stacks, that are expensive to purchase and maintain and also
require a highly skilled security team to manually integrate and
operate.
The current Coronavirus crisis that has imposed a strict
quarantine on organizations and security teams highlights the
inherent weakness in relying on manual operation.
This gives rise to a new security paradigm – Autonomous Breach
Protection, a technology that delivers a full protection cycle from
cyber threats and enables any organization to be secure, regardless
of its security team is on-site or working remotely.
(Watch a webinar here to learn how Autonomous
Breach Protection works[1])
A brief view of the cybersecurity industry evolution across the
last decade makes it easy to understand what caused this situation.
A sharp increase of advanced cyber threats was answered by multiple
point products, each addressing a specific type of attack.
These threats have become commoditized, so did the need to
protect against them. While on the tactical level it made sense for
organizations to invest in these solutions, the ongoing operation
of more than 20 products – as is the case in most Security
Operation Centers – is not a sustainable strategy.
The new insight that has gained an increasing mind share within
the security industry is rebuilding the organization’s security on
a single platform, that on top of unifying all the required engines
to prevent and detect the wide range of attacks on endpoints,
network, and users, would also have the ability to automate the
entire security operation, delivering full protection without the
need of human intervention. The name of that approach is Autonomous
Breach Protection.
Diving deeper into the term, we can characterize an Autonomous
Breach Protection solution as a technology that fulfills the
following conditions:
- Visibility – has the ability to continuously monitor
every endpoint, network, and user activity, drilling down to
process execution, file interaction, login activities, and
internal/external communication. - Context – has the ability to conduct real-time
determination on each process execution, network traffic, and user
login, whether it introduces any type of cyber risk. - Action – has the ability to enforce a precise response
action with respect to the disclosed risk.
All three pillars are essential. The Visibility pillar
ensures that there is no need for other products in place and that
the platform ensures protection across the entire environment –
users, networks, and endpoints.
The Context pillar ensures precision in the detection and
the active blocking of threats. As attackers today are leveraging
legitimate software and IT admin tools for malicious purposes, it
is only the context that is able to distinguish, for example,
between legitimate YouTube watching and using YouTube as a disguise
for data exfiltration.
The most revolutionary is the Action pillar, as it introduces
new capabilities that are not part of today’s core security
capabilities. Action, refers to all the investigation and
derived remediation activities that follow an initial attack
detection.
Security technology that is capable of providing these three
pillars autonomously will indeed have the potential of
commoditizing breach protection and radically increase the security
level of organizations globally.
Register to the Autonomous Breach
Protection – The Next Step in Cybersecurity webinar[2] to learn more.
References
- ^
how Autonomous Breach Protection
works (go.cynet.com) - ^
Autonomous Breach Protection – The Next
Step in Cybersecurity webinar
(go.cynet.com)
