Security Insights: Defending Against Automated Threats

  • 22 September 2014
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By Wade Williamson on September 22, 2014
 
Information security teams have the largely thankless responsibility of simultaneously keeping pace with trends in enterprise computing as well as the latest innovations from criminals and attackers.
Beneficial megatrends such as the rise of cloud and mobile computing are relatively obvious because they bring value to the enterprise and their employees in form of reduced costs and the promise of improved productivity. Over the past few years, most security teams have put considerable effort into adapting to these massive changes in the enterprise.
However, progress happens for the bad guys too. As we build more accessible, scalable, and efficient computing models, we likewise open ourselves up to attacks that are likewise more accessible, scalable and efficient. This is the realm of automated attacks. In the same way that automation has transformed traditional industries, automation is transforming the economy of cyber attackers, and rewriting the rules of enterprise risk in the process.
Automated attacks are cheap, tireless, and can target virtually any functionality that we expose to our end-users. Because of their reach, these attacks become both highly probable and enormous in scale. This makes understanding automated threats essential in order to understand IT and enterprise risk.
 
SecurityWeek/ full article here/ http://www.securityweek.com/security-insights-defending-against-automated-threats

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