Morphisec Launches Knight for Linux to Prevent Advanced Cyberattacks

By David Lemon.
Updated Jun 8, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) June 08, 2022 - Morphisec, the worlds leading provider of breach prevention solutions for midsize to large enterprises, today announced the launch of Morphisec Knight for Linux at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Morphisec Knight is a standalone security solution purpose-built for Linux servers to stop supply chain, data theft, ransomware, and other advanced attacks. It provides lightweight cloud and server workload protection across bare metal, virtualized servers, and CWPP with almost no performance impact or false positive alerts. Knight uses Morphisecs revolutionary, patented, Moving Target Defense (MTD) technology to proactively prevent advanced attacks. Knight is low-friction, cost-efficient, and highly effective.

We live in an era of digital transformation and cloud migration, and the cloud creates a vastly increased attack surface. With Linux running 90 percent of the public cloud and 70 percent of web application servers, it has become a significant target for threat actors. Last year alone, malware targeting Linux distributions jumped by 35 percent.

Security teams are trying to confront this reality armed with server security solutions that are often adapted from Windows and desktop environments, with well-known limitations and limited attack surface hardening. They are less effective against advanced attacks, which are specifically designed to evade signature-based and known behavior/TTPoriented solutions such as NGAV, EDR, and XDR.

Morphisec Knight for Linux effectively protects against todays advanced cyberattacks. These threats typically use in-memory, fileless, living off the land (LotL), man-in-the-machine (MiTM), and code execution tactics and techniques. Many rely on remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalations (PE) for data exfiltration and extortion, with or without long-lasting persistence to evade detection.

Linux is the primary operating system for the cloud and a significant portion of on-premise servers, said Morphisec Chief Technology Officer Michael Gorelik. And with cloud computing and on-premise attacks now becoming more sophisticated and rapidly escalating, you need dedicated, robust Linux server protection. Morphisec Knight for Linux proactively prevents advanced evasive attacks that bypass traditional security and hardening techniques. It deploys in minutes and provides deterministic prevention with little to no false-positive alerts. Knight can augment and enhance detection and response solutions with advanced protection that isnt reliant on behavior analysis or signatures for attack prevention.

Morphisec Knight for Linux is highly effective and comprehensive,' said the independent security consulting experts at MDSec, who authored the highly regarded Web and Mobile Application Hackers Handbook series. MDSec tested Knights effectiveness against typical MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques, and found Knight for Linux was seen to offer a high level of protection against memory corruption, shellcode injection, and similar attacks when used for initial access or privilege escalation.

Morphisec Knight for Linux creates a dynamic, unpredictable attack surface that protects vulnerabilities and critical assets/services from threat actors. Knight also employs modifications in memory that prevent cybercriminals from reusing attacks. And it creates a skeleton or false front to trap evasive malware while enabling legitimate applications to run unimpeded. Morphisec Knight can work in information technology and operational technology networks, and supervisory control and data acquisition systems, whether connected or disconnected from backend systems. Knight deploys in minutes, doesnt impact server performance, and requires no updates.

Want to learn more about Morphisec Knight for Linux? Visit Morphisec at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week at booth #5351, or reach out online at: https://engage.morphisec.com/schedule

Support across Linux distributions: Available for Amazon Linux 2, AlmaLinux 8 / 9, CentOS 7 / 8, Debian 9 / 10 / 11, Oracle 7 / 8, RedHat 7 / 8/ 9, Rocky 8, SUSE 12 / 15, Ubuntu 14 / 16 / 18 / 20 / 21 / 22

About Morphisec

Morphisec is breach prevention made easy. We are a leader in providing prevention-first software that STOPS ransomware, supply chain, data theft and other advanced attacks from endpoint to the cloudaugmenting next generation antivirus (NGAV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions. This defense-in-depth capability is powered by Morphisecs revolutionary Moving Target Defense technology that delivers automated, proactive, operationally simple, highly effective protection against advanced attacks. Morphisec secures almost nine million endpoints worldwide from ransomware, zero-day, fileless attacks, and other evasive threats at companies such as Motorola, Maersk, Citizens Medical Center, Yaskawa, and many more.