Code42 Introduces Proactive Risk Identification and Severity Model, System to Identify and Automate Response for Full Spectrum of Data Risk

Code42 Software, Inc. unveiled its Proactive Risk Identification and Severity Model (PRISM).

PRISM further enhances Incydr data protection capabilities to prioritize and remediate the full spectrum of data risk.

According to the 2024 Data Exposure Report, insider-driven data incidents have risen by 28% from 2021 to today, yet 79% of cybersecurity leaders feel their teams have a shortage of skilled workers to address these threats. These findings demonstrate a clear need for tools that can save analysts time through stronger detection, prioritization, and automated handling of data loss events. PRISM supports security practitioners by automatically assessing event context – a task that would otherwise require analyst involvement – and automating response based on severity through its scoring system. 

“The truth about insider-driven data loss is that security analysts spend the majority of their time triaging events that could have been handled through automation,” said Rob Juncker, CTO, Code42. “It’s more important than ever to help overburdened and under-resourced teams focus their attention on truly critical events that require analyst intervention. This takes an intelligent application of the context around an event. We developed PRISM to not only accurately prioritize event severity, but to also ensure practitioners can automate response to a wider range of risks in order to address data loss more comprehensively and with less effort.”

Through its PRISM system, the company offers a new approach to data protection. It does not rely on policies and rulesets, which cause blindspots, nor does it over-prioritize any one piece of context – such as file source – the way some modernized data protection solutions do. 

PRISM provides a manageable data protection workload for security analysts. The model analyzes 250+ risk indicators about data, users, and destinations to provide weighted severity scores. The result is an accurate, prioritized look at risk events – with only a fraction of a percentage of events on average flagged as ‘critical’ and more likely to require security team attention. This ensures that security analysts can confidently identify the most important issues, investigate fewer events, and automate response controls to the majority of activity.  

PRISM is available to all Code42 customers.

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