The world changes rapidly, and technology is the agent of this unprecedented change, transforming how companies work and interact globally with their customers.
. In almost all sectors, the development direction is oriented towards services, applications and cloud-forst infrastructure. It is about vast IT environments, designed to support the remote work as easy as possible. And, more and more, it is about innovation based on artificial intelligence, meant to optimize productivity and provide exceptional experiences to customers.
According to ESET security specialists, the cost of this accelerated digital transformation is a cyber attack that extends rapidly, at the level of each type of business. Email boxes, workstations, SAAS applications, mobile devices, networks and other assets are increasingly conducive to potential attackers. The free guide that the ESET specialists have developed, especially to help reduce the business surface, can be downloaded here.
A very large number of companies face this time with difficulties in managing a dynamic risks and, according to some estimates, one in ten activities with internet access had an uncorrected vulnerability in 2023, and over 70 billion files (containing intellectual property or financial or sensitive information) had been exposed to a potential digital theft. According to another estimation, over half (52%) of organizations do not know how much of their attack surface is – and none is confident that it has full control over this surface area.
These conditions create a prosperous environment for potential attackers. Just five years ago, the most serious cyber attacks were transmitted through fully automated computer programs. But, as the defensive solutions have developed, the offensive tactics have also evolved. Currently, the most harmful threats are Hands-on-keyboard attacks, which can involve sophisticated social engineering, Malware Fileless, etc.
In this context, a proactive approach, based on prevention, will help for example organizations to reduce the risk from advanced threats, such as ransomware and zero-path threats, but also to identify and neutralize emerging threats before they can be executed.
And the key to this approach is to add as many layers as possible to cover the attack surface, so that the chances of an opponent infiltrate and persist on the organization’s network will be substantially reduced, and the potential damaged damages.
Therefore, stratification of protection according to attack vectors represent an essential element, and cyber security specialists from ESET have made a short guide on how to minimize the attack surface – The guide can be downloaded for free here.
Of course, in addition to covering different vectors in the attack surface, organizations can take into account the added value by an Extended Detection and Response solution, which not only accelerate the detection and response to incidents, but contribute positively in the case of proactive approaches to prevention, by disclosing in the detections of different systems, in the detections of different systems, and.amd
Moreover, these XDR solutions can be augmented by the power of MDR services (management and responsibility), which will allow organizations to reach a mature level of digital security through immediate access to the vendor cyber security expertise, delegating the supervision of the XDR solution to industry experts. The benefits are related to both the reduction of costs with the human resources and compliance with certain regulations, but especially to reduce the response time to incidents to only a few minutes.
A proactive concentration on prevention will minimize the operational costs associated with detecting threats or the response to incidents and will optimize the productivity of the teams responsible for security operations. The best way to operationalize cyber security based on prevention is through a unique platform.
The Eset Protect platform offers exactly these benefits through a full range of Next-gen capabilities for preventing threats, unified in a single offer. The ESET ELITE ESET SECURITY SECURITY can be discharged and tested for free, without any obligation, in the business environments in which you activate. It is based on the three decades experience of research and development in the field of cyber security and state -of -the -art information on global threats, to provide automated protection, without interruptions, on several attack vectors.
It is designed to combine high detection rates with a low number of false positive results and a minimal impact on resources, to minimize the attack surface and the risks of regulation and to favor the continuity of the activity.
