Why Realtime Security is Crucial
This article originally appeared on TechWormCyberattacks are rapidly growing as a global threat.
With more complex and powerful attacks, actors are in a control of massive amounts of resources, including username and password data dumps that can be used for ransomware, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), and data breach attacks against target networks.
Cybersecurity should be an essential part of business operations. Falling prey to cyberattacks cause loss of intellectual property and reputation damage with significant financial ramifications. Data protection regulations can impact significant fines on companies that fail to protect customer data.
What’s in store for cyberattacks in 2019?
Experiencing an attack is not “if,” but “when.” Any device that connects to your network has a high chance of being attacked. Attackers also leverage automation to carry out their attempts.
Researchers predict there will be more than 20 billion connected Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices by 2020. Without taking action, you expose yourself to data breaches, overall outage, and loss of intellectual property. Hackers exploit the weakest link to access devices and anything with access to the internet can create a vulnerability.
What kind of threats are expected?
Ransomware, data breaches, and DDoS attacks. With control over botnets, attackers can continuously carry out these attacks. Not only are millions of username and password combinations available in the black, but users are recycling passwords and hackers can use this data to breach other systems.
Attackers can also intimidate companies with data breaches or website defacement to make them non-compliant. Not protecting private information can create large fines from government agencies. GDPR fines can cost as much as €10 million in Europe, or 2% of the worldwide annual revenue, whichever is higher. Attackers are capitalizing on this fear to coerce companies into paying fees to prevent exploits.
How can companies protect themselves?
Installing antivirus and anti-malware software on each endpoint isn’t enough. However, improving network security with firewalls prevents traffic from reaching their networks. Educating staff on the proper use of resources and how to avoid falling victim to social engineering attacks also helps.
Syxsense provides a comprehensive IT management solution that allows IT managers to easily manage any part of their infrastructure. With a simple, clean user interface we have reduced the complexity of visualizing and managing your network.If critical updates are released, patches must be immediately deployed to ensure that affected systems are kept secure. Our users leverage automated patch deployment to ensure that all devices, including IoT, are up-to-date and free from vulnerabilities.
What is the benefit of Realtime Security?
Attackers are constantly examining networks—mitigation and response processes should always be running. If you aren’t tracking suspicious processes, your antivirus solution and firewall won’t protect you if your data is just an hour behind.
Syxsense Realtime Security pulls live data from thousands of devices, direct to a web console, in seconds. By eliminating stale data, IT management and security decisions are based on what is happening right now, not in the past.
If device scans are run at night when devices are offline, hidden behind a firewall or roaming, security and IT teams have an incomplete view of their environment. Realtime Security eliminates blind spots enabling teams to manage their environment with 100% visibility.
With no steep learning curve, Realtime Security’s simple to learn web interface leverages AI, and empowers teams with the information and skill to act instantly.
Why juggle multiple consoles for device and security management? In a single place, security and IT operations can understand their exposed security risk, patch, deploy software, stop security breaches, satisfy compliance agencies and more.Whether organizations are looking for endpoint security or IT management capabilities, including patch management, software distribution and remote control, Realtime Security is the only cloud-based approach to security and systems management which enables 10-second endpoint visibility and control thousands of devices.
