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Practical Defense for Cyber Attacks and Lessons from 2017 SonicWall Annual Threat Report | |
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 01:01:37 PM | |
The 2017 SonicWall Annual Threat Report, published last week, covers the evolution of the cybersecurity landscape through 2016. Based on the data from the SonicWall Global Response Intelligence Defense (GRID) network, the report highlights the advances of the criminal and the defense sides of the global cyber security landscape. For example, law enforcement apprehended the writers of the popular Angler exploit kit and POS malware dropped significantly, as the industry adopted better security practices and technology. This prompted a wholly expected move from the malware writers as they shifted their efforts into new opportunities ripe for profit such as ransomware, which emerged as the attack of choice for 2016. Read SonicWall President and CEO, Bill Conners, Annual Threat Report blog from last week for a great overview. We can track much of this evolution in the cybersecurity landscape with the mantra follow the [easy] money. In other words, the majority of attacks will move to where the attackers can make the most money with the least amount of effort. A good method of defensive security thinking, therefore, is How can I make it significantly more difficult for someone to make money off me and my network than from someone else on the Internet? This may remind some readers about the joke where you have to outrun the other person, not the bear, in order to survive. So how do you stay ahead? Go through the following checklist and evaluate whether you are an easy target:
After reading the full 2017 SonicWall Annual Threat Report, evaluate whether your current network, email and mobile defenses cover the points above and keep you ahead of the attackers. Can they make easy money off you and your users? SonicWall has technologies that can make you a significantly more difficult target by automating advanced protection and by turning breach detection into breach prevention. SonicWall Next-Generation and UTM firewalls help to look for known and unknown threats on the network, on both unencrypted and on SSL/TLS encrypted traffic. SonicWalls line of Access Security solutions can secure mobile users and facilitate proper network and IoT device segmentation. SonicWall Capture ATP is an award-winning network sandboxing service that runs on SonicWall firewalls and Email Security 9.0 products. Capture utilizes multiple analysis engines with block-until-verdict capability, ensuring that unknown malware does not get through and impact your business. Due to the cloud nature of the service, the intelligence collected from the SonicWall Email Security product line strengthens the protection for firewall users and vice versa it is a self-reinforcing, learning network. |