Data breaches are one of the most significant threats facing today’s businesses. We work in a world where everything and everyone is connected, our workforce is more mobile, and our working environments are increasingly cloud-based. While this is an incredible advancement, enabling us to work collaboratively, remotely and effectively, it has drastically changed the threat landscape. With almost everything we deal with becoming digitised, we store and share a considerable volume of sensitive data, exposing our firms to significant risk.
Today’s cybercriminals are extremely sophisticated. As there are huge financial rewards on offer, they continually evolve their methods to override anti-virus solutions and traditional security solutions. It can be tempting for companies to tackle the problem head-on by increasing their spend on perimeter technologies. However, the more targeted attacks, that are becoming commonplace in our workplaces, require a different approach. It is no good to simply defend the frontline, if an attack gets through, significant damage can and does result.
The risk of cyber security breaches is real, and so is the fact that they will happen. To mitigate this risk, organisations need to accept that intrusions will happen. Cyber security threats need to be detected and responded to in order to minimise business risk.
Threat detection and response uses big data analytics to seek out threats. By uncovering anomalies and determining their threat level, it is then possible to respond appropriately to reduce any potential damage. The available threat detection and response software solutions, detect and respond in real time, correlate data from a wide range of sources and allow threats to be prioritised. By implementing threat detection and response, firms are ensuring they will know what to do if and when a threat emerges.
To detect the wide range of threats that businesses are facing, a new generation of security tools are required. Malware authors will do everything they can to access a firms’ networks and endpoints. The only way to be fully protected is to have a suite of tools available that is capable of identifying and stopping threats and guiding an appropriate response should they get into the network.
Threat detection and response software solutions include the following key areas, each with its own challenges that need to be met:
There’s no doubt that cyber security is extremely complicated. However, it should form a vital part of every business, ensuring that the focus is not only on prevention but on threat detection and response.