Evolution of Cybersecurity, Leverage Detection and Response

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is the art of technological science to develop a detailed understanding of threats in current business scenarios and potential perpetrators. Threats are currently sitting in the environment. IT team mitigates risks of complex threats with right tools. The goal for cybersecurity is to focus on people, expertise and insights.

There are 3 major components in cybersecurity: people, processes and technology. People must follow the same security practices as everyone else. People across industries can share knowledge about latest threats. We are technically focused with holistic approach to people and processes. Processes need expertise of experienced professionals like Managed Security Service Providers to observe threats, monitoring, perform penetration testing and conduct continuous training exercises. Strong Foundation Technology starts with the fundamentals. Make sure that the fundamentals have working processes and improve protection against unknown threats. 

Cybersecurity has many challenges including ransomware and multi cloud technologies. We suffer a great breach and miss smaller ones without advanced tools and processes. We continue to invest in wrong things and wrong actions.

Cyber threats has asymmetrical threat landscape. Cyberattacks includes spear phishing emails and watering hole attack. Spear phishing campaigns targets on individuals, business and people. It collects sensitive information like professional and public e-mails and makes use of collected data from public posts in social media and blogs. Watering hole attack takes place in websites where hackers can ambush the frequently visited websites and inject a zero-day exploit.

Improving Cybersecurity with the help of Hybrid Cloud Security 

Hybrid Cloud Security is a new security solution of solving Cybersecurity attacks. Cloud workloads are sharing resources in virtualization layer. The aim for Hybrid Cloud Security is to protect against threats across environments. XGen Security is a cross-generation blend of threat defense techniques that is evolving continuously and optimizing each layer of security.

There are 3 solutions of hybrid cloud security: network security, system security and malware prevention. Network security detects and stop ransomware and shield vulnerable applications and servers. Tools for network security are Intrusion prevention, firewall and vulnerability scanning. Intrusion prevention defends against network and application threats which protects against OS and application vulnerabilities. Firewall stops lateral movement and reduce server attack surface which detects and stops ransomware and reduce the need of emergency patching. Vulnerability scanning automatically assess workload vulnerabilities and apply protection which shields end of life systems and applications.

System security locks down systems and detects suspicious activity. Tools for system security are application control, integrity monitoring and log inspection. Application control is locking down servers and prevent changes like white listing which automates protection from malicious attacks like ransomware. Integrity Monitoring detects suspicious or unauthorized changes across files, ports, registries; integrates security into DevOps and CI/CD Pipeline. It reduces attack surface and speed up compliance. Log Inspection consolidates and reports on log information across systems which detects and notifies of indicators of compromise (IOCs).

Malware prevention stops malware and targeted attacks. It detects, stops ransomware, stop zero-day attacks and analyse unknown threats. Tools for malware prevention are anti-malware and content filtering, behavioural Analysis and Machine Learning and Sandbox Analysis. Anti-Malware and Content Filtering detects malware, stops malware and targeted attacks from executing. Behavioural Analysis and Machine Learning detects suspicious files and behaviour which stops malicious changes like zero-day attacks. Sandbox Analysis sends suspicious objects to a customizable network sandbox which analyses unknown threats and shares across multiple security protocols.

Leveraging Detection and Threats to Solve Cybersecurity Attacks             

There is continuous assessment to solve cybersecurity attacks. There are 3 ways to solve cybersecurity: detection, response and investigate. Detection is to detect malware as suspicious behaviour. Response is to respond through shared intelligence and delivery of real time security updates with the help of Root Cause Analysis. Investigation is to gain operational visibility and investigate threat severity and impacts.

Tools for detection are Network Detection and Endpoint Detection Response. Network Detection can monitor multiple protocols command and control behaviour as lateral movement of data. It can incorporate custom virtual sandbox for definitive investigation. This tool is complex with many threats and alerts. Endpoint Detection Response can do behaviour monitoring, analytics and records detailed system activities on endpoints. This tools is very complex, time consuming and expensive.

Investigation is to observe threat responses using endpoint sensor. Endpoint Sensor is a SaaS combine agent with 1 agent and 1 sensor. There are no firewalls for network isolation and protection termination with Automated Migration Policy. Agent records system activities and threat behaviour. Threat investigators are querying users to determine the root cause and threats. They build graphical Root Cause Analysis in a tabular form.

Managed Detection and Response is a new tool to solve cybersecurity. This tool gives real time feedback and monitoring in order to improve security strategies. Sensor is the Integration Endpoint Protection which can be applied to Deep Security and Deep Discovery Inspector. Threat Investigation Center is the focus point of threat intelligence integrated with Machine Learning. Responses from threats have automated protection.