics solution for Big Data environments. In an industry yearning for innovation,
Red Lambda and its flagship solution MetaGrid offer organizations around the world a new way
to combat today’s increasingly complex threats.
Challenging the status quo, Red Lambda has navigated through unchartered territory, creating
game-changing technology breakthroughs to help retailers, governments, healthcare providers,
financial services institutions and other organizations combat malicious internal or external
threats to their networks.
MetaGrid was first developed in 2003 at the University of Florida, when a solution was needed to
automate how to secure and manage a campus network made up of thousands of students. The
campus network was a breeding ground for computer viruses, hacking and illegal file sharing, but
identifying and remediating each activity was difficult and time-consuming. In 2006, a National
Science Foundation grant was awarded to develop an advanced anomaly detection algorithm,
which resulted in the foundation for MetaGrid’s patented Neural Foam technology, a universal
anomaly detection solution based on advanced artificial intelligence algorithms.
Beginning in late 2010, Red Lambda focused its product and market strategies on leveraging
three technologies together as one unified solution in order to address modern IT security
challenges—distributed grid computing, parallel streaming processing, and Neural Foam.
MetaGrid was designed to unify the analysis of massive amounts of data and address the security
and operational needs of enterprises.
Today, the company’s experienced management team is leading the way in innovation, taking
MetaGrid directly to where it is needed to protect networks in the U.S. and abroad, and through
key global strategic partnerships.
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3. Big Data Is Changing the World.
Red Lambda Is Changing How We Protect It.
Big data and the technologies behind them have transformed, and will continue to transform
every facet of our lives. They can be the driver for a thriving global economic future or in the
wrong hands, the abuse of these systems can have dire consequences if we don’t proactively and
diligently protect the data contained within them.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a government, a retailer, a financial services organization, a
healthcare provider or other entity. Attacks are coming from everywhere. Nation states with
political and ideological motivations. Cybercriminals and cybergangs that are paid for stolen
personal records on the black market. Hackers with a cause or who simply want notoriety.
Insiders such as a disgruntled employee or a rogue contractor. And most serious, cyberterrorists
that want to destroy infrastructure and harm citizens.
To combat these growing threats, organizations are spending money—lots of money—on more
firewalls, intrusion protection systems, endpoint protection and secure web gateways. Yet
despite record-breaking global spending now well into the billions, the headlines don’t lie. We
are currently not winning the war on cybersecurity. Organizations are being outpaced, outwitted
and outmaneuvered on a daily basis.
Red Lambda can help organizations shift the balance of power and win in the cybersecurity
arena.
MetaGrid is our an advanced threat detection solution that for the first time, applies Big Data and
advanced analytics capabilities to the global challenges of IT security, delivering the fastest threat
and anomaly detection system on the market.
Red Lambda is revolutionizing the way the world protects itself. And the stakes couldn’t be
higher…
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4. MetaGrid —Advanced Threat Protection at the Speed of Stream
In the world of IT security, every nanosecond matters. Reaction time to
a potential cyberattack is critical. Only a thin line exists between your
ability to identify and react to a threat, and having it wreak havoc on
your organization.
With so much at stake—from trade secrets, to customers to an
executive’s career, to national security—you need the ability to detect
suspicious, malicious or novel behavior faster than ever before possible.
In other words, as it hits your network. Not in an hour. Not in 3 hours.
Not in a day.
You need to know the precise moment that something is threatening
your network. You need the ability to stop an active attack.
MetaGrid gives you this ability. MetaGrid is a next generation advanced
threat detection solution that gives businesses, governments and other
organizations the advanced technology to detect previously
undetectable threats— the “unknown unknowns”— faster than anything
available today on the market.
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MetaGrid helps you:
Protect your clients’
personal and private information
Protect critical infrastructure
Protect national security
Protect trade secrets
intellectual property
Preserve your corporate reputation
Preserve professional reputations
Protect lives on the battlefield
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5. The MetaGrid Triple Play Difference
We knew that to achieve unparalleled threat and anomaly detection faster
than ever before possible, we had to converge three key technologies into
one unified solution to overcome the limitations of volume, variety and
velocity: Big Data, advances in IT security and business analytics.
We call this our “Triple Play.”
First, MetaGrid’s foundation is built on its massively scalable
supercomputing grid platform. This grid platform is the means by which all
limits of volume, scale and storage are completely removed from the security
equation. The platform ingests the feeds from all the point solutions across
the typical IT security environment—SIEMs, firewalls, intrusion protection
systems and other data silos—and feeds them into the grid, unifying the data
and providing intelligence and situational awareness through a single view.
Next, we developed advanced capabilities to overcome the key challenges inherent within
traditional, highly distributed IT environments. For example, in order to use all the data captured
from every feed, we made MetaGrid data agnostic, so it’s able to consume all data, from any
source, everywhere, all the time, simultaneously. Additionally, MetaGrid can consume data while
it is still in motion—in stream time—without having to come to rest. This is very different from
systems that bring the data to rest before a query can be performed. Data at rest is stale. Data in
motion is fresh. It’s the difference between detecting an anomaly in 60 seconds versus 6 months.
That’s why MetaGrid can detect anomalies faster than any other solution on the market.
Finally, we knew that by applying advanced analytics, we could give security professionals a way
to easily visualize and understand the data. So we created Neural Foam™. Neural Foam is our
patented artificial intelligence breakthrough built into MetaGrid. Neural Foam applies grid
computing power to accelerate the analysis and identification of all anomalies and patterns
across data of any volume, variety, and velocity.
What this means to you is that you now have the right technology, built from the ground up, to go
beyond the limitations of your legacy systems by augmenting their capabilities with MetaGrid.
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6. The MetaGrid Architecture
The Platform
The MetaGrid platform is a supercomputing system where everything in the system is processed
continuously as it operates. It delivers all the power and control of a single system, even though
it can use every computer across your entire, globally-distributed enterprise as if it were one.
Under the hood, it is dynamically load balancing event-by-event, moving processing adaptively
around the grid. Essentially, computation lives on the grid as a mobile process.
MetaGrid’s massively scalable grid processing capabilities deliver the scale needed to unify
disparate solutions such as SIEMs, firewalls, intrusion protection systems and other data silos
so they feed into the grid, working together to overcome historic technology barriers, providing
intelligence and situational awareness through one lens. MetaGrid’s computing platform
completely removes the limits of speed, scale and storage.
Additionally, MetaGrid doesn’t require significant spending in more security appliances, security
soft ware, or other computationally-intense components. This helps protect and leverage your
existing investment in the security infrastructure you already have in place.
Relational Stream Processing
To gain true situational awareness, you have to
be able to consume all the data, from
everywhere, all the time. MetaGrid’s patented
stream processing capabilities do this. MetaGrid
delivers the speed necessary to do on-the-fly
anomaly detection on massive amounts of data
from any type of source (structured,
unstructured, hybrid, and even binaries).
MetaGrid is data agnostic, so it doesn’t care
what kind of data it takes in. If it’s data, MetaGrid
can ingest it all. The system can consume,
cluster, classify, correlate and detect anomalies
right on the network’s edge at hundreds of
thousands of events per second.
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7. Neural Foam : MetaGrid’s Patented Artificial Intelligence Engine
Neural Foam, MetaGrid’s patented artificial intelligence engine, is based on fundamental break-throughs
in operationalizing artificial intelligence and algorithmic information theory applied to
real world IT security challenges. It is the power within MetaGrid that gives it the ability to solve
the challenge of not knowing what to look for until you find it. With Neural Foam, you can now
find the “unknown unknowns.”
Using Neural Foam, MetaGrid finds meaningful and unusual events, sequences, rates, and
correlations on the fly, across any number of concurrent event streams, without prior knowledge
of the source or structure of the stream, so it is not constrained by rules or signatures. Neural
Foam clusters records by similarity, quickly and visually highlighting the outliers that are unique
or anomalous as well as reducing hundreds of thousands of records down to a few nodes of
relevant data. Because the findings are presented visually, it is easy and intuitive for security
domain experts to see the anomalies and further investigate.
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8. How MetaGrid Works—A Four Step Process
MetaGrid’s technology advances and patented capabilities enable organizations to analyze vast
amounts of network and security data so they can immediately discover all anomalies, threats,
and patterns that could pose a threat to their data assets and their organizations.
Here’s how MetaGrid does this:
Capture All Data
Companies don’t just have one giant monolithic data set. Instead, they have many data sets in
a variety of forms and locations created and stored throughout the enterprise. That’s why we
designed MetaGrid to ingest all data—if it is data, we can consume it. This is critical for IT secu-rity,
because situational awareness requires visibility at all levels; there can be no dark corners.
MetaGrid delivers unprecedented data acquisition capabilities, seamlessly integrating structured,
semi-structured and unstructured data on a single platform for search and analysis.
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9. Analyze Everything
Leveraging key breakthroughs in information science that provide heightened capabilities to
handle massive data sets, MetaGrid’s patented Neural Foam artificial intelligence engine arranges
events into clusters of data that all share common patterns. Each cluster is a compressed repre-sentation
that significantly reduces the work required to explore the data. Simultaneously, Neural
Foam classifies events based on prior learning and discovers anomalies. It then visualizes the
results, presenting the most unusual events within their operational context.
Correlate the Results
Nothing in the real world happens in a vacuum. In order to reflect the interrelated nature of the
real world, data must be processed together from multiple sources to yield actionable intelli-gence.
MetaGrid’s correlation capabilities discover deep relationships across different sources of
data. While legacy approaches correlate information using manual rules over structured data,
MetaGrid uncovers relationships in data of any type, structured or unstructured. MetaGrid’s Neu-ral
Foam artificial intelligence engine automatically correlates data from any number of concur-rent
sources simultaneously to discover meaningful relationships and interactions in your data.
Automate Processes
The ability to stop an in-process attack in its tracks requires rapid remediation. MetaGrid offers a
highly customizable, scalable policy engine to empower the system to push mitigation methods
throughout the entire IT environment to contain and quarantine infected systems before they
spread.
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10. MetaGrid Highlights and Benefits
Universal anomaly detection — MetaGrid’s patented Neural Foam artificial intelligence
capabilities find anomalies in any data, without the constraints of rules or signatures, in order to
find the “unknown unknowns.” Neural Foam finds unusual events, sequences, rates, and
correlations on the fly, across any number of concurrent event streams, without prior knowledge
of the source or structure of the stream. Neural Foam clusters records by similarity, quickly and
visually highlighting the outliers that are unique or anomalous as well as reducing hundreds of
thousands of records down to a few nodes of relevant data.
Processes in stream-time for true real time intelligence — MetaGrid handles massive
amounts of any type of data while it is still in motion, or in “stream-time.” MetaGrid can consume,
cluster, classify, correlate and detect anomalies on the fly at hundreds of thousands of events
per second. While other systems claim “real time” processing, they depend on batch processing
and centralization that brings the data to rest before triggering analysis. Instead, MetaGrid acts
on the data in stream-time, so the data does not come to rest until it has been fully analyzed and
acted upon. Only then is it stored or archived, remaining indexed and searchable. This is critical
because the moment data comes to rest, analytics becomes forensic versus preemptive.
Combines and unifies data feeds from disparate point solutions — MetaGrid delivers the
scale and speed needed to consume and combine hundreds of unique data feeds with
non-uniform syntax from disparate point solutions such as SIEM, firewalls and IPS. MetaGrid
enables these silos of data to work together, providing unified intelligence and automation within
large network infrastructures.
Leverages your existing resources — Because MetaGrid is software based, it can be deployed
on almost any common operating system you already support, enabling you to leverage current
resources.
Empowers the domain expert — MetaGrid empowers the security expert by delivering
advanced data science tools and visualizations that condense massive volumes of data into the
critical information and situational awareness needed to protect the attack surface and secure an
organization’s data assets faster and easier than ever before.
Easy to maintain and scale — MetaGrid can be deployed in a distributed architecture on
inexpensive, off-the-shelf servers and operating systems that are already widely used throughout
your organization. When you need capacity, add a server. If you take a node out for service, it
won’t affect performance. The other nodes on the grid will pick up the slack.
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11. Red Lambda — Leading the Big Data Security and Analytics Revolution
Despite billions of dollars spent annually on SIEM, intrusion protection, firewalls and other
security technologies, internal and external threats to your data are growing exponentially. The
volume, velocity, variety and veracity of information that private and public sector organizations
deal with daily has increased dramatically. As a result, the attacks are outpacing—and
outsmarting—today’s existing legacy systems.
But the tide has changed.
Red Lambda delivers a breakthrough, enterprise-scale Big Data solution to solve today’s IT
security challenges—MetaGridTM.
MetaGrid is designed to detect anomalies hitting your network faster than any other solution on
the market today—including the “unknown unknowns.” And immediate detection means your
organization can shut down the threat before damage is done.
Red Lambda is positioned on the frontlines of your IT security and analytics challenges. We are
ready to help you now and well into the future.
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Lambda logo, the Lambda logo, MetaGrid™, Neural Foam™, and all
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