Company Products Solutions Services Partners Resource Center Contact us Security Analytics & Response Orchestration Industry News: Technology Information Encode’s Cyber Early Warning & Adaptive Response paradigm is specifically designed to detect and respond to Advanced Persistent Threats, while ensuring operational survivability under a state of constant attacks and compromises Contact Encode The Problem Targeted cyber-attacks, commonly referred as Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), have become an epidemic and a first priority for the security industry, affecting enterprises and organisations of virtually any size, with compelling impacts that are not any longer unusual to exceed $100 million in damages for a single incident. APT and corresponding attacks are not a new concept, since the techniques behind them were more or less known from the early 2000’s. However, in the recent years and especially after 2010, these techniques have been massively used for sophisticated cyber-attacks. The rationale behind such attacks is to circumvent current defenses, which are focused mainly on protecting the “perimeters” of IT networks, with the objective of setting up a foothold into the internal network and using this foothold persistently to further escalate the attack for the realization of the adversary’s ultimate objectives; such objectives range from continuous siphoning out critical data, to tampering with critical systems and applications for performing financial fraud or even sabotage. With the median time to detect such incidents being more than 200 days, while “outliers” represent persistent compromises going undetected for 8 years or more, it is evident that despite billions of dollars in global security spending, mainly focused in “Raising the prevention bar”, it's still surprisingly hard to keep our corporate networks safe. Redefining the Problem Our 10 years of experience in simulating such attacks and trying to assist our clients in addressing them, have allowed us to “demystify APTs” and, at the same time, to pin down the limitations of current approaches and paradigms. A new paradigm is required, one that will overcome the shortcomings of current approaches, by tackling the actual root causes of the problem. To this end, we see APT not as a Malware or Adversary problem, but rather as: a Complexity Problem “Complexity” shows up as a critical constraint in most attempts to address APT-related attack elements. In essence, adversaries are exploiting the ever increasing complexity of the Internet, software, IT environments and business processes, in order to hide their signs, evade controls, escalate access and realize their objectives. a Business Agility Problem Retaining and increasing business and operational agility is an absolute requirement for any organization, which has to be religiously served by IT and corresponding processes. However, supporting this requirement makes inescapably “Preventive” controls, less and less effective, a fact that is exploited by adversaries during targeted cyber-attacks. and a Human Factor Problem Last but not least, a critical differentiation of these threats and corresponding attacks is that they are designed, instrumented and operated by humans and not by a “mindless” piece of code, as common malware. This makes the battle with traditional (or less traditional) “automated technical controls” totally uneven and in favor of the attacker. Our Approach – Cyber Early Warning & Adaptive Response With this definition at hand we created our Cyber Early Warning & Adaptive Response paradigm, which embraces and is being able to manage the fact of ever-increasing complexity, is as agile as our business and operational environments and addresses the human factor problem. Our objective is to overcome the shortcomings of current approaches by modeling complexity, through advanced security analytics, ensuring operational survivability under a state of constant compromises and addressing the “human factor” problem, by effectively augmenting our clients’ critical capabilities for early compromise detection and targeted incident response. We achieve this through a combination of our cutting-edge Enorasys Security Analytics & Response Orchestration platform with our best of breed Cyber Operations & Intelligence services , leveraging advanced data analytics and machine learning techniques and our unmatched offensive and defensive expertise. Our approach effectively automates and streamlines security analysis and incident response processes, providing the means to perform triage of advanced threats swiftly and accurately, even in the most complex and volatile environments. Downloads Whitepaper - Making your enterprise resilient to APTs It’s enough to make any IT professional feel weary, but what these stories demonstrate is that no business is immune from the risks posed by cyber threats. Whitepaper - Security As The New Service Tower In context of today’s Cyber Threat Landscape, the importance of a SOC that can Detect, Respond and Contain Cyber breaches early on in the Cyber Kill Chain cannot be over stated. 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