76% of organisations have experienced a breach within the last two years (a rise of 9% on the equivalent 2014 study by the Ponemon Institute).
Enterprises of all sizes, across every industry, are challenged to respond to increasingly complex and severe attacks – often only learning about the size, severity, and type of incident they’re dealing with as their security teams work to stop them. However, many organisations continue to maintain a reactive approach – implementing stand-alone point solutions that only fragment and silo security efforts.
NSFOCUS, a global network and application security provider, recommends an intelligent hybrid security approach based on harnessing true global threat intelligence across an organisation’s cyber defences (hybrid cloud and on-premises), and turning that insight into action – to proactively and holistically protect assets across the organisation.
“Cybercriminals have been trying to gain access to protected networks since the dawn of the Internet,” said Stephen Gates, chief research intelligence analyst at NSFOCUS. “In response, security teams implement counter-measures to try and keep them at bay – like anti-virus, DDoS defenses, intrusion preventions systems, web application firewalls, and a host of other security technologies. This segmented approach has led to visibility tools like log aggregators, SIEMs, and traffic analysers – but has proven to be a poor attempt to get a holistic look at the threat landscape. In reality, these solutions have created security silos that require specialised teams, and result in a limited, expensive and ineffective approach to security.”