Winning War Against New Breed of Cyber Attacks. Despite the over $20 billion invested in IT security technology last year, countless enterprises and government agencies have fallen victim to cyber attacks of incredible sophistication and complexity.
In this Definitive Guide to Next-Generation Threat Protection, Steve Piper, CISSP, dissects today’s new breed of cyber attacks and how to fill the gap in network defenses.
This guide will cover topic as below:
- Defining Next-Generation Threats with Staggering Statistics including Commercial attacks, Goverment attacks, cost of failure, Traditional threats and Next-Generation Threats.
- Who is the Enemy (Cybercriminals, State-sponsored threat actors and Hacktivists) and how the enemy succeeds with bypassing signature-based defenses and anomaly-based defenses.
- Anatomy of Advanced Cyber Attacks including APTs in Dept, APTs in the News, The Ripple Effect of a National APT Attack, APT Attack Life Cycle and Telltale Signs of an APT Attack.
APT Attack Life Cycle including below Stages:
Stage 1: Initial intrusion through system exploitation
Stage 2: Malware is installed on compromised system
Stage 3: Outbound connection is initiated
Stage 4： Attacker spreads laterally
Stage 5: Compromised data is extracted
Attacker covers his tracks, remaining undetected.
Introduction Next-Generation Threat Protection including what the World really needs, Next-Generation Threat Protection definition and key components.
Next-Generation Threat Protection Key Components including:
- Malware protection system
- Virtual execution engine
- Central management system
- Cloud threat intelligence network
- Next-Generation Threat Protection Explored to cover how Next-Generation Threat Protection works and Key features of Next-Generation Threat Protection and how to integrated NGTP into your existing IT infrastructure.
Key Features of Next-Generation Threat Protection consists of:
- Virtual execution of suspicious objects
- Fast-path blocking
- Malicious file quarantine
- Centralized management
- Malware intelligent sharing
- Custom rule support
- AV-suite integration
- Role-based access controls
- Dashboard
- Reports
- Alerts
- Selecting the Right NGTP Solution criteria
Important NGTP buying criteria including:
- Integrated NGTP platform for Web, email and file inspection
- Monitors ingress and egress traffic
- Inspects board range of file types
- Solution for manual malware analysis
- No false positives or false negatives
- Support for custom rules
- Intuitive user interface
- Responsive customer support