A recent report by Computer Business Review suggests that 41 per cent of organizations are planning to increase their IT security budget by 16 per cent in 2014.
Two-thirds of organizations revealed that they were concerned about security issues after seeing a flurry of news reports showing how security systems can be breached and private data infiltrated.
Mark Kedgley, CTO at New Net Technologies (NNT) comments: "With cyber-attacks becoming ever more sophisticated, it is extremely important to ensure that your IT security is more advanced than the threats against your organization." Owing to complacency or naivety, too many organizations have failed to adapt security processes and procedures to reflect the changing threat landscape where the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is targeted, designed to steal valuable data” and leave no trace.
Kedgley adds: "Businesses need a completely infallible way of detecting the presence of malware if and when it does manage to bypass the perimeter. The back stop to traditional defences ideally needs to be a real time alert triggered by any change to file structure that might indicate compromise or the beginning of the slow move towards the central core of the business.”
In the mature threat landscape, File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) must be considered. FIM is proven to radically reduce the risk of security breaches; it raises an alert related to any change in underlying, core file systems” whether that has been achieved by an inside man or an unwittingly phished employee introducing malware, or some other zero day threat blasting unrecognised past the Anti-Virus defences. Flagging up changes in this way ensures there is no chance of an APT gaining hold; no risk of the stealth attack that gets in and out leaving no trace” there is a trace and the business is immediately notified.
You can read the full article on Risk UK here.
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