Jun 20, 2018   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

KPMG and Cylance Form Alliance to Proactively Secure Enterprise Endpoints

NEW YORK, June 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm, and Cylance® Inc., the company that revolutionized endpoint security by delivering AI-powered threat prevention, today announced an alliance to protect enterprises with predictive AI-based security solutions and specialized services.

KPMG's Cyber Security Services practice guides enterprises through governance, organizational transformation, cyber defense and incident response. The alliance with Cylance adds advanced AI-enabled endpoint security technology to KPMG's portfolio of security strategy and roadmap services.

"With the proliferation of cyber security incidents, organizations are grappling with how to protect their data with limited personnel and resources," said Ed Goings, Principal and National Leader, Cyber Response Services, KPMG LLP. "Through our alliance with Cylance, we can now offer clients an AI-powered cybersecurity solution that focuses on proactively preventing both known and unknown threats before they cause harm."

Cylance and KPMG Cyber Security Services enable security teams to prevent and respond to attacks more effectively, and KPMG professionals leverage Cylance's ThreatZERO(TM) services to assess enterprise environments to strategically deploy Cylance's solutions.

The combination of KPMG and Cylance's services and technologies assist companies with:

    --  Endpoint Protection and Threat Prevention: Use advanced AI and machine
        learning technology to instantly identify, detect and prevent attacks
        against the most vulnerable facet of enterprise networks, the endpoint
    --  Rapid Incident Response: Quickly deploy an AI-driven, cloud-based
        endpoint detection and response solution to rapidly respond to incidents
        regardless of network size or endpoint location
    --  Compromise Assessments: Generate deeper insight into enterprise networks
        through advanced data and analytics to quickly detect compromises and
        intrusions
    --  General Data Protection Regulation Compliance: Help ensure the integrity
        and confidentiality of sensitive data through continuous monitoring
    --  Cyber Due Diligence: Every merger, acquisition, and/or divestiture
        should include a cybersecurity assessment to identify and remediate any
        gaps that could have significant impact on a deal
    --  Third-Party Risk Assessments: A level of comfort that critical
        third-parties that access networks do not have malware
    --  Managed Response Services: Provide end-to-end support for endpoint
        protection, including strategy, implementation, monitoring, response and
        reporting

"As a trusted advisor to the world's leading organizations, KPMG is helping companies to safely grow their businesses," said Stuart McClure, chairman and chief executive officer of Cylance. "Cylance's AI-powered threat prevention technology and services complements the deep industry knowledge of KPMG's professionals, helping clients solve business challenges while proactively protecting their systems and sensitive data from known and unknown threats."

Both KPMG and Cylance are recognized market leaders. Cylance achieved over 99 percent security effectiveness and received a recommended rating in NSS Labs' second annual Next-Generation Advanced Endpoint Protection Group Test. Most recently, KPMG has been positioned as a leader in the 2018 IDC MarketScape for U.S. incident response services([1]). According to the IDC report, "KPMG customer feedback included praise for incident response communications, overall incident handling, and service delivery."

To learn more, visit www.kpmg.com/us/cylance.

About KPMG LLP
KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm (www.kpmg.com/us), is the independent U.S. member firm of KPMG International Cooperative ("KPMG International"). KPMG International's independent member firms have 197,000 professionals working in 154 countries. Some or all of the services described herein may not be permissible for KPMG audit clients and their affiliates.

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About Cylance Inc.
Cylance is the first and only company to deliver Perpetual Prevention(TM) by applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to all cybersecurity attacks to prevent the most advanced security threats in the world. Using a breakthrough predictive process, CylancePROTECT® quickly and accurately identifies what is benign and what is a threat, and prevents malicious code from ever executing on a targeted system. By leveraging advanced machine learning with a unique understanding of an attacker's mentality, Cylance provides technology and services that are truly predictive and preventive against the most advanced threats, all without the need for updates. For more information visit: www.cylance.com.

Cylance Social Networks
Blog: https://threatvector.cylance.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/CylanceInc
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/cylanceinc
YouTube: www.youtube.com/cylanceinc

Contacts
KPMG LLP
Kristen Morgan
410-949-2668
kmorgan@kpmg.com

Cylance PR Team
+1 (844) 277-4303
media@cylance.com

Bateman Group
Katie Garagozzo
+1(415) 679-2561
cylance@bateman-group.com

[1] IDC MarketScape: U.S. Incident Readiness, Response, and Resiliency 2018 Vendor Assessment -- Big 5 Consulting Firms, Doc #US43588417, March 2018.

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SOURCE KPMG LLP