Secure Endpoint
Today, every business has multiple endpoints, with desktops, laptops, and mobile devices key to daily operations. And with more employees working remotely than ever before, the number and types of these endpoints are growing exponentially. The problem is, so is the volume and sophistication of threats. Comprehensive endpoint security is a must-have for the modern enterprise. It provides your business with a frontline defence that can quickly detect, analyse, block and contain attacks.
Next-Generation Anti-Virus
Fileless attacks, without malware attachments, can easily go undetected by traditional security measures and compromise endpoints. In fact, traditional anti-virus solutions miss almost 60% of these attacks. This is why next-generation anti-virus technology is so important. It leverages the power of machine learning, cloud scanning and forensics to deliver a proactive approach to preventing evolving attack techniques.
Endpoint Detection and Response
While prevention is a vital part of endpoint security, it isn’t enough. Anti-Virus solutions alone can’t keep up with rapidly evolving techniques. If an attacker does get through, you need to know about it to limit potential damage to your business. Endpoint detection and response solutions use machine learning to gain visibility, detect incidents and minimise the risk of attackers silently accessing your systems and valuable data.
Threat Intelligence
To make strategic decisions about your cybersecurity strategy, you need as much information as possible about the threats you are facing. Without support, that’s a complicated undertaking. The threat landscape and possible attack vectors are continually evolving. Threat intelligence delivers simple indicators and in-depth profiles to help you understand the threat landscape and possible attack vectors as they evolve as well as the long-term impact they could have on your business.
Threat Hunting
Next-generation endpoint security solutions can go a long way towards protecting your business, but the battle is far from over. Cybercriminals will continue to find ways to outsmart technology and breach defences. Over 70% of organisations feel they don’t have enough resources to protect themselves against current threats, let alone the new ones that arise. Threat hunting gives your business the support of a dedicated team, proactively hunting, constantly analysing, and looking for anything that’s been missed.
Vulnerability Management
However strong your defences, whatever solutions you have in place, chances are there is a weak spot somewhere. And, you guessed it, that’s exactly what attackers will be looking for. While most businesses run vulnerability scans, legacy systems can be slow and insufficient for analysing cloud and endpoint security. Next-generation vulnerability management systems enable you to analyse security gaps in real-time and stop hackers in their tracks.
Incident Response Services
Unfortunately, even with the best next-generation solutions in place, there is still a very real chance of your business experiencing a data breach at some point. A third of businesses are hit by a data breach every year, but how successful the breach is comes down to how they respond. Having an incident response plan in place gives you the peace of mind that you can limit damage, recover data and get your business back up and running as quickly as possible.
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You are most likely aware of Business Email Compromise (BEC), but are you familiar with its younger sibling, Vendor Email Compromise (VEC)? This term first started circulating in the industry towards the end of 2019 and describes an attack style whereby a cybercriminal takes over the account of one of your suppliers. However, the cyber attackers target isn’t the supplier, it’s you. By disguising as a trusted entity outside of your organisation, they can easily convince your employees to disclose sensitive information or pay fake invoices.
Nowadays, we can increasingly see press releases after cyberattacks that say that “it was a sophisticated attack, behind which there were statesmen,” which means that the attackers acted in the interests of one or more states. Along with Chinese and North Korean hackers, hackers supporting the Russian government are very often accused of attacks. Of course, we are not here to make blind accusations, so let’s look at a potential example where digital traces lead to Russian hackers.
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