Cylance® Persona

Security that travels and adjusts with your users

ADAPTIVE ENDPOINT PROTECTION WITH PREDICTIVE AI AND MACHINE LEARNING

Meet your highest security standards with Cylance Persona.

• Dynamically adapts a security policy based on user geolocation, device, time, IP address and Cylance^® Dynamics^™ app identifiers
• Decreases risk resulting from lost or stolen devices
• Protects against device and app cloning and user impersonation

CONTINUOUS AUTHENTICATION WITHOUT TIMEOUTS

Continuous authentication leverages passive biometrics and other usage-based patterns to unobtrusively verify user identity. Malicious users are automatically blocked from accessing apps when they exhibit anomalous behavior. 

CONTEXTUAL UEM FOR ADAPTIVE PROTECTION

Cylance Persona provides a contextual system for Unified Endpoint Management and protection.

• Relaxes security policies when an end-user is in a trusted location and dynamically adjusts when they travel to a higher-risk location
• Adapts device security to local regulatory requirements as an employee travels from one country to another
• Quarantines devices and apps before they can be used for malicious purposes

NETWORK SECURITY WITH A SEAMLESS END-USER EXPERIENCE

Cylance Persona creates the best experience for end-users while ensuring the best security and compliance posture.

• Streamlined access to apps and services without having to re-authenticate when in trusted locations
• Adapts security and policy posture to actual context, versus applying only static policies
• Enables “zero sign-in” and/or increasing timeouts if a user is in a low-risk pattern in a high-trust location

DYNAMICALLY ADAPTIVE SECURITY AND POLICY POSTURE

Cylance Persona allows the user experience design and security/policy posture to be mutually and dynamically optimized, versus in conflict.

• Determines what level of access should be granted to any device or application at any given moment
• Dynamically adapts security requirements for devices and applications without impacting performance
• Proactively detects anomalous behavior and prevents potentially malicious activity 

BUILT ON EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE

Cylance Persona adds a layer of adaptive security to your existing UEM or UEM Cloud domain without introducing an additional software footprint.

• Builds on existing investments in BlackBerry UEM, BlackBerry^® Dynamics, and BlackBerry^® Enterprise Identity
• Can work with existing third-party infrastructure, like external IDPs (i.e. Ping, Okta, ADFS) or applications (i.e. Salesforce^®, Microsoft^® Office 365^®)
• Allows organizations to extend data, services and models with third-party threat detection systems

Cylance Persona Benefits

In  contrast  to  traditional  solutions  that  must  first  send  all  data  from  the  endpoint  to the  cloud  for  processing,  Cylance Persona  leverages  and  processes  unencrypted, clean data, from the point  of truth – the endpoint. Additionally, Cylance Persona’s data  and  logic  reside  at  the  endpoint,  allowing  for faster  time  to  detection  and  a comprehensive set of proactive mitigation actions.

Fast  Time to Detection - A significant amount of data can be exfiltrated within days of a compromise. Cylance Persona offers protection rapidly in response to a compromise by limiting the misuse of credentials.

Increased Accuracy - Cylance Persona is unique in that it includes scoring based on user behavior locally at the endpoint without streaming data to the cloud.

Reduced Costs - Because of the presence of Cylance Persona on the endpoint, all user analysis and scoring can occur continuously in real time at the endpoint, vastly reducing the amount of data that needs to be transmitted and stored in the cloud.

Greater Control - In addition to alerts that will be generated in the administration console, Cylance Persona will proactively take action at the endpoint such as presenting 2FA challenges, restricting network access, suspending user accounts, and more.