Threat Hunting Could Accentuate the Corporate Divide
The idea behind threat hunting is that some attackers are getting too smart for current IT security technology.
The idea behind threat hunting is that some attackers are getting too smart for current IT security technology.
Talk about the long arm of the law!
Attack sophistication is growing. 20 years ago, social engineering had already made inroads and automated attacks were on the rise, with denial-of-service, browser executable attacks, and techniques for uncovering vulnerabilities in the binary code of applications.
If confidential information didn’t exist, you wouldn’t have to worry about data breaches.
Now that so many people and enterprises have rushed headlong into mobile, cloud, or both, it’s time to take a step back and consider your security posture relating to these two items.
Some IT security attacks start from the most innocent mobile apps and in ways that let cyber-criminals simply pick up confidential communications without having to hack into anything at all.