Protect. Respond. Hunt: Ready your organisation’s capabilities
The rapid pace of growth and technology trends today like cloud computing, consumerisation, Internet of Things and digitalisation, is set against the background of a very stark and worrisome reality
- up to 70-percent of cyberattacks already go undetected.
Research foresees that businesses around the globe are set to increase their overall IT spending globally that will contribute USD3.5 trillion growth in 2017. In terms of IT Security spending
on detection and response capabilities, the Gartner Report forecasts that this expenditure is expected to hit USD90 billion in 2017 and up to $113 billion by 2020.
This is because many organisations that have been breached, do not even know it yet. Such is the nature of stealthy malware – to remain hidden in our company networks for very long periods of
time and create chaos in small and unseen ways; these will all eventually add up over the years, and certainly place a huge number of IT environments at risk.
Cybersecurity scares in the news are also gruesome in its impact; in one weekend, the ransomware worm “WannaCry” has sent IT departments into a wild panic as they tried to counter the effects
of the worm that wreaked havoc upon the healthcare, public sector industry as well as big major companies.
Are the security measures and policies we have put in place, up-to-date, up-to-snuff and relevant for the advanced and persistent cyber-threats of today? Globalisation sees organisations extending
their operations to more locations around the world and business requirements to have visibility, control and management at low cost and low latency, have increased many times fold.
If we have been breached, how do we know? How do we respond? How do we do all this at low cost and with low latency?
If we do not have visibility into what is happening in our networks, how do we start to protect our business assets?
When offence is your best defence
Threats exist outside your firewall, but the prevalent thinking also is that they exist within your firewalls, just hiding and waiting to create havoc.
In fact, in recent times it has become an analyst-backed opinion that there is emphasis only on threats outside the organisation when within the organisation there is already a multitude of vulnerabilities,
caused by human errors to malicious actors to stealthy malware that quietly send information back to hackers.
Clearly, it’s not enough to protect anymore, and we need to start to also play offence.
“Hunting” activities like monitoring your network traffic for anomalies is becoming very necessary, as is an overview of the impact that anomaly will have upon your entire organisation. Organisations today need to have the capabilities in place to detect and
investigate suspicious behaviour whether from external or internal elements.
Are your detection measures as comprehensive as your protection measures? How much visibility do you have into all the traffic that is coursing through your network and are you thoroughly monitoring it? After detection, are your networks agile enough to keep
the threat away from the rest of the organisation?
Besides protecting, if you are not also hunting or detecting threats, chances are that you are being hunted already.
Netpoleon Solutions Day 2017 in Malaysia, will feature experts from established solutions providers who will be on-site and on hand to address the questions that are keeping you up at night.
All these expertise, knowledge and experience will converge at One World Hotel on 20th July 2017, and you are invited and welcomed to tap into all of these as you ready your organisation’s capabilities to not just more effectively protect, but also
respond and hunt for cyber threats.
Analysts
to Discuss Latest IT Spending Outlook During Gartner Webinar on April 11
Worldwide
Spending on Information Security to Reach $90 Billion in 2017
