Overview
Trellix Helix is a SaaS-based security operations platform designed to integrate and enhance various security tools, providing a holistic approach to cybersecurity. It combines next-generation security information and event management (SIEM), orchestration, and threat intelligence to help organizations detect, respond to, and manage security incidents more effectively.
Key Features and Functionality
Integration and Visibility
- Trellix Helix integrates with over 600 Trellix and third-party security tools, including email security solutions like Trellix Email Security. This integration provides centralized visibility across all threat vectors and deployment types, whether on-premises or in the cloud.
Advanced Threat Detection
- When combined with Trellix Email Security, Helix enhances the detection of advanced email threats such as phishing, impersonation, business email compromise (BEC), and spear-phishing. It uses contextual threat intelligence and behavioral analytics to deliver unparalleled situational awareness.
Security Orchestration and Automation
- Helix accelerates incident response through security orchestration and workflow automation. This automation is informed by frontline experience, helping to minimize the impact of incidents and streamline the response process.
Real-Time Threat Intelligence
- The platform leverages real-time threat intelligence from the Trellix Dynamic Threat Intelligence (DTI) Cloud, which is also utilized by Trellix Email Security solutions. This intelligence helps in prioritizing alerts, blocking threats, and providing contextual insights for faster and more precise responses.
Alert Management and Analytics
- Helix augments email and third-party alerts with intelligence, reducing noise and false positives. It uses machine learning to correlate alerts and identify high-risk activities such as insider threats, lateral movement, or final-stage attacks.
Comprehensive Email Protection
- When integrated with Trellix Email Security, Helix extends protection to include advanced URL defense, attachment detonation, and deferred phishing detection. It also supports the analysis of emails for threats hidden in password-protected files, encrypted attachments, and URLs.
Reporting and Compliance
- The platform offers advanced reporting capabilities via Trellix Helix, including compliance visibility. Customizable dashboards and widgets help in visually aggregating and presenting critical security information.
Scalability and Adaptability
- Trellix Helix is designed to adapt and learn, providing a smart and unified security operations solution. It can be reconfigured, added, or upgraded as the organization grows and changes, without disrupting operations.
In summary, Trellix Helix, when combined with Trellix Email Security solutions, offers a powerful and integrated platform for detecting, preventing, and responding to email-based threats. It enhances visibility, automates response workflows, and provides real-time threat intelligence, making it a robust tool for comprehensive cybersecurity management.