PREVENTING THE NEXT CYBER ATTACK IS POSSIBLE
Cyber-attacks continue to grow globally at an alarming rate – in volume, sophistication, and impact. In this era of super-powered cybercrime, the need to protect organizations from advanced attacks is more critical than ever before. Companies must use pioneering technologies in order to remain protected. The impacts of mega cyber-attacks like SolarWinds and Log4J were not inevitable. With the correct measures and technologies in place, many organizations could have avoided the impact and devastating effect of such attacks. In order to truly combat the next threats, organizations must take a proactive approach, using advanced technologies that can prevent even the most evasive zero- day attacks.
The next attack can be prevented if companies change their view on security, and follow a few principles.
PREVENTION OVER DETECTION
Traditional cybersecurity vendors often claim that attacks will happen, and there’s no way to avoid them, and therefore the only thing left to do is to invest in technologies that detect the attack once it has already breached the network, and mitigate the damages as soon as possible.
This is untrue. Not only can attacks be blocked, but they can be prevented, including zero-day attacks and unknown malware. With the right technologies in place, the majority of attacks, even the most advanced ones, can be prevented without disrupting the normal business flow.
KEEP YOUR THREAT INTELLIGENCE UP-TO-DATE
In the constant fight against malware, threat intelligence and rapid response capabilities are vital. Keeping your business up and running with comprehensive intelligence to proactively stop threats, manage security services, to monitor your network and incident response to quickly respond to and resolve attacks.
Malware is constantly evolving, making threat intelligence an essential tool for almost every company to consider. When an organization has financial, personal, intellectual, or national assets, a more comprehensive approach to security is the only way to protect against today’s attackers. And one of the most effective proactive security solutions available today is threat intelligence.
MAINTAIN SECURITY HYGIENE
Keep Signature-Based Protections Up-To-Date
From the information security side of things, it is certainly beneficial to keep antivirus and other signature-based protections in place and up-to-date. While signature-based protections alone are not sufficient to detect and prevent sophisticated attacks designed to evade traditional protections, they are an important component of a comprehensive security posture. Up-to-date antivirus protections can safeguard your organization against known malware that has been seen before and has an existing and recognized signature.
IMPLEMENTING THE MOST ADVANCED SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES
There is no single silver-bullet technology that can protect from all threats and all threat vectors. However, there are many great technologies and ideas available – machine learning, sandboxing, anomaly detection, content disarmament, and numerous more. Each of these technologies can be highly effective in specific scenarios, covering specific file types or attack vectors. Strong solutions integrate a wide range of technologies and innovations in order to effectively combat modern attacks in IT environments. In addition to traditional, signature-based protections like antivirus and IPS, organizations need to incorporate additional layers to prevent against new, unknown malware that has no known signature. Two key components to consider are threat extraction (file sanitization) and threat emulation (advanced sandboxing). Each element provides distinct protection that, when used together, offer a comprehensive solution for protection against unknown malware at the network level and directly on endpoint devices.
Core Threat Prevention Engines
HOW HACKERS OPERATE
- Email or Message: Cyber criminals may send an email or text message with a malicious attachment or a malicious link.
- Web Browsing: Cyber criminals can compromise the user’s browser (typically through exploit kits) or trick a user into downloading and opening a malicious file.
- Server and Systems Exploitation: Cyber criminals can infect by exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in any online host.
- Mobile Apps: One of the most common sources for compromising mobile devices is through mobile apps.
- External Storage: Physically mounted drives allow malicious files to enter without even traversing the network.
- Phishing: A fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by disguising oneself as a trustworthy person.
To achieve effective coverage, organizations should seek a single solution that can cover all attack surfaces and vectors. One solution that provides broad prevention across all attack surfaces, including email, web browsing, systems exploitation, external storage, mobile apps and more.
LEVERAGING A COMPLETE UNIFIED ARCHITECTURE
Many companies attempt to build their security using a patchwork of single-purpose products from multiple vendors. This approach usually fails as it results in disjointed technologies that don’t collaborate – creating security gaps. Plus, it introduces a huge overhead of working with multiple systems and vendors. As a result of this inefficient approach, many attacks are not prevented, forcing organizations to invest more in post-infection and breach mitigation.
In order to achieve comprehensive security, companies should adopt a unified multi-layer approach that protects all IT elements – networks, endpoint, cloud, and mobile, all sharing the same prevention architecture and the same threat intelligence.
Prevent The Next Attack With Check Point Infinity
In the new normal, we believe our customers deserve to maintain productivity while staying protected in everything they do. Wherever you connect from, whatever you connect to and however you connect – Your home, your devices, your privacy and your organizational data must be secure and protected from any cyber threat.
To make our vision a reality, we have recalibrated our Infinity portfolio of products to focus on those technologies and capabilities that will provide uncompromised security based on our three core principles. Check Point has taken over 80 products and technologies and organized them into three main pillars: Harmony, CloudGuard, and Quantum, with Infinity-Vision as their foundation.
All enriched with real-time threat intelligence derived from hundreds of millions of sensors worldwide, enriched with AI-based engines and exclusive research data from the Check Point Research team.