Advances in technology are the main driver for economic growth but have also led to a higher incidence of cyberattacks. The leading trends such as e-commerce, mobile payments, cloud computing, Big Data and analytics, IoT, AI, machine learning, and social media, all increase cyber risk for users and businesses.
Less than half of companies globally are sufficiently prepared for a cybersecurity attack, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report that surveyed 3,000 business leaders from more than 80 countries. Global damage costs in connection with Cybercrime are predicted to reach $6 trillion annually by 2021, according to the 2019 Cybersecurity Almanac from Cybersecurity Ventures. – exponentially more than the damage inflicted from natural disasters in a year, and more profitable than the global trade of all major illegal drugs combined.
Ransomware attacks alone saw a 350 percent increase in 2018, according to one estimate. Cybersecurity Ventures expects that businesses will fall victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds by 2021, up from every 14 seconds in 2019, and every 40 seconds in 2016
In 2019, Cryptomining is making up an increasingly large portion of the threat landscape, and it is currently growing at an exponential rate. They are using more sophisticated means to evade detection and according to one study, only 50 % of malicious attacks are detected. The easy profits are worth the effort of the attackers to keep developing new infection methods and techniques. These include:
Because of the various targets and methods of infection, no single method of protection will address every possibility. An architecture-based approach will provide the most coverage and adaptability. Our security portfolio detects and blocks threats present in email, network, and web traffic—whether they are within encrypted traffic, malicious files, cloud applications, or roaming endpoints. The results from our ongoing threat research are fed directly into our products. Our threat responses are automated to defend against an ever-evolving threat landscape.
Stop Threats from entering and operating on the network with Cisco Umbrella. Umbrella stops users or applications from accessing malicious web sites. Easy and quick to deploy. Direct your DNS lookup to Cisco Umbrella and we will block any attempt to access malicious web sites
Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints detects, blocks, and remediates advanced malware across all hosts. Integrated with AMP for Email Security, which defends against spear phishing, malware and other email attacks, and AMP for Network, which leverages analytics and sandboxing to stop the spread of the attack. Cisco AMP drives the ‘See once, block everywhere’ protection across the network.
Cisco Threat Grid delivers context-driven analytics to accurately identify attacks in near real time, and directs the intelligence and action to take to the network through AMP and Cisco Threat Response.
Cisco Treat Response (CTR) supports network operations teams and help incident responders understand threats on their network by gathering, combining, and correlating threat intelligence from Cisco security products, Talos and 3rd party partners. It provides a network wide view of threat intelligence, incidents and events in the network.
Cisco Email Security protects against attackers trying to use email as their threat entry point. Cisco Email Security protects customers against fraudulent senders, malware, malicious attachments, phishing links and spam. It also provides anit-virus, data protection and advanced phishing protection.
Cisco Stealthwatch, using advanced security analytics collects and analyzes network data to automatically detect threats in the network. With a single, agentless solution, you get threat visibility into every part of the network, including encrypted traffic, across data center, branch, endpoint, and cloud.
The Cisco Security Incident Response Service (CSIRS) Team can mobilize quickly to help drive or assist in responding to the incident to rectify immediate concerns, contain the situation, and help architect and execute a longer term strategy to address underlying and root cause issues.
Using the latest intelligence, years of experience, and best practices, the CSIRS Team will first triage the situation to assist in building a custom response plan that will identify the attacker, scope the incident, contain the attack, ascertain root cause, and allow the business to recover as quickly and effectively as possible.
Duo secures access for any user connecting to any application from any device. The new network perimeter is wherever an access decision happens. Duo protects this new perimeter by verifying user trust (confirming a user is who they say they are) using its best-in-class adaptive multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution.
With user trust verified through Duo, customers can continue their trusted access by verifying device trust for both non-mobile and mobile devices whether they are corporate-issued or personal.
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