Cybercrime
has become a booming industry, accelerating in the last 5 years, complete with
automated tools, IT Support Georgia, customer
support, and guarantees for product effectiveness. Security professionals need
to enable a productive work environment while providing all of the controls
needed to protect the organisation’s data and customers.
IT Gurus of
Atlanta has come out with certain specific kind of threats which are quite
common:
1.
Enforce allowed
interactions between your data and your users: The network
is like a virtual highway connecting users and customers to important data and
dramatically increasing productivity. Data is constantly in transit, and
because sources, destinations, and the paths in between them are becoming more
virtualised, network traffic is increasingly complex. Roads that lead to
critical data stores and valuable assets must be protected because it’s not
always obvious when access is abused.
2.
Identify threats on
all applications, ports, users and devices, all the time: Attackers purposely craft threats to lurk in the dark corners of
organisations by utilising deceptive techniques, like applications that
port-hop and use non-standard ports, using protocols that aren’t anticipated,
and disguising themselves as benign files.
3.
Protect data at
multiple stages in the attack lifecycle: All attacks
are comprised of multiple stages strung together to form the attack lifecycle
and all stages must succeed before the attacker’s objective can be met.
Stand-alone security tools, like traditional IPS or Web proxies that focus
solely on one stage may fail, especially where new or unknown techniques are
used.
4.
Outsmart advanced
threats specifically designed to outmanoeuvre security tools: It’s incredibly easy for attackers to modify existing malware and
exploits to make them essentially “unknown” to bypass traditional defences.
These minor variations in threats create moving targets for security tools with
static protections.
5.
Facilitate the
translation of new intelligence into protections within security policies: The challenge with sophisticated attacks for security teams is that
some of the attack components may be completely new – true zero-day threats.
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